First Highlander Footage

The Highlander reboot movie was yet revealed down closed doors astatine CinemaCon 2026, with footage showing Henry Cavill facing disconnected against Dave Bautista’s Kurgan — and yes, determination tin beryllium lone 1 winner.

The presumption began with a connection from Cavill from the set, wherever he’s inactive filming. Cavill, let’s remember, had to intermission filming owed to a limb wounded helium sustained past twelvemonth portion grooming for the movie, which delayed accumulation to aboriginal 2026.

The footage itself, acceptable to Queen’s ‘We Will Rock You,’ saw The Kurgan archer Cavill' Connor MacLeod: “When my sword changes history, you volition person a beforehand enactment seat.”

There was plentifulness of colorful action, with Cavill swordfighting successful scenes that evoke the code of the John Wick movies. That makes a batch of sense, since Highlander is helmed by John Wick manager Chad Stahelski. Indeed, Highlander has been described arsenic John Wick with swords.

As had been teased, this Highlander reboot is acceptable successful beyond present-day New York and Hong Kong, with Cavill playing an immortal sword maestro who’s been live for implicit 500 years, grooming successful each sorts of martial arts on the way. The CinemaCon footage confirmed Cavill’s character, Connor MacLeod, was calved successful 1518, and is forced into conflict astatine The Gathering. In Highlander lore, The Gathering is simply a summoning that forces the immortal warriors to look each different successful what's called the Game, leaving conscionable 1 alive.

In January, Cavill posted a archetypal look astatine his quality successful the Highlander reboot. The erstwhile Superman histrion took to Instagram to uncover 2 images, below, of himself successful character. As you’d expect from a Highlander movie, Cavill carries a sword. It looks similar he’s successful Hong Kong successful the archetypal photo, and New York successful the second.

For more, cheque retired everything announced and revealed astatine the Amazon MGM Studios presumption astatine CinemaCon 2026.

Image credit: Henry Cavill / Instagram.

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