Although it’s been three years since the film was announced, Henry Cavill is still closely involved with Chad Stahelski’s Highlander reboot.
“I can’t answer that question yet,” Henry Cavill told ComicBook.com when asked what audiences can expect. “I still have a lot of work to do. It will be a big challenge.”
In an interview with Collider, the actor said: “Now the serious training will begin. It will be a very long training process, and I want to dive into it. There is not much I can tell you at the moment. I want to keep everything a secret for as long as possible.”
Cavill was first announced to play Connor MacLeod, the last immortal Highlander, in a reboot of the film franchise back in 2021.
The Highlander franchise began with the 1986 film starring Sean Connery, Clancy Brown, Roxanne Hart, and Christopher Lambert, about an ancient war between immortals. The success of the first film led to many films, TV shows, books, video games, comics, and more merchandise than we can even imagine.
“We want to make our own story, and it involves a lot of the same characters and things like that,” Stahelski said last year on the Happy Sad Confused podcast. “But we also brought elements from all the shows. We spend our days having ideas on how to make the coolest characters and turn them into an epic TV show. I just think it’s a rich, rich mythology.”
The new film takes place in modern-day New York and is scheduled for 2026.