Throughout Wednesday’s Lionsgate presentation at CinemaCon, Henry Cavillgot here out to speak about his two Man Ritchie tasks, and he dropped slightly information with reference to director Chad Stahleski’s Highlander reboot. Out of all the info that was given to us right now, this was in all probability essentially the most intriguing.
The unique Highlander was launched in theaters in 1986 starring Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery and Clancy Brown. As a child I freaking beloved this film, it was motion packed and scary.
It left a lifelong impression and it’s one among my core film reminiscences. To listen to Henry Cavill communicate on the topic was actually inspiring. He made me really feel like he was as invested in making this franchise nice. Right here are some things that he stated on the presentation.
“I’m a lover of the unique motion pictures, for higher or for worse, and it’s a type of issues the place after I was studying the script for the primary time I wasn’t fairly too certain the place they have been going to go together with it.”
Ultimately, he determined to signal on when he realized that this was going to be a much bigger film than the unique, saying:
“However me oh my, we’re going a lot deeper into the characters.”
Then he capped off his need to deliver pleasure to the group by saying:
“If you happen to thought you’d seen me do sword work earlier than, you haven’t seen something but.”
I beloved Cavill as Geralt and I’m tremendous excited to see him as Connor MacLeod. I really feel like that is what this franchise wanted to return again with a vengeance. That is completely the time to return out with a variety sweeping collection of movies that provides the viewers, outdated and new followers, one thing to sink their tooth into.
Stahelski beforehand stated the reboot is like John Wick with swords, and revealed that it was being developed as a trilogy. He defined that they’re taking one of the best story components from throughout the franchise and implementing all of it into one story that will likely be unfold out throughout a trilogy of movies.
He stated: “I believe the TV collection hit on numerous nice stuff wasn’t within the characteristic, between the watchers and all of the various kinds of immortals. How will we get this right into a characteristic mode earlier than we dribble it into the TV world? Properly, let’s restructure it in elements, let’s take a look at it prefer it was a TV present, let’s take a look at it prefer it was a high-end trilogy.”
He continued: “How one can we inform the story of The Gathering, The Quickenings, The Immortals and the way do we actually construct this world out much more so than the unique challenge? That’s what we’re restructuring proper now. It’s taking all the good things that we had earlier than I used to be concerned within the challenge from the script; redeveloping the script to offer us actually good chapters one, two and three; and increasing the world.”
He additionally talked about his imaginative and prescient for the movie, saying: “The imaginative and prescient we’re attempting to get throughout and what we’re attempting to develop, I equate very near Star Wars. The primary one is a really satisfying ending however it does go away the door open and that’s form of how I see this. I would love to broaden it over three.”
He added: “I see The Gathering occurring over three. It’s difficult, don’t get me mistaken, that’s why we’re nonetheless creating it. We wish to have the ability to inform three full tales that each one form of match. I believe the Star Wars trilogy, no less than as much as The Empire Strikes Again, is an efficient instance of how we need to course of it.”
