Henry Cavill has reportedly been injured while preparing to film Highlander.
Henry Cavill has reportedly been injured whilst training for the Highlander reboot
It is understood that the 42-year-old actor hurt himself – with the nature of his injury not known – during training for the Amazon MGM Studios’ United Artists film, Deadline reports.
Due to Cavill’s claimed injury, the publication reports that shooting for the Chad Stahelski-directed revival of the hit 1986 action-fantasy film will be delayed until 2026.
The original Highlander starred Christopher Lambert as MacLeod and followed the Scottish swordsman who discovers he is immortal before finding himself in a battle across centuries with other born immortals, including the evil Kurgan.
The franchise produced four films, two live-action TV series, and multiple novels.
Stahelski, 56, jumped on board the Highland remake in 2016.
Speaking about the upcoming film in 2023, the filmmaker told the Happy Sad Confused podcast: “I think we have some very good elements now. The trick is when you have the tagline, ‘There can only be one’, you just can’t kill everybody the first time.
“I’ll say it for you first, our story engages a lot of the same characters and stuff like that, but we’ve also brought in elements of all the TV shows, and we’re trying to do a bit of a prequel, a set-up to The Gathering [a 1992 episode of the series], so we have room to grow the property.”
Cavill became attached to the project in 2021, and Stahelski – who notably created the John…
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