John Wick Director Hopes To Reinvent Swordfighting While Rebooting The Highlander Franchise

John Wick franchise director Chad Stahelski recently spoke with Entertainment Weekly about his hopes to reinvent sword fighting in a reboot of the Highlander franchise…

“I’m very interested in doing the Highlander property, It’s scarily similar to John Wick. There’s a great mythology, it’s got an action-design challenge. What would a guy really be like after 500 years of practicing sword-work? I’m still a stunt guy at heart. You want to reinvent gunfights, how do you do it? You want to reinvent swordfighting, how do you do it? And that’s where we are at now. I love the first Highlander and I think I’m in a pretty good spot. The creative team, the producers and the studio that’s behind it have kind of said, ‘It’s yours to play with.’”