Highlander gets the reboot treatment possibly with Ryan Reynolds

[Meule]

How about picking a...Scottish actor for this part?

Dude, where do you get these weird ideas from? A Scotsman played by a Scotsman...Hollywood won't have it

And Queen friggin ROCKS

[JediJaida]

Amen to that.

There's nothing wrong with picking a Scottish actor to play the part of a Scottish Immortal.

But he'd need to be intelligible, with a light accent.

If someone Scottish gets picked and has one of those REALLY heavy accents, I don't see the movie succeeding.

And there are Highlands in more than one country; like Spain, France, etc.

It's just that the Highlands we are most familiar with are those of Scotland.

I'd like to see a Highlander from the Highlands of say Northern Spain.

After all, the Gauls, who were the predecessors of modern Spaniards, also explored the British Isles in the FAR distant past, and became the Gaels.

[ctc]

Hmmmm....

*fingers crossed* wacky comedy.... wacky comedy.... wacky comedy....

Don C.

[Bruce Banner]

How about picking a...Scottish actor for this part?

Lots of folk have expressed their desire to see Gerard Butler in the role.
It wouldn't be a bad choice, to be honest.
Oh well.

[EMCE Hammer]

The thought of Ryan Reynolds living forever doesn't do much for me.

[pmjlghrs]

Has anyone ever found the complete Queen track of New York, New York from Highlander?

[Gorn Captain]

Lots of folk have expressed their desire to see Gerard Butler in the role.
It wouldn't be a bad choice, to be honest.
Oh well.

Yeah, that's what I thought. He'd be great.
Wasn't he going to play Snake Plissken in the Escape remake?

[toys2cool]

Lots of folk have expressed their desire to see Gerard Butler in the role.
It wouldn't be a bad choice, to be honest.
Oh well.

now that's more like it

[torgospizza]

Lots of folk have expressed their desire to see Gerard Butler in the role.

Gerard Butler's an awesome actor, but for the converse of the reason he'd be good in this role--being Scottish, namely--it really irritated me when he was cast as Beowulf in Beowulf & Grendel. Why cast a Scot as a Geat? He didn't even try to hide his accent. In fact, I'm not sure he can fake any other accents--he sounded pretty Scottish as a Spartan, too. Also, I think he and Ewan McGregor might be too old to play MacLeod in a reboot, though--maybe 10 or 12 years ago. Actually, James McAvoy is both a Scot and about the right age.

[Bruce Banner]

Wasn't he going to play Snake Plissken in the Escape remake?

Yes, and he almost signed up for it. But he bowed out, and now they're saying it might be Jeremy Renner.

Also, I think he and Ewan McGregor might be too old to play MacLeod in a reboot, though--maybe 10 or 12 years ago.

Butler's age doesn't worry me.

In the original movie, MacLeod was "killed" by the Kurgan at the age of 18, and as immortals stop ageing when they initially "die", Lambert was technically way too old to play the character, too.

They could simply have him "die" at a later age in the reboot, anyway.