(Left) Jeremy Irons stars as Wallace Westwyld in director David Ayer’s ‘The Beekeeper,’ an Amazon MGM Studios movie. Photograph Credit score: Daniel Smith. © 2024 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Footage Inc. All Rights Reserved. (Proper) Christopher Lambert as Connor MacLeod in 1986’s ‘Highlander.’ Photograph: twentieth Century Fox.
Preview:
- Jeremy Irons is boarding the brand new ‘Highlander’.
- Henry Cavill is starring alongside Russell Crowe.
- Chad Stahelski is within the director’s chair.
Although the cameras might not have began rolling final month as initially deliberate due to star Henry Cavill injuring himself throughout coaching, the ‘Highlander’ reboot continues to be shifting ahead, aiming to start manufacturing early subsequent yr.
And the newest piece of casting has been introduced through The Hollywood Reporter, as Jeremy Irons –– who was an antagonist in ‘The Beekeeper’ and is ready to reprise the function within the sequel and is on our screens because the troubled legislation professor father of Jennifer Aniston’s character in ‘The Morning Present’, has joined the film to play a villain.
Irons joins a forged that additionally already contains Russell Crowe, Karen Gillan, ‘Black Bag’s Marisa Abela and ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’s Dave Bautista, who’s aboard as a model of the villainous Kurgan
When it does lastly kick off, capturing is scheduled to happen in Scotland, England, and different locales akin 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 unique revolves round Connor MacLeod (Christopher Lambert), a Scottish Highlander born within the sixteenth Century who’s by some means immortal. He has survived by means of 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 ability of the slain immortal is absorbed into the victor, and they’re all competing for “The Prize” –– sufficient energy to rule Earth perpetually. Connor’s largest risk is the Kurgan, a murderous brute of an immortal who needs that energy for himself and Connor should face him at an occasion often known as The Gathering.
There can, because the tagline famously reads, solely be one.
Stahelski on the story for the brand new film
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 Photos for Lionsgate.
Right here’s what Stahelski needed to say in regards to the plot and modifications:
“We’re bringing it ahead from the early 1500s within the Highlands to the past present-day New York and Hong Kong. There’s massive 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 thus far seen work from Ryan J. Condal, Michael Finch and Kerry Williamson.
Finch’s script is the newest draft, and it’s taking some diversions from the unique because it builds out a extra complicated and deeper world.
Cavill is MacLeod, with Crowe as a model of Ramirez. Bautista is enjoying the Kurgan, the film’s prime villain, whereas Gillan is MacLeod’s Scottish and really mortal spouse. Djimon Hounsou is an immortal warrior from Africa, whereas Abela is MacLeod’s trendy romantic curiosity. Max Zhang and Drew McIntyre are additionally within the forged, with McIntyre taking the function of Cavill’s brother.
Irons would be the film’s different antagonist, the chief of a secret order known as The Watchers, who’re maintaining a tally of the immortals and see them as a risk to humanity.
When will the brand new ‘Highlander’ be on screens?
Amazon MGM Studios has but to substantiate a launch date for the film, and it might but seem later given the manufacturing delay.
(L to R) Sean Connery as Juan Sánchez-Villalobos Ramírez and Christopher Lambert as Connor MacLeod in 1986’s ‘Highlander.’ Photograph: twentieth Century Fox.