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 Lionsgate’s
reboot of the Highlander franchise is finally moving forward thanks to a new
script from Colony co-creator Ryan Condal. The project has been in development
on and off for a decade but is set to begin pre-production later this year. The
film will be directed by John Wick Chapter 3’s Chad Stahelski. He recently told
Collider: "Highlander is an interesting property. It’s through Lionsgate as well
and Neal Moritz. We’re trying to get it done. Anyone who knows anything about
the property knows it has a lot of meat to it. It’s a good property. It’s got a
lot of potential. We’re just trying to figure out the best way not to f–k it up.
Not to try and fit it into a 1 hour, 45 minute movie, which, when your pitch is,
‘There can be only one,’ and in your first movie you kill everybody but the one,
sequels have a problem of happening. So we’re trying to design in a way that
gives us a little more lead in, a little more time with the mythology and see
some of the best characters. They did seven seasons of TV, and even though the
TV show may not hold up today, the idea of it and the characters they brought in
were super cool. So we’re trying to devise a methodology that leads up to The
Quickening." He doesn’t have an issue of the film being in theaters or on the
streaming or premium cable realm if it’s the right fit for the story he wants to
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