While fans have been getting excited by the imminent filming of the Highlander reboot, there’s also been the underlying cynicism that the film has had a troubled journey from idea to potentially-fully-in-production project and might yet hit more turbulence… and so there might have been a reluctant sigh with the news that there’s been yet another delay.
With a majority of the main cast in place, it seemed unlikely there’s be any serious obstacles… but, unfortunately, there’s only so much you can do when your main character suffers an injury. Though it’s not life-threatening – and probably considered nothing more than an annoying scrape for an Immortal – it’s been revealed that Henry Cavill suffered a significant leg injury during training. It will mean that filming will not now start before the beginning of 2026.
Cavill, posting the above pictures on Instagram while recuperating, also jokingly posted lines from Invictus, an epic poem by William Ernest Henry, written in the aftermath of a leg amputation…
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.
