{"id":2053269,"date":"2025-09-27T01:59:36","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T01:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2053269"},"modified":"2025-09-27T01:59:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T01:59:36","slug":"drew-mcintyre-joins-highlander-reboot-his-second-movie-with-dave-bautista","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/drew-mcintyre-joins-highlander-reboot-his-second-movie-with-dave-bautista\/","title":{"rendered":"Drew McIntyre joins Highlander reboot, his second movie with Dave Bautista"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This seems almost like typecasting, but WWE\u2019s Drew McIntyre is the latest name attached to the upcoming Highlander reboot from John Wick director\/producer Chad Stahlenski.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">His remake of the 1986 action-fantasy classic will star Henry Cavill in the title role as the (mostly) immortal Connor MacLeod, and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cagesideseats.com\/wwe\/2023\/6\/29\/23778571\/batista-confirms-supposed-to-be-inducted-wwe-hall-of-fame-2023-wrestlemania-39-dave-bautista\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:WWE Hall of Famer;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">WWE Hall of Famer<\/a>-in-waiting <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cagesideseats.com\/wwe\/383794\/dave-bautista-on-john-cena-getting-dc-universe-role-written-for-him-james-gunn-peacemaker-hbo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Dave Bautista;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Dave Bautista<\/a> as his nemesis, The Kurgan. The original movie spawned several sequels and a long-running syndicated television series, and the new version had been <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cagesideseats.com\/2015\/2\/13\/8032489\/rumor-roundup-feb-13-2015-john-cena-character-undertaker-health-chael-sonnen-wwe-meeting\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:kicked around Hollywood;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">kicked around Hollywood<\/a> for almost 20 years before finally starting to pick up speed this year when Russell Crowe was cast in the Ramirez role made famous by Sean Connery, and Bautista as a fellow immortal and the film\u2019s villain. The start of production has been delayed by an injury Cavill suffered in training, but is expected to happen in early 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">When that happens, McIntyre will play Angus MacLeod. If you weren\u2019t a young nerd in the 80s like yours truly, or just generally aren\u2019t familiar with the OG Highlander, Angus was a cousin of Connor\u2019s who played a small but key role in the film\u2019s flashback scenes to the 16th century Scottish Highlands. Deadline brought news of Drew\u2019s casting, and says that Angus is Connor\u2019s brother in the reboot script written by Michael Finch, so it\u2019s possible the part is beefed up in the new version.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">No matter how much screen time and dialogue he ends up with, this is likely to be the highest profile acting job for the former WWE champ to date. It re-teams him with Bautista and Stahlenski\u2019s 87Eleven Entertainment stunt team, who were also part of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cagesideseats.com\/wwe\/2024\/6\/5\/24172266\/batista-meets-drew-mcintyre-action-movie-killers-game-lionsgate\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:his debut film, The Killer\u2019s Game;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">his debut film, The Killer\u2019s Game<\/a>. Big Dave revealed<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=017JuHsSN6E\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:to Chris Van Vliet;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> to Chris Van Vliet<\/a> last year that he turned that film\u2019s director, JJ Perry, on to Big Drew:<\/p>\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cI was having a conversation with [director JJ Perry] and he said \u2018I need a great big guy who\u2019s almost intimidating to you, a guy who\u2019d be bigger than you, and I also need him to be able to pull off a Scottish accent. Do you know anybody?\u2019 I was like \u2018Man, I\u2019ve got the perfect guy.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">And McIntyre <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/NlSfKeIF6lk?si=nLQx2mmYLK74dk8O\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:told the Nerd Reactor podcast;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">told the Nerd Reactor podcast<\/a> that Baustita mentored him on The Killer\u2019s Game set just as he once had in WWE:<\/p>\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cI was just picked up from Scotland in college and dropped down and he was there, you know, as a friend and mentor and it\u2019s interesting to fast-forward so many years. The success he\u2019s had in the entertainment world in Hollywood and now, he\u2019s doing the exact same. He\u2019s helping guide me along. Mentoring me once again and the experience on the movie, it was just, yeah, unreal. It\u2019s crazy what WWE prepares you for. It really prepares you for it feels like anything in life. But specifically, this world, I was so nervous. Dave calmed my nerves and that red light went on. I just relaxed again.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">We were already excited for the Highlander reboot (and not entirely because we want to see if they recreate the original\u2019s Madison Square Garden pro wrestling scene, and who gets the fleeting cameo spots Greg Gagne, Jim Brunzell, Sam Fatu, Michael Hayes, Terry Gordy, and Buddy Roberts got). The McIntyre\/Batista connection just makes us even more excited.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">You?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This seems almost like typecasting, but WWE\u2019s Drew McIntyre is the latest name attached to the upcoming Highlander reboot from John Wick director\/producer Chad Stahlenski. His remake of the 1986 action-fantasy classic will star Henry Cavill in the title role as the (mostly) immortal Connor MacLeod, and WWE Hall of Famer-in-waiting Dave Bautista as his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2053270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[381591,339673,307230,369094,29468,339676,320000],"class_list":["post-2053269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-chad-stahlenski","tag-connor-macleod","tag-dave-bautista","tag-drew-mcintyre","tag-henry-cavill","tag-russell-crowe","tag-sean-connery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Drew-McIntyre-joins-Highlander-reboot-his-second-movie-with-Dave.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2053269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2053270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2053269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2053269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2053269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}