HIGHLA-L Digest - 7 Apr 2003 to 8 Apr 2003 (#2003-53)
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1. more bad news on HL5 (4)
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Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 08:38:17 -1000
From: MacWestie <mac.westie@verizon.net>
Subject: more bad news on HL5
Per Moviehole--
"Miramax confirm that work is finally about to get underway on a fifth
"Highlander" movie. One which won't be starring any of the original stars,
notably Christopher Lambert. Set to go into production shortly, "Highlander
: The Source", has been mooted for years, but it's only now that it's
showing signs of going ahead."
http://www.moviehole.net/news.php?newsid=1358
Nina (truly terrible times we live in)
mac.westie@verizon.net
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Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 16:25:26 -0400
From: Gregory Mate <gmate@rogers.com>
Subject: Re: more bad news on HL5
At 08:38 AM 08/04/2003 -1000, Nina wrote:
>Per Moviehole--
>
>"Miramax confirm that work is finally about to get underway on a fifth
>"Highlander" movie. One which won't be starring any of the original stars,
Probably the lead character's name will be Quentin.
(Yeah, I'm back)
Gregory Mate
gmate@rogers.com
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get
its pants on." - Winston Churchill
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Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 16:31:12 -0700
From: Pat Lawson <plawson@webleyweb.com>
Subject: Re: more bad news on HL5
you wrote:
>Per Moviehole--
>
>"Miramax confirm that work is finally about to get underway on a fifth
>"Highlander" movie. One which won't be starring any of the original stars,
>notably Christopher Lambert. Set to go into production shortly, "Highlander
>: The Source", has been mooted for years, but it's only now that it's
>showing signs of going ahead."
>
>http://www.moviehole.net/news.php?newsid=1358
I'll admit I'm not optimistic about the quality of a new HL movie. There's
that track record thing.
OTOH, I think I'll reserve judgement until we have a little more to go
on. Some of the folks involved did manage to make the series which
brought us all to this list.
Pat L.
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Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 19:56:23 EDT
From: RED57@aol.com
Subject: Re: more bad news on HL5
In a message dated 4/8/2003 6:31:59 PM Central Daylight Time,
plawson@webleyweb.com writes:
> OTOH, I think I'll reserve judgement until we have a little more to go
> on. Some of the folks involved did manage to make the series which
> brought us all to this list.
>
>
If I might crawl out from under the Porch of the Rockers for the Aged for a
second.... <g>
I remember thinking about 10 years ago when Highlander: The Series was first
announced that the movie PTB were going to screw up another perfectly good
SF/ Fantasy movie by adapting it for television. Boy, did I ever stand
corrected.
Then a few years back, another movie's PTB announced that they were going to
adapt it for television, and I thought "oh, this time they'll definitely
screw up yet another perfectly good SF/Fantasy movie by turning into a TV
show." Now that my dear hubbie and I are addicted to watching SG-1 reruns on
Mondays via TiVo, I stand corrected yet again.
On the other other hand, the HL movie folks made 1 good movie and 3
moderately wretched sequels (except for some parts of HL:IV). So it doesn't
look promising.
I still say our HL:IV was way better than theirs, though. Remember Jim and
"Why don't we do it in the road?" <beg>
Ginny
RED57@aol.com
AOL has spam filters? Sort of. Maybe I won't dump it after all. ;)
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