‘Highlander’ Reboot – Henry Cavill is Ready for the Quickening
It’s still on, folks! Henry Cavill confirms he’s about to start training for all the sword battles in the Highlander reboot.
The 1986 movie starring Christopher Lambert (as a person who talks kind of), Sean Connery (as the most Scottish Spaniard/Egyptian in cinema), and Clancy Brown (as The Kurgan) focuses on quasi-immortal beings fighting for power and dominance. It has become a cult classic. I’m sure all of us reading this have made a joke using its famous tagline. It spawned four questionable sequels (especially that last one), some spin-offs, and a TV series.
It’s been 16 years since the last movie came out. It’s been long enough to breathe some new life into the universe – and it’s got a great team.
Highlander Reboot Still in the Works
Henry Cavill was cast as the lead in the Highlander reboot back in 2021, and Chad Stahleski (co-creator of the John Wick franchise) is attached as writer/director. Both are great fits for the franchise. Stahleski knows how to make fantastic action movies, and having an actor like Cavill, who looks the part and can wield a sword, is a dream come true.
Look at him; he belongs in this franchise.
Last year, Stahleski revealed he had a story mapped out and was hammering out the details, which proved to be a big task. He’s working with 40 years of existing lore, characters, and stories.
I’ve worked on Highlander for years now, for Henry Cavill. Being retroactive is hard. What’s different between Wick and that? With Wick, you weren’t serving seven seasons of TV plus two spinoffs plus five films. If I were to do a remake of Highlander right now, you’d expect a lot of mythology in those first two hours; you couldn’t explore stuff without it.
With John Wick: Chapter 4 out of the way, Stahleski has been able to invest more time in the Highlander reboot, and production seems to be gaining momentum. In a recent interview with Collider, Henry Cavill said he’s looking forward to bringing his version of Connor MacLeod to life.
“The training is about to begin in earnest. It’ll be a very long training process, and I’m very excited to get into it. There’s only so much I can tell you at the moment. I want to keep everything under wraps for as long as possible.”
No word on filming dates or a release window just yet. I’m just glad to have news that it’s still being worked on. There have been a ton of movie cancelations and shelvings in the last twelve months. Make the nerds happy; make this happen (but in proportion)…
