{"id":15713,"date":"2011-08-12T21:48:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-13T02:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=15713"},"modified":"2011-11-06T09:10:15","modified_gmt":"2011-11-06T14:10:15","slug":"justin-lin-drops-out-of-directing-highlander-remake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/08\/12\/justin-lin-drops-out-of-directing-highlander-remake\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Lin Drops Out Of Directing HIGHLANDER Remake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/JustinLin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15714\" title=\"JustinLin\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/JustinLin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With the success of <strong>Fast Five<\/strong> earlier this year, Justin Lin has been fielding a lot of offers in the past few months. It seems almost inevitable that his schedule would become a bit overbooked and that appears to be the case as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/heat-vision\/justin-lin-exits-summits-highlander-222325\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Hollywood Reporter<\/em><\/a> is breaking the news that the director has dropped out of the <strong>Highlander<\/strong> remake to which he was previously attached.<\/p>\n<p>Lin first became involved with Summit Entertainment\u2019s remake of the 1986 fantasy film about immortals battling their way through history to the modern ear to claim a vaguely defined but powerful \u201cPrize\u201d back in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2009\/09\/23\/highlander-remake-gets-a-director\/\" target=\"_blank\">September 2009<\/a>. However, Universal\u2019s desire to have Lin get a sixth <strong>Fast And Furious<\/strong> film into theaters as quick as possible as well as studio pressure to start moving forward on a new <strong>Terminator<\/strong> film have lead to a scheduling conflict with Summit\u2019s project.<\/p>\n<p>Lin will stay on as an executive producer for the project.<\/p>\n<p>Summit bought the rights to remake <strong>Highlander<\/strong> back in May 2008. Since then they\u2019ve had Art Marcum and Matt Holloway work on the script. You can read our review of their January 21,2009 draft <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2009\/10\/07\/script-review-highlander-remake\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Presumably if Summit is looking at getting this project in front of cameras as quickly as possible, I would expect news of a replacement director relatively soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">He will stay on as an Executive Producer of the project for Summit.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/08\/12\/justin-lin-drops-out-of-directing-highlander-remake\/\" title=\"Justin Lin Drops Out Of Directing HIGHLANDER Remake\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[365,2046],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15713","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-highlander","8":"tag-justin-lin"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15713"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=15713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}