The filmmaker detailed the concepts he wants to fully explore in the reboot.
With the Highlander franchise spanning multiple movies, TV shows, animated series, comics, and other mediums, there's a lot of lore that has already been explored in the concept, with different elements resonating with different audiences. For the upcoming reboot of the premise from director Chad Stahelski, one of the key concepts will be the idea of immortality, with the filmmaker expressing how those ideas will offer"existential" storytelling opportunities in his revival.
"If you're a fan at all, you know about the TV shows and the mythology there, the things that worked in the feature aspect of the franchise, what didn't. I would like to think that it has -- I guess, I hope I'm bringing to it the realization of the potential that we all see in that franchise," Stahleski expressed to Screen Rant."Now, we probably don't love all the other ancillary stuff that's come out of it, but we love the potential of it.
He continued,"I think that franchise with the mythology of people going through the centuries, and the burden of immortality as much as the wish fulfillment of immortality, you know, how you relate to people you love and don't love, both mortal and immortal, and what you can do with that is some of the most romantic, interesting, existential stuff I've ever seen.
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.
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