It’s one concept that could have an amazing expanded “universe” of characters.
I looked up if there were any novels but the one I saw didn’t look great.
The Lore of Highlander and the first movie are phenomenal though. The sequel? Not so much. Let’s pretend like that isn’t canon.
It isn't lol. The show became Canon
There was one after End Game called The Source. That one was Syfy movie channel bad.
You should watch the first one and then the anime. The anime is honestly done well. The director was involved in Vampire D Bloodlust, Ninja Scroll and other classics.
The source is worse than highlander 2, and that's a bar I never thought i would see the limbo on
What's wrong with the live action show?
The show is arguably as good as the first movie
The show, until the finale of season 5 was phenomenal for its day. I still go back and watch the show every 5 or 6 years.
The first season was a tad slow and cookie cutter. Duncan Macleod meets villain, Duncan beheads villain
Season 2 ramped the storyline in a new direction with the watchers and it worked great.
Seasons 3 and 4 are some of the GOAT highlander stuff.
Season 5 had some amazing episodes, but it started showing age and going in some absurd directions and had more of what i call "wiener" episodes, and that's saying something considering its a show about immortals who can only die by beheading. Season 6 you could tell was going to be the end of the road for this show.
If it had just been released as some standalone wacky sci fi action thing that didn't have to make all that much sense...then it's not that bad.
But it has been decades and I still can't believe that it was written as a sequel to Highlander.
I have never seen anything else like this that I can think of in the history of film. It would be like if...Jaws 2 came out and it turned out the shark from the first movie was actually a robot transformer from the moon and by the way Robert Shaw is back because he was from the moon too.
Christopher Lambert tried to get Clancy Brown to come back for the sequel. Clancy read the script and was like...wtf is this shit?
Scifi often gets into believing the crap critics write sadly. Critics will just rant about everything being bland and unoriginal and demand writers take things in new directions for sequels and it usually backfires.
I mean sometimes it works. Fucking James Cameron took Alien, a phenomenal suspense thriller and said "ok, we have seen 1 alien vs a bunch of regular pussies on a ship, now let's multiply them and send in the marines" and it worked like a fucking charm.
but usually, instead you get shit like.....highlander 2, Chronicles of Riddick and predator 2
The show with Duncan. Adrian Paul. That was great.
The one with the female was a spin off from the show. She was a character on it. Okay character to make a spin off about, but the spin off was really meh. What everyone really wanted was a spin off for the Methos character.
highlander: The Raven
And yeah that show sucked. For one, Rebecca wasn't a fucking highlander. She's an immortal girl from France turned thief. On the show she worked in small doses.
Highlander season 6 had like 6 Episodes where they test ran different female immortals for the spinoff show and none of them did any good, so they just went with Amanda. A girl who regularly got her ass kicked on the show and had to be saved by Duncan lol