{"id":270652,"date":"2026-01-29T19:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T19:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/270652\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T19:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T19:45:08","slug":"henry-cavill-flaunts-his-first-look-for-chad-stahelskis-highlander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/270652\/","title":{"rendered":"Henry Cavill Flaunts His First Look for Chad Stahelski&#8217;s Highlander"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">If, sometime back, anyone ever wondered where Henry Cavill\u2019s Highlander was at, there was never a concrete answer \u2013 Chad Stahelski\u2019s ambitious project has long been in development, marred by constant delays. But now, we have proof that Cavill\u2019s Highlander is really a thing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Recently, Man of Steel star Cavill took to Instagram to share his first look as the sword-wielding immortal Scottish warrior Connor MacLeod.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"480\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2b596bc72f6211db613e3cfbbc8886fc.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cHappy First Look for\u00a0Highlander! This has been quite the journey for me, which I&#8217;ll tell you all about when the time is right, but it&#8217;s a special moment to be able to share this. I hope you enjoy,\u201d wrote Cavill, attaching the shots of his look.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Indeed, it had been a journey for Cavill. The actor sustained an injury during training for the project, pushing production to 2026, which was originally slated for last fall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Apart from Cavill, the cast includes the likes of Russell Crowe, Jeremy Irons, Marisa Abela, Karen Gillan, Djimon Hounsou, Dave Bautista, and Max Zhang.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Written by Michael Finch and directed by Chad Stahelski, the film was eyeing a 2027 or 2028 release window, though there\u2019s no official confirmation from Amazon yet. <\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/movies\/articles\/henry-cavill-confirms-highlander-delay-201450583.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Related: Henry Cavill Confirms Highlander Delay in Instagram Post;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Related: Henry Cavill Confirms Highlander Delay in Instagram Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If, sometime back, anyone ever wondered where Henry Cavill\u2019s Highlander was at, there was never a concrete answer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,132595,132596,93,57179,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-270652","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-chad-stahelski","10":"tag-concrete-answer","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-henry-cavill","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}