Melissa Rosenberg to Write Summit’s Highlander Script
Posted on 10. Feb, 2011 by Amanda31 in News
According to The Hollywood Reporter:
After taking on vampires in Summit’s Twilight Saga, writer Melissa Rosenberg is tackling a different kind of immortal being: Scottish highlanders.
The scribe is in negotiations to come on board to work on the studio’s remake of Highlander.
… The original story centered on a Scottish swordsman, who discovers he is part of a secret race of near-immortal beings and faces off against an unstoppable barbarian who covets the power gained from there being only one of their kind left.
With her Twilight connection, Rosenberg may seem an odd choice for writing the action remake. But as the sole writer on Summit’s vampire pentalogy, she has proved adept at handling both character and action, as well as yearning, a key component of Highlander as protagonist Connor MacLeod watches his true love age while he does not. Before tackling Twilight, Rosenberg was a writer/co-executive producer on Dexter, the Showtime series that darkly balances family with bloody carnage.
One Response to “Melissa Rosenberg to Write Summit’s Highlander Script”
Chelle
13. Feb, 2011
Those movies are iconic. I personally think it’s unnecessary to remake them.