(Left) Dave Bautista stars in ‘Within the Misplaced Lands’. (Proper) Clancy Brown as The Kurgan in ‘Highlander’. Photograph: twentieth Century Fox.
Preview:
- Dave Bautista is making a deal to affix the brand new ‘Highlander’.
- Henry Cavill is starring alongside Russell Crowe.
- ‘John Wick’ veteran Chad Stahelski will direct.
Add yet another to the ever-growing forged of Chad Stahelski’s ‘Highlander’ reboot, which stars Henry Cavill. In response to Deadline, Dave Bautista –– who had been rumored beforehand –– is now formally making a deal to affix the forged.
An immortal Scottish swordsman faces off with different immortal warriors with the intention to receive a coveted skill; Mortality. Learn the Plot
Bautista shall be enjoying a model of the villainous Kurgan (extra on him beneath, as performed within the 1986 authentic by Clancy Brown).
He joins a forged that additionally already consists of Russell Crowe and ‘Black Bag’s Marisa Abela.
Manufacturing is because of start in September, with capturing to happen in Scotland, England, and different locales corresponding to Hong Kong.
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What was the story of ‘Highlander’?
(L to R) Christopher Lambert as Connor MacLeod and Clancy Brown as The Kurgan in ‘Highlander’. Photograph: twentieth Century Fox.
The 1988 authentic revolves round Connor MacLeod (Christopher Lambert), a Scottish Highlander born within the sixteenth Century who’s in some way immortal. He has survived via the centuries, and learns from Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez (Sean Connery), that he’s a part of a race of many who can solely die when beheaded.
The facility of the slain immortal is absorbed into the victor, and they’re all competing for “The Prize” –– sufficient energy to rule Earth endlessly. Connor’s largest risk is the Kurgan, a murderous brute of an immortal who desires that energy for himself and Connor should face him at an occasion often called The Gathering.
There can, because the tagline famously reads, solely be one.
Directed by Russell Mulcahy, the primary movie is taken into account a cult traditional, dividing audiences into those that adore it and people who assume it’s so dangerous it’s nice. The film is legendary for its sword fights and its Queen-composed soundtrack.
Stahelski on his plans
Chad Stahelski attends ‘Wick Is Ache’ Screening At Past Fest at Aero Theatre on Could 08, 2025 in Santa Monica, California. Photograph: Jon Kopaloff/Getty Photographs for Lionsgate.
Right here’s what Stahelski needed to say about his concepts:
“ ‘Highlander,’ I’ll let you know, if we get our s**t collectively and pull off a characteristic, we now have concepts for days in regards to the coolest characters and the best way to make that an epic TV present. I simply assume that’s a wealthy, wealthy mythology. Our story engages a whole lot of the identical characters and stuff like that. However we’ve additionally introduced in parts of all of the TV reveals, and we’re making an attempt to do a little bit of a prequel, a setup to The Gathering, so we now have room to develop the property.”
As for the story:
“We’re bringing it ahead from the early 1500s within the Highlands to the past present-day New York and Hong Kong. There’s large alternative for motion… and it’s a little bit of a love story — however not the way you assume.”
The script for the brand new film has to date seen work from Ryan J. Condal, Michael Finch and Kerry Williamson.
Dave Bautista Additionally Joins ‘Street Home 2’
Deadline’s report additionally makes point out that Bautista may also be becoming a member of the forged of the sequel to Amazon MGM’s ‘Street Home ’, for which we beforehand reported he was in talks.
He’ll seem reverse Jake Gyllenhaal for the brand new film, which has ‘No person’s Ilya Naishuller directing.
(L to R) Conor McGregor and Jake Gyllenhaal stars in ‘Roadhouse.’ Photograph: Laura Radford © Amazon Content material Companies LLC.