Announced for many years, the reboot of the Highlander saga has become more and more concrete in recent months. Chad Stahelski, director of the John Wick franchise, gave good news of the project, something to delight fans of Immortals.
“There Can Only Be One” and it will surely be Henry Cavill! For more than two years, the former Superman has been announced as the future star of the Highlander reboot. Chad Stahelski, director of the John Wick saga and action virtuoso, took the reins of this ambitious project.
Last March, the director mentioned his intention to start a whole universe around the Immortals, as he was able to do with John Wick.
Stahelski also confirmed that he was developing the project with the involvement of Henry Cavill. “I’ve been working on Highlander for years now, for Henry Cavill. It’s much more difficult to work on a project like that than John Wick; the latter had no mythology behind it, 5 films and 6 seasons of a TV show”had confided the filmmaker.
On August 29, the director was a guest on the podcast Happy Sad Confused, hosted by Josh Horowitz. On this occasion, he again spoke about the progress of the project, giving some details about his intentions regarding the plot.
“I think we have good elements now. The thing is, you have a slogan which is ‘there can only be one’, you can’t kill everyone the first time. I’m going to tell you. confide something; our story takes many characters from the original and lots of details of this world. We also included elements of the different television series “he said.
“We’re trying to build a kind of prequel that would tell how the Immortals came to the Meeting [The Gathering]”. It is a kind of subconscious force that incites these chosen ones to face each other in a duel to the death, where the winner decapitates his adversary and appropriates all his power.
We’re trying to build a kind of prequel that would tell how the Immortals arrived at the Meeting.
“We have enough elements to develop this universe and extend the license”, concluded Chad Stahelski. If we now know some elements on the direction taken by the filmmaker for this new version of the immortal saga, we do not yet know if the reboot will turn before or after John Wick 5 and Ghost of Tsushima, other projects in the purse by Stahelsky. On Tsushima, there is question of rather dantesque katana fights, a good training for the Highlander project?
In addition, it is also not known if the director will bring back the former stars of the franchise, Christophe Lambert (Connor McLeod) and Adrian Paul (Duncan McLeod). Be that as it may, the strike that is paralyzing Hollywood at the moment gives Chad Stahelski time to quietly develop the project, concerned about respecting the original work.
“Mythology [imaginée par Gregory Widen] is so important that working on it is very delicate. You have to take the time to build the story, especially through flashbacks, in order to explore the full potential of mythology.”he said last March.
“I was told: everything you did on John Wick with the gun fights, we want you to try to do the same thing on Highlander with the sword fights. We want you to do something cool and unique, something that will make the audience say they’ve never seen it before”has always hammered Chad Stahelski.
The artist is therefore still very enthusiastic about the idea of resuscitating the saga of the immortals. With this action specialist at the helm and Henry Cavill as a hero, Highlander could rise from the ashes and find success again.