Juan Carlos Fresnadillo’s The Intruders starring Clive Owen is premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival today , but Spanish director has just landed a high profile gig to follow his horror thriller. Deadline reports the filmmaker is in talks to helm the reboot of the 1986 sci-fi fantasy film Highlander, a project recently vacated by Fast Five director Justin Lin who will be busy with another installment of the Fast and the Furious franchise and a new Terminator film. Fresnadillo is also attached to direct The Crow, another reboot of previous adaptation.
The original epic fantasy (starring Christopher Lambert and Sean Connery) had our hero battling an unstoppable barbarian who covets the power gained from there being only one of near-immortal beings left alive. In a strange turn, the script (from Iron Man writers Art Marcum and Matt Holloway) was revealed to be re-written by The Twilight Saga screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg, who has scripted several episodes of “Dexter” on Showtime.
