Motion-adventure followers have been ready a very long time for director Chad Stahelski and star Henry Cavill’s Highlander reboot (at this fee, being an immortal may really feel like the one method you’re ever going to really see it), and sadly it feels like we’re all going to be ready somewhat longer. As per a report by Redanian Intelligence, manufacturing of the Highlander reboot has now been delayed as a consequence of Cavill’s new position within the upcoming Voltron film for Amazon MGM Studios.
However, earlier than you throw your sword into the air and scream on the sky, the report does reveal that Highlander remains to be set to enter manufacturing in 2025. The fantasy epic has reportedly been “delayed from January 2025 to Could 2025,” with earlier delays being as a consequence of Stahelski’s reshooting “a really significant slice of Ballerina, the John Wick spinoff.”
On the optimistic aspect of issues, the report goes on to state that “very early pre-production for Highlander has already began in September and may decide up as time goes on. Meant filming areas for the film embody Scotland, Italy and Hong Kong, which means location scouting has been happening as effectively.”
Henry Cavill Has Teased His Main Function within the Highlander Reboot
Whereas particulars stay underneath wraps, the Highlander reboot is predicted to observe an analogous plot to the 1986 authentic, which follows swordsman Connor MacLeod as he discovers that he’s one in every of quite a lot of immortal warriors who might be killed solely by beheading. After dwelling considerably peacefully for a number of centuries, MacLeod settles in New York Metropolis and is quickly dragged again onto the battlefield when his best enemy returns to kill him and thus receive “the Prize.”
Man of Metal and The Witcher star Henry Cavill will lead the reboot, and he has revealed that the film will delve a lot “deeper” into the lore of the immortal warriors than any earlier iteration of the franchise.
“I’m gonna should reply that very rigorously. I used to be a Highlander fan. They had been nice enjoyable films. Clearly, I watched them once I was loads youthful, and since rewatched. But additionally the TV present. I actually loved the lore behind it. That type of sense of a tragic warrior, with extra of a narrative to inform than only a cool man with a cool sword doing cool issues. And this goes even deeper into that.”
Associated
Henry Cavill Is the Highlander in Epic Reboot Idea Trailer
This Highlander trailer imagines what the Henry Cavill-led reboot may seem like.
Director Chad Stahelski, in the meantime, has beforehand heaped reward on his Highlander main man, revealing that the actor is raring to discover “the burden of immortality.”
“The character’s arc spans a whole bunch of years and he turns into many alternative personalities, all of which lengthen the timeline of his emotional progress. Then throughout our first assembly, my suspicions had been confirmed: Henry was instantly riffing on the concept of the burden of immortality and you can see in his eyes that he can remodel himself from being a younger, vibrant soul to an previous, sensible soul. He had this mixture I used to be fascinated by.”
- Launch Date
- March 7, 1986
- Runtime
- 110
- Writers
- Gregory Widen , Peter Bellwood , Larry Ferguson
- Tagline
- There might be just one.