Who Wants to Live Forever? The Highlander
Filed under: Action, Lionsgate Films, Fandom, Trailer Trash, Movie Marketing, Remakes and Sequels
When making movies like the Highlander, filmmakers are faced with immortality's pesky limitations. There is only so long we can suspend disbelief as an actor plays an immortal character and ages. Christopher Lambert spent a whopping 14 years as the immortal ass-kicker Connor MacLeod. Luckily, the powers behind the story brought on a new MacLeod rather than recasting Lambert in 2000's Highlander: Endgame, even if it wasn't met with the best reviews. Bad reviews be damned, Adrian Paul's Duncan MacLeod, the star of the 90's television series (and of the new Highlander: The Source)has got a following. JAM! Showbiz has reported that there is a trailer on The Source's official website ... and indeed, there is. However, it's not some super-polished, or even semi-polished trailer created to cook up curiosity. Instead, in all of its embedded YouTube glory, it just looks like the beginning of the film, pirated and posted by some fan. I can only assume that the creator's can't be bothered to come up with a flashy version themselves, or at least one that shows more than what seems to be the opening scene equipped with French text. It shows up as even more shoddy surrounded by flashy buzz words like "tremendous," "maverick" and "milestone." Lionsgate -- if you really feel this way, please give fans a real trailer that describes the film and is shown in hi-res, or adequate-res glory! Otherwise, I'm just going to ignore it and sing along with Freddie Mercury.
Note: The actual YouTube link has the trailer a bit larger.
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1-16-2007 @ 10:53PM
Rich Drees said...
May I be the first to say that in regards to the HIGHLANDER films, there should have been only one.
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1-16-2007 @ 11:10PM
Guto said...
It's not french, guys... it's brazilian portuguese! =D
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1-17-2007 @ 3:22PM
Cath said...
Consider me one of Adrian Paul's undying fans. The TV show was infinitely superior to any of the films, though I respect Lambert's work.
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