5 Star

There Can Only be One!

In 1986 Highlander burst onto our silver screens, and changed cinematography forever, this genre changing story written by Gregory Widen (Backdraft, Highlander II: The Quickening), Peter Bellwood (Annie, the Women in the Life of a Man (TV Special), La Femme Nikita (TV Series)), and Larry Ferguson (The Hunt for Red October, Alien³). Gregory and Peter would both go on to write the sequel. Russell Mulcahy would also direct this break-through film and the sequel, he started out filming visually stunning videos for bands like Duran Duran and Queen, and he brought us that iconic video for the best-selling number 2 record Ultravox: Vienna, but crossed over to the feature film industry with the comedy, ‘Derek and Clive Get the Horn’ then Resident Evil: Extinction, he even took his talents to the small screen as well with Teen Wolf (TV Series).

Madison Square Garden and there is an elaborate wrestling tag team match going on and thrilling the massive crowd, but up in the gods a man looks bored. He is Connor MacLeod (Christopher Lambert, Kickboxer: Retaliation, Mortal Kombat), a man with a very long past, but at this moment he is thinking of his future, and whether or not it is about to come to an end. He is drawn to the depths of the car park. His destiny awaits in the form of an old enemy Iman Fasil (Peter Diamond, Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope, Superman IV: The Quest for Peace) who awaits him with his very rare Toledo Salamanca Sword which is countered by MacLeod’s Ramirez Katana. A sword fight ensues in the dark basement car park, until MacLeod takes Fasil’s head clean off his shoulders. Then we see Fasil’s body giving off a massive energy surge, destroying cars until MacLeod absorbs the energy.

Connor MacLeod is no ordinary man he is an immortal, and he can only be killed by his head leaving his neck. He learned this five hundred years earlier from his mentor Juan Sánchez-Villalobos Ramírez (Sean Connery, Outland, Time Bandits). In five hundred years he has had many and various life-times, but in this one his main problem is metallurgist and police forensics officer Brenda Wyatt (Roxanne Hart, Pulse, The Verdict) who is looking for a sword that shouldn’t exist.

There is also someone looking for MacLeod, a fellow immortal, the all round bad guy The Kurgan (Clancy Brown, The Mortuary, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension) who is determined to be the last immortal standing.

 

This release by StudioCanal is the definitive version of Highlander and with all the extra features and books (See Below) this deserves to be on your 1980s 4K UHD shelf.

Highlander
Collector’s Edition

Is available on 4K UHD

 

 

The Collector’s Edition Boxset will contain the following:

Brand-new artwork by Sophie Bland

Removable O-ring with additional info

Rigid slipcase with new artwork – displayable as clean artwork

2 disc digipak

2 posters

100-page collector’s booklet (new essays and production materials)

84-page booklet. From Script to Screen: In Search of Lost Scenes & Forgotten Immortals. This will include excepts from the script (scenes that were never filmed and scenes that changed drastically from page to screen) along with new analysis from Highlander expert Jonathan Melville

32-page booklet produced by Titan comics

 

Special Features:

UHD Disc

THE IMMORTAL ATTRACTION OF HIGHLANDER: Looking back at four decades of Highlander magic

A KIND OF MAGIC: MUSIC OF THE IMMORTALS: A featurette on the Soundtrack

CAPTURING IMMORTALITY: Interview with photographer David James

THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE KURGAN: Clancy Brown remembers Highlander

Audio Commentary with author Jonathan Melville

Audio Commentary with Russell Mulcahy

Audio Commentary with Russell Mulcahy, William Panzer, and Peter Davis

BD Disc

Interview with Russell Mulcahy

Interview with Christopher Lambert

Making of Documentary in 4 Parts

Deleted Scenes

Audio Commentary with Russell Mulcahy

Trailer