Highlander anime trailer
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Not much to know yet, they will release a feature length anime style film. From the teaser it breaks away (again) from the "established" Highlander universe... though it could connect with the TV series in a sci-fi way. It focuses on "Colin McCloud"...
From the offical homepage...
In revenge, patience is a virtue. And after a millennium, Colin MacLeod doesn't give a damn about virtue.
After four films and two successful television series, you've never seen the Highlander like this. MacLeod returns with a vengeance.in an animated feature-length epic
! In the tradition of "Vampire Hunter D" and "Ninja Scroll," anime wizard Yoshiaki Kawajiri brings his unique visual bravura to the immortal "Highlander" franchise. For the first time, the MacLeod katana blade will find itself in the hands of a Japanese master.
In the new tale, the lone warrior Colin travels with the wise-cracking ghost Amergan through the ages searching for the immortal despot Marcus Octavius, who killed his lover on the Celtic plains tens of centuries ago. On his quest, he discovers New York is submerged, and one dominant monolith fortress towers over the seas. Colin can save the survivors, but his sword only hungers for the blood of one man. Despite many lifetimes of training, Colin has failed to vanquish Marcus on the great battlefields of history. Can he finish what he started and stop Marcus? Will Colin lead the people to freedom or become consumed by hate? There can be only one.
Offical Homepage:
http://www.imagi.com.hk/movie/web/highm.htm
Anime News Network page:
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclo ... hp?id=5552
Highlander-Offical.com Forum:
http://www.highlander-community.com/cgi ... forum;f=25
Now, googling took me 5 minutes... Bisc, I bet you could have had an answer much sooner if you did aswell!
From the offical homepage...
In revenge, patience is a virtue. And after a millennium, Colin MacLeod doesn't give a damn about virtue.
After four films and two successful television series, you've never seen the Highlander like this. MacLeod returns with a vengeance.in an animated feature-length epic
! In the tradition of "Vampire Hunter D" and "Ninja Scroll," anime wizard Yoshiaki Kawajiri brings his unique visual bravura to the immortal "Highlander" franchise. For the first time, the MacLeod katana blade will find itself in the hands of a Japanese master.
In the new tale, the lone warrior Colin travels with the wise-cracking ghost Amergan through the ages searching for the immortal despot Marcus Octavius, who killed his lover on the Celtic plains tens of centuries ago. On his quest, he discovers New York is submerged, and one dominant monolith fortress towers over the seas. Colin can save the survivors, but his sword only hungers for the blood of one man. Despite many lifetimes of training, Colin has failed to vanquish Marcus on the great battlefields of history. Can he finish what he started and stop Marcus? Will Colin lead the people to freedom or become consumed by hate? There can be only one.
Offical Homepage:
http://www.imagi.com.hk/movie/web/highm.htm
Anime News Network page:
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclo ... hp?id=5552
Highlander-Offical.com Forum:
http://www.highlander-community.com/cgi ... forum;f=25
Now, googling took me 5 minutes... Bisc, I bet you could have had an answer much sooner if you did aswell!
So long, and thanks for all the fish!
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The TV show was amazing absolutly stunning at times all 6 Seasons are great, even parts of Season 6 
The 1st film is amazing,
part 2 well its odd and I hated it for a long time, but I take it for what it is now big dumb fun!
Part 3 is great
Part 4 is again odd and quite stupidly ruined at times by silly things (like the main bad guy!!!) but it has some nice moments in it.
The Animated show was appuling and nothing to do with Highlander even!
Muppets!
The 1st film is amazing,
part 2 well its odd and I hated it for a long time, but I take it for what it is now big dumb fun!
Part 3 is great
Part 4 is again odd and quite stupidly ruined at times by silly things (like the main bad guy!!!) but it has some nice moments in it.
The Animated show was appuling and nothing to do with Highlander even!
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Mmmm, directed by Yoshiaki Kawajiri. Kawajiri probably makes the best films of the brainless shounen fighting genre. So this project at least has some promise.
From an interview:-
We just finished an anime 'The Highlander' with Kawajiri in Japan
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With respect to "The Highlander," Gray explained what can be done in anime that wasn't covered in film and TV: "This was an experimental project. We owned at one point Madhouse in Japan, which is not the top tier but it's in the second tier level of anime houses. And we wanted to do a project that's taking a western iconic project and do it in the anime process. It wasn't easy because the Japanese in anime, the director is the director. There is no producer coming and giving notes. He gets up in the morning, he goes there and this is the way the movie's going to go. They don't follow conventional storylines of beginning, middle and end. It's really whatever they feel like.
"But with Kawajiri, we were able to get him to tell the story in a more traditional western way. All the 'Spirited Away' and all the ones that have gone on have not really rocketed hugely overseas because in our opinion, they're not as accessible in the story. Visually, they're phenomenal and we love it but it's story for us and the Japanese don't necessarily have happy endings. So it was a bit of a trial of getting this thing done but it turned out really interesting, designed totally for the DVD market. We had no theatrical ambitions other than in Europe we'll go, in France and a few other places. It was our attempt to try to take a hybrid so to speak and see if we could pull it off. We're out there now and the results have been pretty interesting."
In addition, Gray confirmed the story will still be about the MacLeod.
"Yeah, it's a time travel back. It has all the characteristics of the 'Highlander' series but kind of wrapped up in Kawajiri's mind of how his interpretation of the Highlander would be. A lot of similarity between samurai and Highlander, the clans and the swords and everything else. I mean, it was really difficult because of translation and if we pull it off, we'll look at other projects that we want to do but the company wants to push it."
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From an interview:-
We just finished an anime 'The Highlander' with Kawajiri in Japan
...
With respect to "The Highlander," Gray explained what can be done in anime that wasn't covered in film and TV: "This was an experimental project. We owned at one point Madhouse in Japan, which is not the top tier but it's in the second tier level of anime houses. And we wanted to do a project that's taking a western iconic project and do it in the anime process. It wasn't easy because the Japanese in anime, the director is the director. There is no producer coming and giving notes. He gets up in the morning, he goes there and this is the way the movie's going to go. They don't follow conventional storylines of beginning, middle and end. It's really whatever they feel like.
"But with Kawajiri, we were able to get him to tell the story in a more traditional western way. All the 'Spirited Away' and all the ones that have gone on have not really rocketed hugely overseas because in our opinion, they're not as accessible in the story. Visually, they're phenomenal and we love it but it's story for us and the Japanese don't necessarily have happy endings. So it was a bit of a trial of getting this thing done but it turned out really interesting, designed totally for the DVD market. We had no theatrical ambitions other than in Europe we'll go, in France and a few other places. It was our attempt to try to take a hybrid so to speak and see if we could pull it off. We're out there now and the results have been pretty interesting."
In addition, Gray confirmed the story will still be about the MacLeod.
"Yeah, it's a time travel back. It has all the characteristics of the 'Highlander' series but kind of wrapped up in Kawajiri's mind of how his interpretation of the Highlander would be. A lot of similarity between samurai and Highlander, the clans and the swords and everything else. I mean, it was really difficult because of translation and if we pull it off, we'll look at other projects that we want to do but the company wants to push it."
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Mangle/Anchor Bay will be putting out the film on DVD in R1 land.
Manga Entertainment is planning to release the 80-minute Highlander: Vengeance anime feature on June 5th in both regular and special editions. Directed by Yoshiaki Kawajiri (Ninja Scroll, Animatrix, Wicked City, Vampire Hunter D), the new Highlander anime was produced by Madhouse Studios (Black Lagoon, Death Note, Paranoia Agent).
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Highlander: Vengeance covers elements of the Highlander saga that were not dealt with in either the movies or the TV series. Director Kawajiri, who is responsible for perhaps the top samurai anime feature of all time (Ninja Scroll), evidently found plenty of similarity between the clannish sword-wielding Scots of Highlander and the clannish sword-wielding samurai of Japan.
source= http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/9914.html
Manga Entertainment is planning to release the 80-minute Highlander: Vengeance anime feature on June 5th in both regular and special editions. Directed by Yoshiaki Kawajiri (Ninja Scroll, Animatrix, Wicked City, Vampire Hunter D), the new Highlander anime was produced by Madhouse Studios (Black Lagoon, Death Note, Paranoia Agent).
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Highlander: Vengeance covers elements of the Highlander saga that were not dealt with in either the movies or the TV series. Director Kawajiri, who is responsible for perhaps the top samurai anime feature of all time (Ninja Scroll), evidently found plenty of similarity between the clannish sword-wielding Scots of Highlander and the clannish sword-wielding samurai of Japan.
source= http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/9914.html
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