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‘John Wick’ Director on How His Henry Cavill ‘Highlander’ Reboot Will Feel Like Prequel (www.hollywoodreporter.com)

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Talking to the Happy Sad Confused podcast, the John Wick director suggested his approach to the new film in development will be to launch a potential series of films. He says the idea is to not rush the first movie to the original film’s conclusion — which crowned MacLeod the sole survivor of a group of dueling immortals following their climactic Gathering.

“I think we have some very good elements now,” he said. “The trick is when you have the tagline, ‘There can only be one,’ you can’t just kill everybody the first time.”

Stahelski also said the film will incorporate elements of the 1992 syndicated Highlander TV series, which ran for six seasons.

“Our story engages a lot of the same characters, but we’ve also brought in elements of all the TV shows,” Stahelski said. “We’re trying to do a bit of a prequel — a setup to The Gathering — so we have room to grow the property.”

He noted he hasn’t thought of John Wick as a franchise (despite that Continental TV show coming) but he does see Highlander as a potential franchise.

“We have ideas for days for the coolest characters [that could make for] an epic TV show,” he said. “I just think that’s rich mythology when you can pick any period of 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 fucking cool.”

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[–] Bizarroland@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I'm just sick and fucking tired of reboots. I get it because it's like an opportunity for millennials to share their childhood with Gen z and Gen alpha and so of course it's going to make money because it's running off that nostalgia bank but what the fuck are people going to be nostalgic about in 20 years from now?

I mean, they're not getting any original material to build happy memories to, and 40 years from now all is going to happen is the last surviving millennials will be arguing with Gen beta how the third reboot of Spider-Man was the best one and they're going to say no the 7th reboot is obviously the best one, you don't even fucking know what you're talking about old man

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I agree, but it was such a great idea and an excellent movie. Too bad there were no sequels.

[–] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Every time a studio comes up with a new idea and original movie, the fanboys shit on it and nobody sees it in theater. So original movies are a risk.