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SCI FI Channel has added two movies to its 2007 production slate, including one starring Highlanders Adrian Paul, and given the green light to another three for development as part of the new Saturday-night programming block called "SCI FI Saturday: The Most Dangerous Night of Television."
The following films are scheduled to premiere in 2007: The Lost Colony, starring Paul, about the age-old mystery surrounding the lost colony of Roanoke, and King Arthur & The Order of the Dragon, written by Tim Cox and Brook Durham Mammoth and chronicling the quest for the Holy Grail.
Oh, boy. Yes, yes, you know I was a Highlander fan. You know my husband David and I met at a Highlander convention. I've been to several of them, I watched every episode multiple times, I used to host an AOL chat twice a week, I still subscribe to HIGHLA-L and have a place on the Geezer's Porch.
But this is not welcome news… we've been having a lovely snarkfest regarding the upcoming Highlander movie (the franchise that would not die, unless you remove its head from its shoulders!). Most of us are not in favor of wasting money on seeing the next movie, as much as we love the cast members or feel nostalgia for the good old days. We're hoping that if no one sees the movie, the producers will finally be prevented from making yet another sequel. We'd rather not see any more, thank you very much, if they're only going to continue their death spiral into cinematic crapfestival inglory. In immortal terms, such a death spiral translates into an eternal holding pattern, and nobody wants that.
I can't remember if anyone on the list had noted that Adrian was filming a SciFi movie. Their response after I posted an item there was predictably "Meh!"
Not that SciFi movies are terribly important events or culturally significant. They're responsible for keeping Dean Cain supplied with Chee-tos and beer, but that's about it.