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The original 1986 movie starred Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery, and Clancy Brown, which explored a world in which immortals were hunting each other down in contemporary New York City, with the origins of these warriors going back centuries. That debut film earned itself four sequels, as well as inspired multiple TV series, animated projects, and comic book expansions.
Part of the reason the movie was difficult to develop was that Stahelski wasn’t merely hoping to recreate the events of the original movie, but also because his goal is to honor all corners of the beloved mythology.
“I think we have some very good elements now. The trick is, when you have the tagline, ‘There can be only one,’ you can’t just kill everybody the first time,” Stahleski shared with the Happy Sad Confused podcast earlier this year. “I’ll say it for you first, our story engages a lot of the same characters and stuff like that, but we’ve also brought in elements of all the TV shows, and we’re trying to do a bit of a prequel, a setup to The Gathering, so we have room to grow the property.”
He continued, “Highlander, I can tell you right now, if we’ve got our sh-t together and pull off a feature, we’ve got ideas for days about how to make the coolest characters and make that an epic TV show. I just think that’s a rich, rich, rich mythology. You can pick any period in time, any nationality, any culture, any type of person and make them an immortal that have to duel and deal with the burden of immortality? That’s f-cking cool to me.”
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