Henry Cavill in Talks To Star in The HIGHLANDER Reboot

Man of Steel star Henry Cavill is in talks to join Lionsgate’s Highlander reboot, with John Wick director Chad Stahelski set to helm. The script was written by Ryan Condal and he’s best known for writing Dwayne Johnson's Hercules and the upcoming film Rampage.

The original 1986 Highlander movie starred Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery and Clancy Brown as immortal beings, who are hunting down one another and collecting more power. The classic tagline for the film was “There can be only one.”

There are no details regarding the story for the reboot, but I imagine it will be similar to the story of the original film. This project has been in development for a long time, but with Cavill jumping on board, I’m sure that the project will start moving forward fast.

Stahelski previously talked about the film and said that the reboot was being developed as a trilogy. He explained that they are taking the best story elements from across the franchise and implementing it all into one story that will be spread out across a trilogy of films:

"I think the TV series hit on a lot of great stuff wasn’t in the feature, between the watchers and all the different types of immortals. How do we get this into a feature mode before we dribble it into the TV world? Well, let’s restructure it in parts, let’s look at it like it was a TV show, let’s look at it like it was a high-end trilogy. How to we tell the story of The Gathering, The Quickenings, The Immortals and how do we really build this world out even more so than the original project? That’s what we’re restructuring right now. It’s taking all the good stuff that we had before I was involved in the project from the script; redeveloping the script to give us really good chapters one, two and three; and expanding the world."

He also talked about his vision for the film saying:

"The vision we’re trying to get across and what we’re trying to develop, I equate very close to Star Wars. The first one is a very satisfying ending but it does leave the door open and that’s kind of how I see this. I would really like to expand it over three. I see The Gathering happening over three. It’s tricky, don’t get me wrong, that’s why we’re still developing it. We want to be able to tell three complete stories that all kind of fit. I think the Star Wars trilogy, at least up to The Empire Strikes Back, is a good example of how we want to process it."

I’m a big fan of Cavill, so I’m actually pretty stoked that he is looking to take a lead role in the film. We just don’t know exactly what role he’ll be taking yet.

Source: Deadline