{"id":650871,"date":"2026-05-06T05:13:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T05:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/650871\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T05:13:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T05:13:12","slug":"new-set-photos-of-highlander-castle-filming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/650871\/","title":{"rendered":"New Set Photos Of &#8220;Highlander&#8221; Castle Filming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/set-video-cavill-bautista-film-highlander.jpg\" data-caption=\"Amazon MGM Studios\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/set-video-cavill-bautista-film-highlander.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"set-video-cavill-bautista-film-highlander\"\/><\/a>Amazon MGM Studios<\/p>\n<p>Filming is underway at Scotland\u2019s Eilean Donan Castle on the \u201cHighlander\u201d reboot with actors Henry Cavill, Karen Gillan, Kevin McKidd and WWE superstar Drew McIntyre all spotted on set.<\/p>\n<p>New set photos of some of the major filming that has been going on have been posted by the BBC and can be seen below.<\/p>\n<p>Cavill is playing Connor MacLeod, a Medieval Scottish Highlander who discovers he is an immortal warrior. With the help of a swordsman named Ramirez (Russell Crowe), the Highlander battles other immortals across the centuries.<\/p>\n<p>When the ruthless immortal Kurgan (Dave Bautista) resurfaces, backed by a secret organisation bent on unlocking the secret of eternal life, Connor is forced back into the Game \u2013 an ancient battle where \u2018there can be only one\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoctor Who\u201d and \u201cGuardians of the Galaxy\u201d star Gillan takes on the role of the immortal\u2019s first wife, Heather MacLeod.  McIntyre is expected to play Connor\u2019s brother Angus.<\/p>\n<p>Chad Stahelski directs the film, which also stars Marisa Abela, Max Zhang, and Djimon Hounsou.  It\u2019s expected to hit cinemas in 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amazon MGM Studios Filming is underway at Scotland\u2019s Eilean Donan Castle on the \u201cHighlander\u201d reboot with actors Henry&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":650872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[112110,49,48,75,337],"class_list":["post-650871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-bigslider","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/650872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}