Henry Cavill's Highlander reboot gets new details as director explains how he convinced The Witcher star to sign up
Nov. 22, 2024“You get to cover quite a broad spread of a character arc there”
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Highlander reboot director Chad Stahelski has revealed some new details about the movie’s plot – and how he convinced leading man Henry Cavill to join the project.
“We’re bringing it forward from the early 1500s in the Highlands to the beyond present-day New York and Hong Kong, and seeing how it goes,” Stahelski, who’s best known for helming the John Wick movies, toldThe Direct. “There’s big opportunity for action. There’s a chance to play a character that not a lot of people get to play. And it’s a bit of a love story, but not how you think. On John Wick, I learned a lot on how to bend the storytelling a little.”
He added that he convinced Cavill to come on board with the intensity and scope of the character. “My selling point was, to [Cavill], look, you’ve got a guy that’s been alive for over 500 years. He’s the last person in the world that wanted to be in this situation. So you get to cover quite a broad spread of a character arc there. And you get to experience someone that’s trained over 500 years and sort of played [with many types of] martial arts.”
The Highlander reboot doesn’t have a release date yet. While we wait for more updates, check out our guide to the other bestupcoming movieson the way.
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