John Wick director Chad Stahelski has been engaged on a reboot of the fantasy motion movie Highlander for years, and Henry Cavill is about to star in it. Stahelski has talked in regards to the movie describing it as being John Wick with swords, which sounds badass.
Cavill just lately teased the movie saying that it’s going to be “a serious ride.” This comes as he’s revealed in different interviews that he is began his exercise routine to get into form for the movie. When requested what we are able to count on from the challenge, he briefly shared with CB:
“I’m not going to answer that just yet. There’s a lot of work to be done yet on my part. It’s going to be a serious ride, I’ll tell you that much.”
While Cavill isn’t saying a lot, the director beforehand talked about Highlander saying will embody each acquainted characters and “elements” taken from the ‘90s TV collection: “We’re looking to do our story [and it] engages a lot of the same characters and stuff like that. But we’ve also brought in elements of all the TV shows. We’re trying to do a bit of a prequel setup to The Gathering.”
The Gathering refers to the culmination of the near-eternal battle among immortals. He went on to explain they are setting this whole thing up to expand and grow the story: “So, we’ve room to develop the property. We have concepts for days about how to make the good characters and to make that an epic TV present. I simply suppose that’s a wealthy, wealthy mythology.”
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.”
Stahelski also said 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 believe the TV collection hit on a lot of nice stuff wasn’t within the function, between the watchers and all of the several types of immortals. How can we get this into a function mode earlier than we dribble it into the TV world? Well, let’s restructure it in elements, let’s take a look at it prefer it was a TV present, let’s take a look at it prefer it was a high-end trilogy. How to we inform the story of The Gathering, The Quickenings, The Immortals and the way do we actually construct this world out much more so than the unique challenge? That’s what we’re restructuring proper now. It’s taking all the great things that we had earlier than I used to be concerned within the challenge from the script; redeveloping the script to give us actually good chapters one, two and three; and increasing the world.”
He also talked about his vision for the film, saying:
“The imaginative and prescient we’re making an attempt to get throughout and what we’re making an attempt to develop, I equate very shut to Star Wars. The first one is a very satisfying ending however it does depart the door open and that’s type of how I see this. I would like to increase it over three. I see The Gathering taking place over three. It’s tough, don’t get me incorrect, that’s why we’re nonetheless growing it. We need to have the opportunity to inform three full tales that every one type of match. I believe the Star Wars trilogy, at the very least up to The Empire Strikes Back, is a good instance of how we wish to course of it.”
It was revealed that the film is aiming for a 2026 release date. Are you excited about this movie?
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