John Wick director Chad Stahelski has been engaged on a reboot of the fantasy motion movie Highlander for years, and Henry Cavill is ready to star in it. Stahelski has talked concerning the movie describing it as being John Wick with swords, which sounds badass.
Cavill lately teased the movie saying that it’s going to be “a severe experience.” 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 mission, he briefly shared with CB:
“I am not going to reply that simply but. There’s loads of work to be finished but on my half. It is going to be a severe experience, I am going to inform you that a lot.”
Whereas Cavill isn’t saying a lot, the director beforehand talked about Highlander saying will embody each acquainted characters and “parts” taken from the ‘90s TV collection: “We’re trying to do our story [and it] engages loads of the identical characters and stuff like that. However we’ve additionally introduced in parts of all of the TV reveals. We’re making an attempt to do a little bit of a prequel setup to The Gathering.”
The Gathering refers back to the fruits of the near-eternal battle amongst immortals. He went on to elucidate they’re setting this entire factor as much as increase and develop the story: “So, we now have room to develop the property. We’ve concepts for days about how one can make the good characters and to make that an epic TV present. I simply suppose that’s a wealthy, wealthy mythology.”
The unique 1986 Highlander film starred Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery and Clancy Brown as immortal beings, who’re searching down each other and amassing extra energy. The traditional tagline for the movie was: “There could be just one.”
Stahelski additionally mentioned the reboot was being developed as a trilogy. He defined that they’re taking the most effective story parts from throughout the franchise and implementing all of it into one story that can be unfold out throughout a trilogy of movies:
“I believe the TV collection hit on loads of nice stuff wasn’t within the function, between the watchers and all of the various kinds of immortals. How can we get this right into a function mode earlier than we dribble it into the TV world? Effectively, let’s restructure it in components, 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. The right way 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 mission? That’s what we’re restructuring proper now. It’s taking all the good things that we had earlier than I used to be concerned within the mission from the script; redeveloping the script to present us actually good chapters one, two and three; and increasing the world.”
He additionally talked about his imaginative and prescient for the movie, 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 near Star Wars. The primary one is a really satisfying ending however it does go away the door open and that’s sort of how I see this. I would like to increase it over three. I see The Gathering occurring over three. It’s tough, don’t get me mistaken, that’s why we’re nonetheless growing it. We would like to have the ability to inform three full tales that every one sort of match. I believe the Star Wars trilogy, a minimum of as much as The Empire Strikes Again, is an efficient instance of how we need to course of it.”
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