Peter Briggs - Connection To The Highlander Franchise

Connection To The Highlander Franchise

Briggs, who is on record as stating he is a huge fan of the 1986 film Highlander, was asked by the producers of the film, William Panzer and Peter Davis, to help set-up Highlander: The Series. Despite having contributed major strands to the show (including the invention of the "Watcher" subplot), Briggs received no credit from the two producers.

Years later, Briggs was hired by Dimension Films to write a new draft for Highlander: The Source - the fourth sequel in the franchise. Briggs anonymously joined the message boards at the official Highlander website to help research what fans of the franchise would want in another film. Under the screenname Everpresent Scribe, Briggs introduced himself only as someone with access to the script. In the following months, Briggs posted several pages of his script for the fans to read and gauge their reactions. Fan reception to both drafts of his script were very positive.

Despite having contributed two drafts to Dimension, the movie company folded, and the rights to the property were transferred to Lionsgate Films. The final film, which was reworked by other writers and contained virtually none of the material Briggs created, was the first in the franchise to go straight to video, and was extremely poorly received.

Briggs still occasionally returns to the message board, where he is one of the most popular members.