Henry Cavill Reportedly Injured While Training For 'Highlander' Delaying Film's Production Start Date

Henry Cavill was reportedly injured while training for his upcoming role in Chad Stahelski’s Highlander reboot film, and it has resulted in delaying the film’s production start date.

It’s unclear exactly what kind of injury Cavill suffered, but Deadline reports its serious enough to push the film’s production to the beginning of 2026. The film was originally supposed to go into production this upcoming October.

Cavill had seemingly been getting ready for the role by growing out his hair as can be seen in Instagram posts from May.

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Back in April the film found a new home at Amazon’s United Artists studio after previously being at Lionsgate.

The Highlander reboot or reimagining has been in the works for a number of years going as far back as 2017 where Stahleski informed Collider he wanted to make both films and TV shows with the series.

He said, “We’re currently doing a bit of work on the overall plot structure. When I came on board, they were trying to reinvent the single Highlander property. We’ve gone since back in and we would like to really expand the world, so we consider the same shortcomings don’t happen again that happened on the original project, meaning you have one great movie and four questionable followups.”

“We want to develop a property that can give us — and again it’s not about marketing, it’s not so much about the financials, it’s about how can we make a more mythological, chapter one, chapter two, what’s a great way to tell this story,” he said.

Cavill boarded the project in 2021 and spoke about his role and character on the Happy, Sad, Confused podcast back in February 2024. He said, “Obviously, I’ve watched them when I was a lot younger and since rewatched, but also the TV show. I really enjoyed the lore behind it. That sort of sense of a tragic warrior with more of a story to tell rather than just a cool guy with a sword doing cool things. And this goes even deeper into that.”

Stahelski provided more details about Cavill’s character as well as the plot of the film.

He told The Direct back in November, “We're 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's big opportunity for action,” he continued. “There's a chance to play a character that not a lot of people get to play. And it's a bit of a love story, but not how you think.”

As for Cavill’s character he revealed, “My selling point was, to [Henry Cavill], look, you've got a guy that's been alive for over 500 years. He's the last person in the world that wanted to be in this situation. So you get to cover quite a broad spread of a character arc there.”

Stahelski added, “And you get to experience someone that's trained over 500 years and sort of played [with many types of] martial arts..."

Alongside Cavill the film will star Dave Bautista, who is rumored to play the Kurgan as well as John Cena, Karen Gillan as Heather, and Marisa Abela.

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