When the unique Highlander made its solution to the massive display screen in 1986, the movie’s sweeping ballad from Queen requested the viewers “Who desires to reside endlessly?” Minimize to trying forward from the 2025 film schedule, and the reply I’m tempted to offer is, “Anybody who needed to see Henry Cavill’s Highlander reboot really occur.”
Nicely it doesn’t look like it’ll be that lengthy earlier than director Chad Stahelski’s imaginative and prescient can be in entrance of us, particularly since Russell Crowe has now been drafted into a fairly spectacular function. The casting coup, introduced by Collider, means that Cavill’s Kryptonian father from Man of Metal can be enjoying fellow immortal Ramirez; which is ideal – regardless of the plain racial distinction.
Performed by Sean Connery within the unique, Ramirez is the person who helps Highlander protagonist Connor MacLeod modify to the custom of decimating his fellow immortals, till there’s just one. As a result of, you see, there can solely be one.
Henry Cavill’s function as Connor (initially performed by Christopher Lambert) would put him in line to as soon as once more be taught from the Gladiator legend, and probably for longer than they labored collectively in Man of Metal. Which, once more, is a purpose to get enthusiastic about Russell Crowe’s potential place on this new spherical of beheadings.
And that is on prime of Highlander’s supposed consideration to lore that’s excited its geeky lead previously. Admittedly, that’s the form of information that distracts one from questioning about Highlander’s earlier finances considerations, which noticed the movie fall into limbo earlier than Amazon-MGM Studios stepped in.
What’s much more enjoyable to ponder is how, after watching the trailer for 1986’s Highlander, it feels like Sean Connery saying some issues that Crowe could or could not have mentioned in Zack Snyder’s 2013 DC reboot. Have a look for your self, and inform me I’m mistaken:
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Look, if Chad Stahelski doesn’t not less than contemplate Adam Lambert and Queen for the soundtrack to Highlander’s reboot, what are we even doing right here? If Russell Crowe’s casting does occur to be for Ramirez, he and Henry Cavill have clearly proven their love for the unique movie’s spirit. That solely makes my hypothetical suggestion above extra legitimate, as a result of who else are you going to belief with “Princes of the Universe?” I believed so.
In the meanwhile, there’s nonetheless plenty of shifting items in play for Highlander to occur. With manufacturing aiming to start out this fall, there’s an opportunity that 2026 or 2027 will see the subsequent period of those immortals hitting the massive display screen. That’s, in fact, if Mr. Cavill’s Warhammer 40,000 adaptation would not get in the best way. So now with two thirds of the most important characters seemingly forged, one query can be occupying our minds till it’s answered: who within the hell goes to play the Kurgan?!