Summit has tapped up-and-comer Cedric Nicolas-Troyan to direct its upcoming remake of Highlander , the adventure fantasy epic about a sword-wielding Scottish immortal named Connor MacLeod. The studio is now moving ahead with a script by Iron Man writers Art Marcum and Matt Holloway. According to Deadline , the story will remain very faithful to the 1986 Russell Mulcahy-directed original.

Christopher Lambert as Connor MacLeod in the original Highlander

Although Nicolas-Troyan isn't exactly new to the biz -- he was most recently a visual effects supervisor and second unit director on Snow White and the Huntsman -- Highlander will mark his directorial debut. He's also a massive fan of the Highlander franchise."I have been working on my pitch for this since the summer, and when I got there I met the original producer and I just started geeking out and he loved it," Nicolas-Troyan told Deadline. "The first movie came out when I was a teenager in France and it was one of my favorite films of those years. I loved the series also, they shot a lot of it in France, on the Seine River.On the reboot, he explained, "My first reaction, like everybody else, was, really, do we need a remake? Then I read the script, and I thought about how Russell Mulcahy was this super visual video director who brought the pulse of the '80s to the film so well. I started thinking about taking those great characters and matching them with a modern, visceral take, and then I was in love with the idea and I just went for it."Nicolas-Troyan will next do a fast pass on the script before casting and moving into production, which is slated for 2014.

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