Henry Cavill may play an immortal, he is not invulnerable. A few weeks before the launch of Highlander’s shooting by Chad Stahelski, all the teams are stopped. Henry Cavill was injured During the preparation and cannot be available for the immediate shots. According to Variety, this injury will repel the deadline at the beginning of 2026a year already particularly busy for the British actor.
Indeed, Cavill is playing with several major projects for the film industry. He must come back to play Sherlock Holmes in Enola Holmes 3 For Netflix, is the head of a new film Voltron For Amazon MGM as well as among the actors summoned to play in the action thriller In the Grey lionsgate. Recall that it is also attached to the Warhammer 40,000 series from Amazon MGM Studios and whose filming appeared to be imminent.
Black series for the project?
The reboot of the franchise Highlander is of his projects which have taken many years to materialize. Chad Stahelski has been working on the film since 2016 and has taken no less than five years to find his headliner. Henry Cavill joined the ship in 2021, launching the writing process. But the strike of actors and screenwriters impacted this development phase.
The first distribution announcements, other than Henry Cavill, only go back to a few months. Everything, however, finally seemed on good rails and Cavill’s injury is a new blow. This delay should already increase the budget as much as threaten the exit envisaged in 2027. With shots at the start of next year, Highlander cannot invest our screens before the Mi or the end of 2027.
It will also be necessary to deal with the jobs of other actors, starting with Russel Crowe, Dave Bautista and Kare Gillian. The latter is also under discussion to resume her role in another major saga: Jumanji. She should find her role in the third film whose filming is scheduled for November. Will it be able to reconcile the two shoots at the beginning of next year? Answer in a few months after the restoration of Cavill.
A reboot that talks about what?
Chad Stahelski’s film will evolve around a new immortal warrior who goes in search of unlimited power. He will be a new member of the McLeord clan, thus joining Christophe Lambert et Adrian Paulrespectively Connor and Duncan in films and the series. Russel Crowe will play the mentor of the main character. His name circulates to embody Ramirez. Finally, Dave Bautista will be the antagonist Kurgan.
Jurd enemy of Connor McLeod who was born near the Caspian Sea and who also covets the power promised to elected warriors who competed for hundreds of years. In the first film, Connor lives under A new identity in New York in 1985. While falling in love with a police scientist, he is challenged by his oldest adversary: the Kurgan. He wants to face it to death and win the prize, a special capacity which is given to the last warrior alive and which will allow him to have vast knowledge as much as the ability to enslave the human race.
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