TORONTO TOLDJA! Juan Carlos Fresnadillo To Direct Highlander Remake

Earlier today, we scooped that director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, in Toronto for your premiere of his latest movie The Criminals, was the key-runner to helm Summit Entertainment’s re-imagining of Highlander, the 1986 fantasy sci-fi film starring Christopher Lambert about immortals who fight with swords, and live and die with the mantra that there can be only one. Well, the distributor just confirmed that Fresnadillo may be the only person to direct it: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo will direct Summit Entertainments re-imagination in the cult film HIGHLANDER co-funded by RCR Media Group. Summits HIGHLANDER is put together by Art Marcum and Matt Holloway. Neal H. Mortiz and Peter Davis will produce the project as well as Enrique Lpez Lavigne and Belen Atienza. RCR Media Groups concepts Rui Costa Reis and Eliad Josephson will executive produce the film. Justin Lin may even executive produce. Summit acquired the rights to remake the cult classic from Davis – Panzer Productions, Corporation. in May of 2008. Production concerning the film is slated to begin spring of 2012. In HIGHLANDER, after centuries of dueling to live against others like him, Connor MacLeod, an immortal Scottish swordsman must confront all the his kind, a murderously brutal barbarian, who lusts for your Prize. Juan Carlos Fresnadillo directed 4 weeks LATER additionally to Criminals, that's premiering within the Toronto Film Festival. His other credits are the The the spanish language language language INTACTO and Oscar nominated short LINKED. Fresnadillo is represented by UTA.