HIGHLA-L Digest - 3 Sep 2004 (#2004-169)
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1. Highlander Toon Movie In Development (Film In 2006) (4)
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Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 01:37:14 +0100
From: "a.j.mosby" <a.j.mosby@btinternet.com>
Subject: Re: Highlander Toon Movie In Development (Film In 2006)
Actually, it's not really a Toonami/Pokemon thing. More like Vampire Hunter
D... more adult-orientated animation from the East. The direct to DVD
approach might actually work in its favour as it won't have to worry about a
TV audience and have to bring in huge numbers from cinemas. I think we're
goign to find that DVD is more and more the way that some projects will go.
One of the upcoming SG1 movies is aimed at DVD.
John
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From: "Ginny" <RED57@aol.com>
To: <HIGHLA-L@LISTS.PSU.EDU>
Sent: Saturday, September 04, 2004 1:14 AM
Subject: Re: [HL] Highlander Toon Movie In Development (Film In 2006)
> Gregory Mate wrote on 9/3/2004, 3:27 PM:
>
> > Ginny:
> > > The venerable Highlander franchise is on track to become an animated
> > > movie for release in spring 2006 ....
> >
> > > That pretty much says it all, doesn't it?
> >
> > Nina:
> > > Except--Direct to DVD.
> >
> > And...anime-style cartoon!
>
> Oh, of course, you're both right, it's the DVD and Anime/Card game
> angle. D'oh!
>
> > ....Greg....
> > gmate@rogers.com
> > (I can see it now: Trying to revive the defunct Highlander collectible
> > card game, children in the cartoon will wander around with their deck
> > of Highlander trading cards, pulling out their favourite Immortal...
> <snip>
>
> ...getting banned at schools, parents in an uproar over "satanic,
> violent" game, planned obsolescence of "rare" cards to drive up value,
> barking mad auctions at E-bay, and at least one obessessed collector
> will take to wearing a sword around town and be contacted by police.
>
> It's deja vu all over again.
>
> --
> Ginny
> RED57@aol.com
> Fresh out of .sig lines
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Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 20:38:36 -0400
From: Wendy Tillis <immortals_incorporated@cox.net>
Subject: Re: Highlander Toon Movie In Development (Film In 2006)
Ginny reported:
> The venerable Highlander franchise is on track to become an animated
> movie for release in spring 2006, Variety reported. Davis-Panzer
> Productions and Imagi International are developing the project,
> which will be animated through Madhouse of Japan (Tokyo Godfathers),
> the trade paper reported. David Abramowitz, who was head writer on
> the Highlander TV series, will write the screenplay.
Maybe this is the infamous "Highlander:The Source" we've heard about. Or....maybe it is the elusive "Highlander:Archangel" .
Wendy( It does explain why we were never able to track down any actors who were attached to the projects..there won't be any actors!)
Immortals Inc.
immortals_incorporated@cox.net
"Weasels for Eternity"
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Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 01:57:20 +0100
From: "a.j.mosby" <a.j.mosby@btinternet.com>
Subject: Re: Highlander Toon Movie In Development (Film In 2006)
> Maybe this is the infamous "Highlander:The Source" we've heard about.
> Or....maybe it is the elusive "Highlander:Archangel" .
>
> Wendy( It does explain why we were never able to track down any actors who
> were attached to the projects..there won't be any actors!)
Nope. Archangel was very much a live-action project. The annoying thing
there was that it was all ready to go. All it needed for acting contracts to
be signed was a confirmed start-date and then it missed the opening it had.
Now the slots are filled for the next year. It's in limbo, but not
automatically dead. The Source, for which I read the most up to date
script, is very different from the proposed animated movie.
John
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Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 21:07:01 EDT
From: Evelyn Duncan <BrandyKitt@aol.com>
Subject: Re: Highlander Toon Movie In Development (Film In 2006)
In a message dated 9/3/2004 7:56:40 PM Central Daylight Time,
a.j.mosby@btinternet.com writes:
<<
Actually, it's not really a Toonami/Pokemon thing. More like Vampire Hunter
D... more adult-orientated animation from the East.
>>
If it's anything like Witch Hunter Robin, Cowboy Bebop, or Big O
(three adult anime), I would watch it and (probably) buy it.
I wonder who they would get to play Duncan, probably David Lucas?
Evelyn Duncan
brandykitt@aol.com
"Hail to the Chief; he's the chief, and
he needs hailing."
-- My Fellow Americans
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