Highlander Movie Faces Major Setback After Henry Cavill Suffers Training Injury

Well, the Highlander remake just hit another speed bump. The movie was expected to start rolling cameras later this month, but Henry Cavill got hurt while training, and production is now off the calendar until early 2026. Not the kind of immortality anyone was hoping for.

Details on Cavill's injury are being kept quiet, but the delay is significant. Once they do get going again, the plan is to shoot in Scotland, England, and Hong Kong.

For anyone keeping track of this long-gestating reboot, here is where things stand:

• Henry Cavill is playing Connor MacLeod, the Scottish Highlander who learns he is immortal and ends up fighting other immortals across time.
• Russell Crowe is Ramirez, the seasoned swordsman who mentors MacLeod.
• Dave Bautista is the Kurgan, the big bad.
• Karen Gillan is set as MacLeod's Scottish wife.
• Marisa Abela plays his modern-day love interest.
• Djimon Hounsou recently joined as an immortal warrior from Africa.

Director Chad Stahelski is moving the timeline around in a way that sounds ambitious and very John Wick-brained, which tracks given his day job. He has also been pretty open about the scope:

'We are bringing it forward from the early 1500s in the highlands to the beyond present-day New York and Hong Kong, and seeing how it goes. There is big opportunity for action. There is a chance to play a character that not a lot of people get to play. And it is a bit of a love story, but not how you think. On John Wick, I learned a lot on how to bend the storytelling a little... another kind of myth.'

On the writing side, Michael Finch is reportedly building a larger, more layered world with a broader slate of immortals from different corners of the globe. That is very much by design: this thing is being built with franchise ambitions in mind, so they want plenty of room to expand.

Some inside baseball: the project started life at Lionsgate, then moved earlier this year to Amazon MGM Studios' United Artists. As part of that deal, United Artists now holds full rights to the franchise. Producing are Scott Stuber and Nick Nesbitt, alongside Neal H. Moritz, 87Eleven Entertainment, Josh Davis of Davis-Panzer Productions, and Louise Rosner.

Bottom line: Cavill's training injury pushes Highlander to at least early 2026 for a start date. Frustrating, sure, but if they stick the landing on the worldbuilding and Stahelski's time-hopping scope, the extra wait might be worth it. In the meantime, best wishes to Cavill on a quick recovery.