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22 September 2009 11:05 PM, PDT | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »

Summit Entertainment are preparing a new kind of magic. Just two years after the franchise-killing fourth sequel, Highlander's head is to be magically re-attached (just like Sean Connery's in Highlander 2). The reboot announced by producer Peter S Davis in Empire issue 241 is properly underway. And the director? Justin Lin, whose CV to date includes Fast and Furious, and its predecessor Tokyo Drift, as well as indie dramas Better Luck Tomorrow and Finishing the Game.The original Highlander franchise began with Christopher Lambert and Sean Connery chopping heads in Russell Mulachy's original film in 1986, and ended ignominiously on the Sci-Fi channel in 2007, with Adrian Paul dodging mutant cannibals in an inexpensive Romanian forest (Brett Leonard's Highlander: The Source). In between were three other sequels, two TV series, a Saturday morning cartoon and an anime. Clearly, like Mulcahy before him, Lin has the flashy visuals down pat, and he »

22 September 2009 3:26 PM, PDT | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »

Last year it was announced that a Highlander remake was on the way, with Iron Man writers Art Marcum and Matt Holloway hired to give a fresh new take on Russell Mulcahy's original 1986 film that would lay the groundwork for a franchise reboot. Considering that the Highlander series had slowly descended into the depths of direct-to-dvd hell over the past 20 years, I don't think anyone was too surprised by this move. The question remains though... can Highlander actually be repackaged and sold to a new generation? This week Summit Entertainment has apparently found a couple of people who they feel can pull it off: director Justin Lin and producer Neal Moritz, who previously worked together on the last two installments of The Fast and the Furious series. Lin's directing credits also include the crime thriller Better Luck Tomorrow, boxing drama Annapolis, and mockumentary Finishing the Game. Well, I guess »

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28 July 2009 2:51 PM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »

The director of this new installment talks about the new DVD, working with the original cast and a possible fifth film

Justin Lin is a director who has proven he can succeed both in and out of the studio system. His breakthrough film, Better Luck Tomorrow, lead to such studio films as Annapolis and The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, but the director also found time between those projects to make the indie sensation Finishing the Game. The director is back with the franchise that brings all the hot cars and hot women to the silver screen, with the new film Fast & Furious, which hits the shelves on DVD and Blu-ray on July 28. I had the chance to speak with Lin today over the phone, and here's what he had to say.

I really enjoyed Tokyo Drift and the writer on that, Chris Morgan, had written this film as well, »

3 articles from 2009