BREAKING: Yet Another Non-Scottish Person Cast as Highlander
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Ryan Reynolds has officially been cast as the new lead in the Highlander franchise reboot — and when I say “official,” I mean “mentioned on a few terrible rumor sites but also reported on a few reasonable movie news sites like Empire, although they technically might have gotten the news from one of the terrible rumor sites, because oddly sites like Variety haven’t mentioned the news yet.” Even if this is true, whether this means Reynolds will be playing Connor MacLeod or a new character — oh, like a random supermarket schlub who discovers he’s immortal or something — is unknown.
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