Henry Cavill's Highlander Reboot From John Wick Director 'Definitely One for the Fans,' Star Teases 'Insane' Fight Scenes

As filming for the Highlander reboot starring Henry Cavill continues, 1 of its stars has hyped up the enactment scenes fans tin expect to see, portion confirming 1 large quality change.

Siobhán Cullen plays Brenda successful this caller Highlander movie, directed by John Wick’s Chad Stahelski. The cult classical 1986 Highlander, starring Christopher Lambert arsenic immortal Scottish warrior Connor MacLeod and Sean Connery arsenic his mentor, Juan Sánchez-Villalobos Ramírez, saw Roxanne Hart play NYC forensic idiosyncratic Brenda Wyatt.

In the archetypal movie, Brenda follows Connor hoping to marque consciousness of his mysterious sword. She yet uncovers the information of not conscionable Connor’s past, but his immortality.

In an interrogation with Deadline, Cullen said the Brenda we’ll spot successful the caller Highlander is “totally different.”

“We find her astatine a antithetic clip successful her life,” she added. “We find her getting into occupation and erstwhile she meets Connor connected a pivotal night, arsenic a mortal, she gets swept up successful the satellite of immortals. Because she is mortal successful this immortal world, she’s benignant of the eyes of the assemblage due to the fact that she is being introduced into this full caller world, which wholly upends her full knowing of humanity and clip and what’s possible.”

What “getting into trouble” means successful this discourse is anyone’s guess, but to maine it sounds similar she isn’t a NYC forensic idiosyncratic this clip around.

Stahelski’s Highlander is described arsenic “John Wick with swords,” and fixed Henry Cavill is already acquainted with swordfighting from his clip playing Geralt successful Netflix’s The Witcher, I ideate he’s the cleanable acceptable for Connor. This Highlander is acceptable successful beyond present-day New York and Hong Kong, with Cavill acceptable to play a sword maestro who’s been live for implicit 500 years, grooming successful each sorts of martial arts on the way.

Cullen besides hyped up the action, saying the movie is “definitely 1 for the fans,” adding: “some of the warring scenes I’ve seen are conscionable insane.”

“It’s breathtaking to enactment with idiosyncratic who is truthful fluent successful the connection of action, and it’s similar there’s this full different publication that’s happening that is parallel to our dialogue,” she continued. “The subtext and unthinkable item to quality is unthinkable and I’m conscionable a keen student.”

In January, Cavill posted a archetypal look astatine his quality successful the Highlander reboot. The erstwhile Superman histrion took to Instagram to uncover 2 images, below, of himself successful character. As you’d expect from a Highlander movie, Cavill carries a sword. It looks similar he’s successful Hong Kong successful the archetypal photo, and New York successful the second.

“Happy First Look for Highlander!” Cavill said alongside the photos. “This has been rather the travel for me, which I'll archer you each astir erstwhile the clip is right, but it's a peculiar infinitesimal to beryllium capable to stock this. I anticipation you enjoy.” Cavill’s notation of Highlander being “quite the journey” is astir apt a notation to a limb wounded helium sustained past twelvemonth portion grooming for the film, which delayed accumulation to aboriginal 2026.

Stahelski has offered a vague communicative setup: "We're bringing it guardant from the aboriginal 1500s successful the highlands to the beyond present-day New York and Hong Kong, and seeing however it goes. There's large accidental for action. There's a accidental to play a quality that not a batch of radical get to play. And it's a spot of a emotion story, but not however you think. On John Wick, I learned a batch connected however to crook the storytelling a little... different benignant of myth."

And connected Cavill’s character, Stahelski added: "My selling constituent was, to [Henry Cavill], look, you've got a feline that's been live for implicit 500 years. He's the past idiosyncratic successful the satellite that wanted to beryllium successful this situation. So you get to screen rather a wide dispersed of a quality arc there. And you get to acquisition idiosyncratic that's trained implicit 500 years and benignant of played [with galore types of] martial arts..."

In September, Deadline reported that WWE prima Drew McIntyre, who hails from Ayrshire, Scotland, volition play Angus MacLeod, member to Cavill’s Connor MacLeod. He joins Russell Crowe, Karen Gillan, Djimon Hounsou, Dave Bautista, Marisa Abela, and Max Zhang successful the reboot.

In August past year, Stahelski suggested the Highlander reboot could beryllium the commencement of thing big. “I deliberation we person immoderate precise bully elements now,” helium said. “The instrumentality is erstwhile you person the tagline ‘there tin lone beryllium one,' you can’t conscionable termination everybody the archetypal time.”

He continued: “Our communicative engages a batch of the aforesaid characters and worldly similar that,” Stahelski continued. “But we’ve besides brought successful elements of each the TV shows, and we’re trying to bash a spot of a prequel, a setup to The Gathering, truthful we person country to turn the property.”

In Highlander, The Gathering is simply a summoning that forces the immortal warriors to look each different successful what's called the Game.

“I've been a instrumentality of Highlander since I was a lad,” said Cavill connected Instagram erstwhile the movie was announced successful 2021. “From the movies successful each of their 80s, Queen slathered glory to the TV amusement with an histrion who looked remarkably similar 1 of my brothers. Being not shy with swords, and having a manager arsenic talented arsenic Chad Stahelski astatine the helm, this is an accidental similar nary other.”

In April 2024, Cavill bigged-up his grooming for the Highlander movie, promising adjacent much awesome sword skills than helium demonstrated successful The Witcher. "If you thought you’d seen maine bash swordwork before, you haven't seen thing yet," Cavill said.

Image credit: Henry Cavill / Instagram.

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