A new Highlander is another cool movie coming from Summit Entertainment.

Summit Entertainment has been coming out with some seriously cool shit lately. A beloved movie of mine is the first Highlander film starring Christopher Lambert.

As reported from a press release on Collider:

Highlander will be directed by Justin Lin from a screenplay written by Art Marcum and Matt Holloway.  Neal H. Mortiz and Peter Davis will produce the project.  RCR Media Group’s principles Rui Costa Reis and Eliad Josephson will serve as executive producers on the film.  Summit acquired the rights to remake the classic from Davis – Panzer Productions, Inc. in May of 2008.

Highlander is a great little action movie and has “the eighties” all over it. The movie is outdated and really does need a great reboot and will make an excellent lowish-budget movie. It has a great mythology and now that Freddy Mercury is dead, I don’t think the movie will feature a ridiculous rock-inspired soundtrack. Queen might be my favorite rock group of all time, but c’mon, those song just didn’t fit in a fantasy, action movie. Did they?

I’ve seen the T.V series and the movies except the infamous second film, The Quickening. Someday I will dig up a copy on Netflix or ask around to see if any of my buddies have a copy. I’ve heard it is real bad, but I don’t buy it. It looks fucking cool.

Highlander trailer: It is still pretty cool – even these days.

-Collin