Director Alex Proyas raves about company remaking Highlander

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This is a good sign. Proyas has had enormous difficulty working with studios in the past and he thinks the gang at Summit is top notch:

Quint: Do you think in ten years time you will be able to scrounge together a different cut of that movie?

Alex Proyas: The irony is that I am still proud of that movie and I actually feel I made the best possible movie I could have made; it was just the personal toll that it took on me to get to that point. It’s not like I would change the movie very much really. The process was just so unpleasant and difficult and unnecessarily so and I am not the only guy in the world who has Fox stories to tell, but this experience has been diametrically opposite to that. Summit, who I think are going to be a highly regarded genre studio, because they really respect genre movies and they have given me an immense freedom and at the same time an extraordinary support, so that has really reignited my belief in that there are good guys out there that you can actually work with as a filmmaker.

Now if only they can continue the relationship and sign Proyas to Highlander...