Highlander

See also: Highland

Highlander is an American film of Russell Mulcahy left in 1986

Synopsis

1518, Connor MacLeod is born in the High-Grounds from Scotland (in English: Highlands from where the nickname of the character); eighteen years later, he dies during a combat but ressuscite. He learns that he is immortal. Only decapitation can kill it definitively.

1986, the alive immortal last converge all New York worms for a final gathering, in order to gain the Prix , which could be obtained only by the death of all the other immortal ones. Only one, therefore, will be able to survive.

Data sheet

  • Title: Highlander
  • Realization: Russell Mulcahy
  • Scenario: Gregory Widen, Peter Bellwood and Larry Ferguson
  • Music: Michael Kamen, Queen
  • Photography: Gerry Fisher
  • Decoration: Allan Cameron
  • Assembly: Peter Honess
  • Production: Peter S. Davis and William NR. Panzer
    • 20th Century Fox, the U.S.A.
    • EMI Ltd Films., Great Britain
    • Highlander Productions Limited, U.S.A
  • Left: March 26th 1986
  • Kind: Fantastic Action,
  • Format: 1:85.1 35 mm, its Dolby, Color
  • Lasted: 1:55 min
  • Interdict with less than 12 years at its exit in France.

Distribution

  • Christophe Lambert: Connor MacLeod/Russell Edwin Nash
  • Sean Connery: Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez
  • Roxanne Binder: Brenda J. Wyatt
  • Clancy Brown: Kurgan/Victor Kruger
  • Beatie Edney: Heather MacLeod
  • Alan North : Lieutenant Frank Moran
  • Jon Polito: Inspector Walter Bedsoe
  • Sheila Gish: Rachel Ellenstein
  • Hugh Quarshie : Sunda Kastagir
  • Christopher Malcom : Kirk Matunas
  • Peter Diamond: Iman Fasil
  • Billy Hartmann: Dugal MacLeod
  • James Cosmo: Angus MacLeod
  • Celia Imrie : Kate MacLeod
  • Alistair Findlay : Chief Murdoch
  • Edward Wiley: Garfield
  • James McKenna: Father Rainey
  • John Cassady: Kenny
  • Ian Reddington : Bassett
  • Sion Tudor Owen: Hotchkiss

Around film

  • the music of the first opus was entrusted to the group of Rock Queen which left on this occasion the album has Kind Magic off. The credits, also used for the series, are called off Princes the Universe .
  • a Televised series was developed around Duncan MacLeod, cousin of Connor, and play by Adrian Paul: Highlander (televised series).
  • the famous Eilean Donan Castle in Highlands was used as the castle of the clan Mc Leod from which the hero from film is resulting, Connor.

Catalog of films of Highlander

Derivative products

Cartoon films

  • 2006 : Highlander: Search for has Vengeance . Product by the Japanese studios Madhouse Production.

Televised series

Adaptation universe of fiction of film on television. Spin-off of the series of television Highlander.

Cartoon

  • 1994 - 96: Highlander : Series French TV of animation telling the life of Quentin Macleod in the universe of Highlander in an apocalyptic future.
  • 2001 : The Methos Chronicles : Short series of animation in flash, only diffused on Internet reporting an episode of the life of Methos.

Novel

  • Jason Henderson, Highlander: The Element off Fire , Warner Books Inc, July 1st 1997, in English. Available in French.
  • Scimitar, in English.
  • Jennifer Roberson, Highlander: Scotland the Brave , Warner Books, September 1996, in English.
  • The path , in English.
  • Measure Of has Man , in English.
  • Gave Lettow, Highlander: Zealot , Warner Books, November 1997, in English.
  • Rebecca Neason, Highlander: Shadow off Obsession: At Novel , Warner Books, June 1998, in English.
  • Josepha Sherman, Highlander: The Captivates Drunk: At Novel , Warner Books, August 1998, in English.
  • Ginjer Buchanan, Highlander: White Silence , Warner Books March 1999, in English.
  • daN Jordon, Robert McCullough, Martin Eisele (Herausgeber), Hans To summon (Herausgeber), Highlander. Die Rückkehr of Unsterblichen , VGS Verlagsges., K., Mars 1998, in German.

Card deck to be collected

  • Highlander (1995): conceived by Mike Sager published by Thunder Castle Ranges. Play states-unien. Simulate the combat of two immortal.

Video game

See too

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