Dave Bautista To Play Villain In Henry Cavill’s Highlander Reboot

The Henry Cavill-led Highlander reboot has discovered its villain. The upcoming Amazon MGM Studios mission shall be a remake of the unique 1986 film of the identical identify, about an immortal Scottish Highlander who battles varied supernatural entities.

The unique film starred Christopher Lambert because the Scottish immortal Connor MacLeod, who’s working as an antiques vendor in New York on the time when the film begins, and Sean Connery because the Egyptian immortal Juan Sánchez-Villalobos Ramírez, who turns into MacLeod’s mentor. Cavill and Russell Crowe will play these roles respectively within the Highlander reboot.

Now, per The Hollywood Reporter, it has been confirmed that the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Dave Bautista shall be taking part in the reboot’s major antagonist. Bautista’s character is reportedly the immortal referred to as The Kurgan, who was performed by Clancy Brown within the 1986 film.

What This Means For Highlander

Dave Bautista is an actor and former skilled wrestler whose best-known big-screen function is most definitely that of the overly literal alien warrior Drax the Destroyer within the MCU’s Guardians of the Galaxy films. Nevertheless, despite the fact that that character is heroic, he has performed his justifiable share of villains and morally grey characters.

Considered one of his most notable early villain roles is that of Mr. Hinx within the 2015 James Bond film Spectre. Hinx was an murderer who labored with the film’s important antagonist, Blofeld (Christoph Waltz), and occupied a henchman place that’s widespread all through the franchise, as seen with characters resembling Oddjob and Jaws.

Different villainous or morally grey characters Bautista has performed embody Baron Harkonnen’s nephew Glossu Rabban in 2021’s Dune, the boys’s rights activist Duke Cody in 2022’s Glass Onion: A Knives Out Thriller, and the regretful dwelling invader Leonard in 2023’s Knock on the Cabin.

All of those roles mixed have most definitely ready him effectively to painting the villain within the Highlander reboot.

Our Take On Dave Bautista Becoming a member of Highlander

Dave Bautista is a bodily imposing presence who will imbue the character with a really completely different really feel than Clancy Brown did within the authentic Highlander film. Whereas each stars are greater than six toes tall, Brown’s model of the character was extra lean and imposing slightly than bodily highly effective.

Nevertheless, this alteration to the character is sensible as a result of the Henry Cavill film has a lead who’s equally extra bodily imposing than Lambert’s authentic protagonist. Bringing in Bautista will put each characters on a extra even taking part in discipline within the upcoming Highlander, making the menace that The Kurgan poses to MacLeod really feel extra viable and potent.