Highlander Signs Up a Director

28 Weeks Later helmer Juan Carlos Fresnadillo is set to direct the re-imagining of Highlander for Summit Entertainment. Art Marcum and Matt Holloway wrote the script with Neal H Moritz, Peter Davis, Enrique López Lavigne and Belen Atienza producing.
 
Summit’s had the project in their stable since 2008 when they purchased the rights from Davis – Panzer Productions, Inc. The studio’s now hoping to get the film into production next spring.
 
The Story:
 
In Highlander, after centuries of dueling to survive against others like him, Connor MacLeod, an immortal Scottish swordsman must confront the last of his kind, a murderously brutal barbarian, who lusts for the Prize.
 
Source: Summit Entertainment