{"id":31044,"date":"2025-08-08T21:50:53","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T01:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=31044"},"modified":"2025-08-10T00:02:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T04:02:38","slug":"dave-bautista-in-talks-to-star-in-amazons-remake-of-highlander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=31044","title":{"rendered":"Dave Bautista in Talks to Star in Amazon&#8217;s Remake of  &#8216;Highlander&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"p1\">\u00a9Courtesy of &#8220;Heist&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1176985\/\">Dave Bautista<\/a> is reportedly in final talks with Amazon MGM United Artists to play the villain known as The Kurgen in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1235529\/\"><em><strong>Highlander<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, a remake of the cult classic that thrilled audiences in the 1980s. Also appearing in the upcoming film will be <a href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?s=henry+cavill\">Henry Cavill<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?s=Russell+Crowe\">Russell Crowe,<\/a>with Cavill playing the role of MacLeod and Crowe assuming the character of Ramirez. The villainous Kurgen was played by Clancy Brown in the original movie. \u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>The remake, to be directed by<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0821432\/\"> Chad Stahelski,<\/a> will begin shooting in September at locales in the UK and Hong Kong. The script for the remake has been written by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm3360218\/\">Michael Finch<\/a>. It\u2019s being produced by Scott Stuber and Nick Nesbitt along with Neal H. Moritz, Stahelski\u2019s 87Eleven Entertainment, Josh Davis of Davis Panzer Productions, and Louise Rosner. <br \/><br \/>Bautista has also appeared in other Amazon productions, including action comedies like <em><strong>My Spy<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>The Wrecking Crew<\/strong><\/em>. He\u2019s also talking with Amazon about a starring role in its sequel to <em><strong>The Roadhouse<\/strong><\/em>. The actor is represented by WME, Meisner Entertainment Group and Jackoway Austen.<br \/><br \/>Originally released in 1986, <em><strong>Highlander<\/strong> <\/em>starred Christopher Lambert as Connor MacLeod, a Scottish Highlander and immortal warrior who battled similar warriors across the centuries with the assistance of Ramirez, a swordsman played by Sean Connery. It was not a commercial success, grossing only $13 million on a $19 million budget, and it received mixed reviews but it quickly became a cult classic.<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0927074\/\">Gregory Widen<\/a> wrote the original script for the 1986 film. He was quoted as saying: &#8220;The idea of the story was basically a combination of a riff on The Duelists&#8211;guy wants to finish a duel over years\u2014and a visit I made both to Scotland and the Tower of London armour display, where I thought, &#8216;What if you owned all this? What if you&#8217;d worn it all through history and were giving someone a tour of your life through it?&#8217; That scene is basically in the movie.&#8221;<\/p>\r\n<p>This is not the first time a remake of Highlander has been proposed. In 2015, Cedric Nicolas-Troyan\u00a0tried to create one for Summit Entertainment. \u00a0<br \/><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/author\/edward-moran\/\">Click here for other articles by Edward.<\/a><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a9Courtesy of &#8220;Heist&#8221;\u00a0 Dave Bautista is reportedly in final talks with Amazon MGM United Artists to play the villain known as The Kurgen in Highlander, a remake of the cult classic that thrilled audiences in the 1980s. Also appearing in the upcoming film will be Henry Cavill and Russell Crowe,with Cavill playing the role of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":31065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[20352,299,1337,1332,1330,14896,2727,28051],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Dave Bautista in Talks to Star in Amazon&#039;s Remake of &#039;Highlander&#039; | Cinema Daily US<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Dave Bautista is reportedly in final talks with Amazon MGM United Artists to play the villain known as The Kurgen in Highlander, a remake of the cult classic that thrilled audiences in the 1980s.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=31044\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dave Bautista in Talks to Star in Amazon&#039;s Remake of &#039;Highlander&#039; 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