{"id":941301,"date":"2026-05-06T10:08:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T10:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/941301\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T10:08:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T10:08:23","slug":"new-set-photos-of-highlander-castle-filming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/941301\/","title":{"rendered":"New Set Photos Of &#8220;Highlander&#8221; Castle Filming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/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.europesays.com\/uk\/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<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DX6p9lqgp42\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>        <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/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":941302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[171891,77,3943,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-941301","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-bigslider","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116527085094462622","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=941301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/941302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=941301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=941301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=941301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}