Twilander
So the lady who did the screenplays for the Twilight movies is apparently helming the scripts for the Highlander reboot. I thought I'd cast the net out and see what the general thoughts on this... venture... might be. Here are a couple of mine.
- Well at least it's a reboot. If every movie after the first one told us anything (especially the second) it's that every single movie just made the continuity more confusing than the last one. I can't think of a single circumstance that would let the 1st and 4th movies, for instance, both occur, unless it happened in the second one which I cannot recall thanks to some combination of falling asleep, subconscious selective amnesia, or turning it off. I honestly can't remember which.
- Why does it need a reboot? I realize Hollywood seems to have completely lost interest in attempting to make new things in the last few years, but there are some things that I think were successful only because the right people made the right movie at the right time. Remaking Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, a timeless classic that I despise, with gnomes is a desperate but kind of kitchy-clever way to have a movie and maybe tell a good story to some kids and their parents. Highlander doesn't have a great story, and wasn't a particularly great movie. Some ageless dudes achieve godlike power by killing each other with swords and Queen did the sound track. It was an awesome 80's movie, but there's no way to recreate that now.
- It's gonna be in fucking 3D.
- It's probably unfair to judge this screenwriter solely based on the fact that she reworked the Twilight movies. In fact, from what I can tell she did a decent job of staying true to the source material which is an enviable trait that I wish more screenwriters had, even if she does suffer from either poor taste or an understandable love of money. So let's see what else Melissa Rosenburg has done. Oh man, she wrote and produced Birds of Prey! This movie is gonna be so freaking successful!
- Well at least it's a reboot. If every movie after the first one told us anything (especially the second) it's that every single movie just made the continuity more confusing than the last one. I can't think of a single circumstance that would let the 1st and 4th movies, for instance, both occur, unless it happened in the second one which I cannot recall thanks to some combination of falling asleep, subconscious selective amnesia, or turning it off. I honestly can't remember which.
- Why does it need a reboot? I realize Hollywood seems to have completely lost interest in attempting to make new things in the last few years, but there are some things that I think were successful only because the right people made the right movie at the right time. Remaking Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, a timeless classic that I despise, with gnomes is a desperate but kind of kitchy-clever way to have a movie and maybe tell a good story to some kids and their parents. Highlander doesn't have a great story, and wasn't a particularly great movie. Some ageless dudes achieve godlike power by killing each other with swords and Queen did the sound track. It was an awesome 80's movie, but there's no way to recreate that now.
- It's gonna be in fucking 3D.
- It's probably unfair to judge this screenwriter solely based on the fact that she reworked the Twilight movies. In fact, from what I can tell she did a decent job of staying true to the source material which is an enviable trait that I wish more screenwriters had, even if she does suffer from either poor taste or an understandable love of money. So let's see what else Melissa Rosenburg has done. Oh man, she wrote and produced Birds of Prey! This movie is gonna be so freaking successful!