Scottish WWE Superstar Drew McIntyre Set to Play Angus MacLeod, Henry Cavill's Brother, in Highlander Reboot

WWE prima Drew McIntyre volition reportedly play Henry Cavill’s member successful the Highlander reboot.

Deadline reported that the 40-year-old nonrecreational wrestler, who hails from Ayrshire, Scotland, volition play Angus MacLeod, member to Cavill’s MacLeod. He joins Russell Crowe, Karen Gillan, Djimon Hounsou, Dave Bautista, Marisa Abela, and Max Zhang successful the reboot, which is directed by John Wick’s Chad Stahelski.

McIntyre made his acting debut successful 2024 container bureau weaponry The Killer's Game, alongside chap WWE champion Bautista.

WWE prima Drew McIntyre volition reportedly play Henry Cavill’s member successful the Highlander reboot. Photo by Michael Marques/WWE via Getty Images.

In November past year, Stahelski revealed the movie is acceptable successful beyond present-day New York and Hong Kong, with Cavill acceptable to play a sword maestro who’s been live for implicit 500 years, grooming successful each sorts of martial arts on the way.

The Highlander films and TV bid revolve astir an age-old warfare betwixt immortal warriors who tin lone beryllium killed via beheading. The cult classical 1986 debut movie starred Christopher Lambert arsenic Connor MacLeod, who is trained by Sean Connery’s Ramírez. It fuses past and present-day storylines, switching from 16th period Scottish Highlands to 80s New York.

In the archetypal Highlander, James Cosmo played Angus MacLeod, Connor MacLeod's cousin, not his brother. (We’re inactive not definite precisely which MacLeod Cavill volition play successful the movie.)

Stahelski offered a vague communicative setup: "... And we're bringing it guardant from the aboriginal 1500s successful the highlands to the beyond present-day New York and Hong Kong, and seeing however it goes. There's large accidental for action. There's a accidental to play a quality that not a batch of radical get to play. And it's a spot of a emotion story, but not however you think. On John Wick, I learned a batch connected however to crook the storytelling a little... different benignant of myth."

And connected Cavill’s character: "My selling constituent was, to [Henry Cavill], look, you've got a feline that's been live for implicit 500 years. He's the past idiosyncratic successful the satellite that wanted to beryllium successful this situation. So you get to screen rather a wide dispersed of a quality arc there. And you get to acquisition idiosyncratic that's trained implicit 500 years and benignant of played [with galore types of] martial arts..."

In August past year, Stahelski suggested the Highlander reboot could beryllium the commencement of thing big. “I deliberation we person immoderate precise bully elements now,” helium said. “The instrumentality is erstwhile you person the tagline ‘there tin lone beryllium one,' you can’t conscionable termination everybody the archetypal time.”

He continued: “Our communicative engages a batch of the aforesaid characters and worldly similar that,” Stahelski continued. “But we’ve besides brought successful elements of each the TV shows, and we’re trying to bash a spot of a prequel, a setup to The Gathering, truthful we person country to turn the property.”

In Highlander, The Gathering is simply a summoning that forces the immortal warriors to look each different successful what's called the Game.

“I've been a instrumentality of Highlander since I was a lad,” said Cavill connected Instagram erstwhile the movie was announced successful 2021. “From the movies successful each of their 80s, Queen slathered glory to the TV amusement with an histrion who looked remarkably similar 1 of my brothers. Being not shy with swords, and having a manager arsenic talented arsenic Chad Stahelski astatine the helm, this is an accidental similar nary other.”

In April 2024, Cavill bigged-up his grooming for the Highlander movie, promising adjacent much awesome sword skills than helium demonstrated successful Netflix’s The Witcher. "If you thought you’d seen maine bash swordwork before, you haven't seen thing yet," Cavill said.

But earlier this month, the erstwhile Superman histrion suffered a limb wounded portion grooming for Highlander, delaying accumulation of the movie to aboriginal 2026.

Photo by Michael Marques/WWE via Getty Images.

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