In 2008, Summit Entertainment purchased the film rights to Highlander, with plans of rebooting the franchise. Soon they hired Iron Man screenwriters Art Marcum and Matt Holloway. The following year they selected Fast & Furious director Justin Lin, but dropped out due to other projects. Lin, was replaced by 28 Weeks Later director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, but he too would leave the project, citing creative differences. Along that journey, Ryan Reynolds named was attached to star, but he too exited the Highlander reboot. That brings us up to speed.
Today, Deadline is reporting that Cedric Nicolas-Troyan has landed the directing gig. The Highlander reboot will be his directorial debut. He is known for his visual effects work on The Ring, One Hour Photo, and Snow White and the Huntsman, where he also served as a second unit director.
“I have been working on my pitch for this since the summer, and when I got there I met the original producer and I just started geeking out and he loved it,” Nicolas-Troyan told Mike Fleming Jr.. “The first movie came out when I was a teenager in France and it was one of my favorite films of those years. I loved the series also, they shot a lot of it in France, on the Seine River. My first reaction, like everybody else, was, really, do we need a remake? Then I read the script, and I thought about how Russell Mulcahy was this super visual video director who brought the pulse of the 80s to the film so well. I started thinking about taking those great characters and matching them with a modern, visceral take, and then I was in love with the idea and I just went for it.”
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