Henry Cavill Is Ready to Unsheathe His Sword in First Look at Highlander Reboot From John Wick Director Chad Stahelski

Henry Cavill has 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. His overgarment is giving maine Blade Runner vibes.

And yes, that’s Henry Cavill looking each moody portion weilding a sword, which rekindles memories of his relation arsenic Geralt of Rivia successful Netflix’s The Witcher. Cavill near the amusement to reprise his relation arsenic Superman successful James Gunn’s rebooted DC Universe, but it turned retired the histrion had been messed astir by anterior enactment astatine the studio, and the relation went to David Corenswet.

“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” whitethorn beryllium a notation to a limb wounded helium sustained past twelvemonth portion grooming for the film, which delayed accumulation to aboriginal 2026.

Highlander, directed by John Wick’s Chad Stahelski, 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.

The Highlander films and TV bid revolve astir an age-old warfare betwixt immortal warriors who tin lone beryllium killed via beheading. The cult classical 1986 debut movie starred Christopher Lambert arsenic Connor MacLeod, who is trained by Sean Connery’s Ramírez. It fuses past and present-day storylines, switching from 16th period Scottish Highlands to 80s New York.

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 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 Netflix’s 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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