Highlander 5: The Source -- IN PRODUCTION

[thewayne]

I was going through my laptop's bookmarks tonight looking for a specific link, which I did not find, and came across the Adrian Paul web site. It had been quite a while since I'd been there, so I decided to pull it up.

I was quite surprised to see yet another Highlander movie being made. I'm curious if it, too, will follow the grand and glorious tradition of most of the previous films and run out of money before production is complete and be taken over by the insurerers.

http://www.adrianpaul.net/current/thesource.shtml


The first movie was fun.

The second movie sucked, but there were specific reasons for it. The main problem was that they ran out of money and the production was taken over by the insurers, who slapped together a movie for release so they could make some money back. According to the DVD release, the story actually made sense, it was just completed poorly.

The third movie, IMO, sucked, because it was just a remake of the first. There were a few things that were cool, but it still wasn't much more of a remake of #1.

The fourth movie. Hmmm. I enjoyed it in that it had a considerably more complex story than we'd seen in a long time. It's been a while since I saw it, so I think I'm going to have to pass on providing an opinion for it. I think overall that I liked it.

I was a huge fan of the TV show, followed it until the bitter end. I'll definitely see this flic, which, BTW, has both Dawson and Methos returning.

Comments

[greyweirdo.livejournal.com]

I liked the fourth, even though it wasn't as good as it could have been. Apperently all the Highlander movies have had major disruptions and were disaterous shoots. Even four had a lot of problems in the shooting and stuff.

I will go see this new movie, even if it's terrible I will go see it.

[deborak]

Sounds promising. I always liked the characters of Methos and Dawson. I didn't follow it in the later seasons (didn't it spin off into something with a female character?)

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

They tried something called Highlander: The Raven starring Amanda, the high-class thief that was always arguing/fighting with Duncan. It lasted one season and was quite bad.

I'll write a full blog post on it later. I'd actually forgotten about the show! And IIRC, I also stopped watching it, it was THAT bad, and I'm a huge Highlander junkie.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0144714

[magic-rat.livejournal.com]

Fortunately, I've forgotten just about everything regarding the fourth movie except for one thing: the movie counted on the viewer having also watched the tv series. Since I didn't watch the tv series, I was often left wondering about the motivation of several of the characters.

This is why I consider Serenity to be such a good movie. As someone who has not seen more than one episode of the tv series, I was able to follow the story and understand the characters very easily. Very few movie adaptations of tv series have pulled that off.