Highlander: Regenesis



I love the movie Highlander. I love it. I just go crazy for it. It's one of my favorite films of all time. However, I feel that almost all its sequels, series and spin-offs are horrible. (An exception to this Highlander III: The Final Dimension, which I consider the actual sequel to the first film. It's not great, but it's watchable.) The cannon of this film series is a completely muddled mishmash of incomprehensible nonsense. Almost all of the sequels either ignore previous films and the TV show or they twist timelines and key plot elements totally beyond the imagination. The upside to such sloppy screenwriting is that I can pitch my own brand new and totally awesome sequel (that ignores all the sequels and series, and picks up where the first film leaves off) called HIGHLANDER: REGENESIS.

In the first film, Connor MacLeod (of the clan MacLeod) defeats the only other immortal left, takes the ultimate Quickening and becomes mortal. The film doesn't address one key element: you don't know you're immortal until you die for the first time. That stands to reason that in 1985 there are a number of people who don't know they're immortal walking around. I posit that in the final Quickening, all the power that keeps them immortal dissipates, rendering anyone who doesn't yet know they're immortal totally ordinary. The exception to this are two unborn babies, one in Hong Kong (Li), and the other in Cardiff, Wales (Bryn). Flash forward to present day. Now 24, both boys live in London. They finally meet when their two taxis collide head on in the middle of the night, killing them and the drivers. At the same instant, Connor MacLeod (now mortal and in his early 50's) awakens with a start and says, "It begins again".

Their deaths and rebirths as immortals reawaken the powers of the Quickening, and Connor seeks them out. He trains and mentors them, warning that "The Game" has begun again. All of the people who didn't know they were immortal will soon find out, and the mortals who knew about them previously will seek them out in an attempt to gain power. Li and Bryn become fast friends, but then are torn apart when they love the same girl who (for some reason) dies as a result of their being immortal. Li is approached by nefarious group bent on world domination, and (despondent and angry over the loss of his true love, a death for which he blames Bryn) joins them. This group then uses Li to find other potential immortals, kills them, and recruits them to their dark ways. Connor and Bryn then begin to form a coalition of good immortals who've agreed to postpone "The Game" in order to do battle against the evil band of corrupt immortals bent on world domination.

Endless. Numbers. Of Sequels. Highlander: Regenesis. This is the new shit, I'm telling you.

I would like to point out that this idea is my intellectual property, and if you use it with me getting a "Story By" and an "Associate Producer" credit, I'm going to sue the ever loving shit out of you.
- posted by Mason @ 4:46 PM