Russell Crowe has joined the forged of “Highlander,” the reboot of the ’80s motion movie that can star Henry Cavill and is being directed by “John Wick” filmmaker Chad Stahelski, a person with information of the challenge advised IndieWire.
“Highlander” has been within the works for a while, however it not too long ago moved from Lionsgate to Amazon MGM Studios, which is now planning to launch it theatrically. Former Netflix movie chief Scott Stuber is producing the movie for Amazon MGM’s newly launched United Artists banner. UA now has the complete rights to the challenge and franchise and hopes to show it into a brand new sequence of movies.
The unique “Highlander” from 1986 starred Christopher Lambert and Sean Connery and adopted the climax of an historical battle between immortal warriors, one unfolding via interwoven previous and present-day storylines. It’s a cult basic that has spawned a number of sequels and a TV sequence. Michael Finch, who wrote “John Wick: Chapter 4,” is penning the remake.
Director Russell Mulcahy directed the unique “Highlander,” and the movie was produced by Peter S. Davis and William N. Panzer.
UA’s Scott Stuber and Nick Nesbitt will produce alongside Neal H. Moritz, 87Eleven Leisure, Stahelski’s manufacturing banner, Josh Davis of Davis Panzer Productions, and Louise Rosner.
Crowe, who gained Finest Actor on the Oscars for “Gladiator,” will subsequent be seen in “Nuremberg” for director James Vanderbilt, which Sony Photos Classics simply acquired for launch. He additionally not too long ago wrapped the thriller “Unabom” for Netflix, a Chilly Warfare thriller referred to as “Billion Greenback Spy,” and an motion thriller “Bear Nation.”
Russell Crowe is represented by Brillstein Leisure Companions and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman, Smelkinson & Christopher, LLP.
Collider first reported the information.