Highlander 5: On tele in a fortnight

Here’s odd. Highlander: The Source, sequel to Highlander: End Game, is going to be on tele on the US SciFi Channel in a fortnight. It’s not even gone straight to DVD – it’s now a ‘Sci Fi Channel original movie’. There’s an official trailer (below) and I have to say, it doesn’t look fantastic, which might explain the shift.

Apparently, they’re all off (Duncan and Methos, that is – at least some of the semi-original characters are in there) to find out what makes immortals immortal, even though it’s explained in Highlander 2, which apparently we’re supposed to ignore completely these days – they even did a re-edit of the movie to get rid of every reference to the Planet Zeist.

The grunge-o-matic atmosphere is probably something to do with their killing Connor before the events of Highlander: The Quickening took place, meaning we’re all going into post-apocalyptic, Ozone layer-free, East European hell since he wasn’t around to fix things. Even though he was. But we’re ignoring that now.

I’ll reserve judgement until it airs, though.

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    I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.

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