Hollywood Déjà Vu News: Sept. 22, 2009
Remakes
There can only be one—again. Director Justin Lin (right) will reunite with his The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift and Fast and Furious producer Neal H. Moritz for Summit Entertainment’s Highlander remake, according to Variety. Showing how much Highlander means to the fledging studio behind the The Twilight Saga, Summit’s hired Iron Man screenwriters Art Marcum and Matt Holloway to revive the franchise once anchored by Christopher Lambert’s immortal Connor MacLeod. A Highlander reboot couldn’t come at a better time: the last sequel, The Source, the first in a proposed trilogy featuring Adrian Paul’s Duncan MacLeod, bypassed theaters and debuted on the Sci-Fi Channel in September 2007.
Sequels
Boris Kodjoe can’t stop talking about Resident Evil: Afterlife. It’s not enough that he announced via Twitter that he’s costarring with Milla Jovovich in the Paul W.S. Anderson-directed sequel, due in 2010, but now he’s revealing more cast details. Kodjoe tells Black Film that Afterlife will see the return of Ali Larter, who played Claire Redfield in Extinction, and the addition of Prison Break’s Wentworth Miller as a fellow survivor of the zombie apocalypse.
Speculate all you want, but no one’s been cast in the next Batman sequel beyond the usual suspects. So forgot all those rumors about Megan Fox and—according to Michael Caine—Johnny Depp. The man who is Gotham City’s most invaluable butler tells MTV that “Johnny Depp is great in anything, but there is no Johnny Depp in this Batman. They tell me in no uncertain terms.” When will someone tell us who will be in the third Batman?
