HIGHLANDER Director Chad Stahelski Teases Henry Cavill-Led Reboot: "We're Trying To Do A Bit Of A Prequel"

@CoHost - *spits coffee* Commence the jiggling...

@dagenspear - Yeah I almost prefer him to play Kurgan or Ramirez to McCloud if they go that route.

@Origame - Totally agree. I think the thing is that back in the 80s and such, filmmakers weren't thinking in the terms of sequels, trilogies, prequels, cinematic universes, etc. like a lot seem to be doing today. Hell, when pretty much everything back then was an original idea and not a remake, they had no idea if the first movie would even be successful, much less warrant a follow up. So they typically made them self-contained (like the OG "Highlander" film) and when it IS decided to make a sequel (and more) they have to really struggle to come up with something new because they pretty much blew their creative load with the first movie.

Nowadays a lot of properties are being imagined as franchises from the get-go, especially if they are reboots of popular older franchises (like this one). So they end up taking the original movie and its premise and stretching it out over a trilogy or more. As an example, I remember when the "Robocop" reboot was being made, the director (José Padilha) talking about how it was to focus on his process of becoming Robocop (presumably with sequels in mind), whereas the OG movie didn't really spend too much time on all that because presumably sequels weren't presumed then.

Hell, they're supposed to be rebooting "Gremlins" and I wouldn't be surprised if it's being planned as a darker trilogy where the first half of the first movie focuses on Gizmo popping off the other mogui and their slow decent into evil and ultimate transformation into gremlins who unleash hell on the world, only to be picked up on the second movie (which of course takes place 5 years later) where we live in a dystopian society ruled but hordes of gremlins, only have Gizmo return from a self-imposed exile in the mountains of Tibet who uses his knowledge of making boobytraps from watching the "Home Alone" movies to single-handedly defeat the gremlin forces. Actually, we need to sell some toys, damn it, so scratch that last part. Gizmo returns from a self-imposed exile in the mountains of Tibet and spawns AN ARMY of good mogui who uses THEIR knowledge of making boobytraps from watching the "Home Alone" movies to defeat the gremlin forces.

There you go. Even if the first movie tanks, the merch will save it.

@WEAPONXOXOXO - That's a really good choice. I like Cavill, but am starting to sour on him as a leading man. He is fairly flat in him performances a lot of the time.