{"id":44577,"date":"2013-06-18T07:19:37","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T06:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=44577"},"modified":"2013-06-18T07:19:37","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T06:19:37","slug":"highlander-reboot-loses-ryan-reynolds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/highlander-reboot-loses-ryan-reynolds\/","title":{"rendered":"Highlander reboot loses Ryan Reynolds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_44578\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44578\" style=\"width: 616px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-44578\" alt=\"Christopher Lambert in the original 1986 Highlander\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Highlander-616x336.jpg\" width=\"616\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Highlander-616x336.jpg 616w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Highlander-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Highlander.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-44578\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christopher Lambert in the original 1986 Highlander<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/movies\/column-post\/ryan-reynolds-exits-highlander-reboot-summit-exclusive-97991\"><em>The Wrap<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/36918\/green-lantern-2-no-longer-happening\/\"><em>Green Lantern<\/em><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/44540\/ripd-new-tv-trailer-with-new-scenes\/\"><em>RIPD<\/em> <\/a>star Ryan Reynolds has left Summit&#x2019;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/24462\/ryan-reynolds-is-conner-macleod-in-highlander-reboot\/\"><em>Highlander<\/em> <\/a>reboot.<\/p>\n<p>This follows the departure of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/interviews\/23558\/intruders-its-personal\/\"><em>28 Weeks Later<\/em> director&#xA0;Juan Carlos Fresnadillo<\/a> in November 2012, citing a very different vision of the <em>Highlander<\/em> franchise from producers&#xA0;Neal Moritz and Peter Davis.<\/p>\n<p>The pair now need to cast both a star and sign up a new director.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You can pick up the <em>Highlander<\/em> Immortal Edition <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Highlander-Blu-ray-Sean-Connery\/dp\/B002GDM2UA\/ref=sr_1_17?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1371535856&sr=1-17&keywords=highlander&tag=scifinowmag-21\">on Blu-ray for &#xA3;7.88 from Amazon.co.uk<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-44577-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/youtube\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kq4SqgxIKM0&#038;_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kq4SqgxIKM0\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kq4SqgxIKM0<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Green Lantern&#8217;s Ryan Reynolds quits Highlander reboot, now without director and star<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":44578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,3],"tags":[393],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Highlander.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44577"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}