The movie Highlander is to receive a special screening at this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival.
The movie, a time travelling yarn featuring immortal warriors, set in New York and the Highlands and featuring Christopher Lambert, is receiving the screening to mark its 30th anniversary.
It will take place on 18 June, as part of the EIFF’s 70th festival celebrations.
The movie, to be shown in a new restored version, features a celebrated soundtrack from Queen and a memorable turn from Sean Connery as a Spanish warrior, while Clancy Brown plays the enemy, the Kurgan.
Brown said: “It’s taken a while, but I swore to myself that I would return again to Scotland after filming Highlander 30 years ago where I first learned of Robert the Bruce, James Macpherson, The Fortingall Yew and, most blissfully, single-malt scotch whisky."
Mark Adams, Artistic Director of the EIFF, said: “We are truly delighted to be screening this cult classic on its 30th anniversary. "It is a vibrant, fun and thrilling film and just as entertaining as it was all of those years ago.
"Plus it features some magnificent Scottish locations. This will be a great celebratory event for the 70th edition of EIFF.”
Clancy Brown and other special guests will be in attendance at the screening at Cineworld, Fountain Park.
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.
heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment.
We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.
That is invaluable.
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules here