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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  • What can it all mean? No more Who? No more tenth Doctor? An October start for series five? Whichever one it is, David Tennant is going to be playing Hamlet and Berowne from July 24th until November 15th 2008

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Quick Bourne Identity/Supremacy question

Is the guy who shoots Conklin (Chris Cooper) at the end of Identity supposed to be the same character as the German Treadstone agent Bourne meets in Supremacy?

Reasons for

  1. Character 2 is described as the only other remaining Treadstone agent. What about character 1 then, unless they’re the same person?
  2. They look very similar
  3. They’re both based in Germany

Reasons against

  1. They’re played by different actors
  2. The characters have different names (at least according to the script; it’s not mentioned onscreen)
  3. Character 1 is based in Hamburg, Character 2 in Munich, but Bourne tells him he should have moved

What do you all think? Anyone have wisdom on this score?

Anyway, I’m off to see The Bourne Ultimatum now. I hear it’s good.

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