John Wick 4 Director Says Henry Cavill’s Highlander Reboot Movie Will Fail: “Being retroactive is hard”

With Chad Stahelski ready to move past the John Wick franchise after the fourth movie, the director has finally shared his views regarding the future of the Henry Cavill-led Highlander reboot. Even though the director has previously tried to get a grasp on several other projects, including the Highlander reboot alongside John Wick, he wasn’t able to succeed in the process.

But even though he is ready to work on several other projects, the director isn’t fully sure about a modern-day Highlander movie and believes that the Henry Cavill movie wouldn’t succeed on the big screen.

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Chad Stahelski isn’t confident about Henry Cavill’s Highlander reboot being a movie

While speaking with Deadline, Chad Stahelski expressed that he isn’t confident about the Highlander movie, a reboot of 1986’s Highlander, which reportedly involves Henry Cavill at its forefront. Even though the director has been working for years to get this project running alongside working on John Wick, he believes that a 2-hour movie wouldn’t be able to do justice to its mythology. He said,

“I’ve worked on Highlander for years now, for Henry Cavill. Being retroactive is hard. What’s different between Wick and that? With Wick, you weren’t serving seven seasons of TV plus two spinoffs plus five films. If I were to do a remake of Highlander right now, you’d expect a lot of mythology in those first two hours, you couldn’t explore stuff without it”

However, the director hasn’t brushed off the idea of the reboot and revealed that a modern-day adaptation of Highlander is allegedly closer to happening than it has ever been in the last few years.

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Chad Stahelski believes that the Highlander reboot can work as a TV show

Even though he isn’t sure if a Highlander movie would work, Chad Stahelski has expressed that they’re looking into the idea of branching its story into a TV show. The John Wick director clarified that even though they wouldn’t be able to do justice to the story in a feature-length film, a TV show would allow them to take their time and deliver the story to its full potential without any sacrifices. He said,

“Now, Highlander as a TV show now would be amazing. You’d have time to build it out, see all those flashbacks and the potential of it. It’s trickier when you’re trying to do something with that big of a mythology”

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But the Henry Cavill-led Highlander reboot isn’t the only project that Stahelski is currently working on. As the director is also reportedly working to bring the brilliant PlayStation game, Ghost of Tsushima into the medium of live-action.

Source: Deadline