So Disney Bought Star Wars and Highlander Is Getting Remade

[Royal Hijinx]

To me Star Wars was dead before the second batch was ever released. Don't get me wrong, I loved the original trilogy. But if you want to keep my attention, then you need to do it less than a decade.
I dislike most remakes immensely. I feel, been done is done. But Hollywood is out of new ideas. So if they are going to remake Highlander, I think Gerard Butler would make a good Conner. He's from the right side of the pond, and he does both comedy and drama equally well.

Good call on Girard Butler.

[RetiredJedi]

Maybe with LucasArts out of the picture now we'll see a decent Star Wars video game.

???? The Force Unleashed/The Force Unleashed II were pretty awesome and Star Wars 1313 is looking pretty promising.

[devildog_dk]

???? The Force Unleashed/The Force Unleashed II were pretty awesome and Star Wars 1313 is looking pretty promising.

Should've clarified: I meant an MMO, SWG was awesome until LucasArts demanded some pretty drastic changes and SWTOR just sucked out of the box.

[olstyn]

Apologies for what follows, but this sort of error irks me and I need to get it out of my system, so bear with me:

The last name of the main character in Highlander, whether you prefer the movie (Connor) or the TV series (Duncan), is MacLeod. It's not something that rains on you.

That said, I agree that Ryan Reynolds will make an awful MacLeod, and that some (most, with Ocean's 11 being a rare exception?) things are better left un-remade.

Highlander aside, I guess Disney can't ruin Star Wars any more than Lucas already has, but I've got no interest in giving them any of my box-office dollars for it. That Disney font/Death Star mashup graphic is pretty awesome, though.

[mainbutter]

Apologies for what follows, but this sort of error irks me and I need to get it out of my system, so bear with me:

The last name of the main character in Highlander, whether you prefer the movie (Connor) or the TV series (Duncan), is MacLeod. It's not something that rains on you.

Thank you, you beat me to it.

[Adam Chandler]

I just found out about Disney buy the star wars franchise today too. I honestly hated the newer movies, and I don't have much hope of Disney doing any good creating more.

I don't know, these are the same guys that brought us The Avengers. If Disney can make a movie of that caliber then I'm cautiously optimistic about how Episode 7, 8 & 9 will turn out.

[Don]

Apologies for what follows, but this sort of error irks me and I need to get it out of my system, so bear with me:

The last name of the main character in Highlander, whether you prefer the movie (Connor) or the TV series (Duncan), is MacLeod. It's not something that rains on you.

Thanks, I thought something looked funny about the spelling of the name.

[carlson]

I read the Star Wars books when I was young I wonder if the next three movies will follow the path the books did for what happened after six? If they do they might be worth watching I liked the originals growing up still do they remind me of being a kid but the last three kinda loses me a bit. So who knows I guess ill watch them and see.

[dr del]

SW:

I just found this out because I got so tired of seeing Sandy news that I just cut off the news for 3 days.

I can say I am shocked. But then again, it's hard to turn down $4 Billion. I guess Lucas thought he was getting too old and it was time to pass the torch. Now I hear they are going to make antoher trilogy with new actors playing the old characters.

Honestly I think SW is just going to go downhill. Not that is wasn't already with the prequels mostly being bad.

Then again, the Star Trek reboot blew my mind with how good it was. So I guess I will just wait and see.

Highlander:

So Hollywood is going to butcher more of my childhood. Highlander, although kinda cheesy looking at it now, is still one of my favorite movies ever and a classic. And now it is getting remade with Ryan Reynolds as Connor MacCloud.

I don't care for Ryan Reynolds. He basically plays the same character in every movies. Deadpool, Green Lantern, same guy with different outfit. So not too thrilled that he is going to try and be Christopher Lambert. Now don't get me wrong. There are some great actors that play the same person every time like Chris Walken. But I like Chris Walken. He's hilarious. Ryan Reynolds, well, IMO, isn't. At least not in the way that is needed for this character or the others he has recently been.

Just let the Highlander franchise die. I mean, every single movie after the first was bad, badder, extra crispy bad, and then shoot me/end the pain bad. The TV show was good though. Any ways, please, just create something new and original instead of rehashing old stuff.

No, say it aint so.

And Ryan Reynolds?!?!!??!!!!!!!!



This shall not stand!

Maybe with LucasArts out of the picture now we'll see a decent Star Wars video game.

I quite liked Jedi knight 2.