Henry Cavill suffers injury while training for Highlander film

Actor Henry Cavill has suffered an wounded during grooming up of filming for the remake of the Highlander film.

The British actor, champion known for TV bid The Witcher, playing Superman successful Man Of Steel, and much precocious Sherlock Holmes successful the Enola Holmes movie series, was wounded conscionable days earlier the movie was owed to commencement production.

Filming for the reboot of the 1980s classical volition present statesman successful 2026, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The formed includes Gladiator histrion Russell Crowe, who worked with Cavill connected Man Of Steel, arsenic good arsenic erstwhile Doctor Who prima Karen Gillan, and Dave Bautista - known for roles successful Dune and arsenic Drax successful the Guardians Of The Galaxy trilogy.

Cavill, 42, was injured during pre-production of the Amazon MGM Studios' United Artists (UA) film.

Highlander, which is being directed by Chad Stahelski, is based connected the archetypal 1986 movie of the aforesaid name.

The movie starred Christopher Lambert and Sean Connery and is astir an past conflict betwixt immortal warriors.

The fantasy-action movie was followed up with respective sequels, including Highlander II: The Quickening (1991), Highlander III: The Sorcerer (1994), and Highlander: Endgame (2000).

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An alternate sequel to the archetypal movie was besides produced arsenic a TV spin-off bid successful 1992.

Speaking astatine CinemaCon successful Las Vegas successful April, Cavill told The Hollywood Reporter helium was a "lover of the archetypal movies, for amended oregon worse" and was presently successful grooming to play the immortal Scottish hero.

He added: "If you deliberation you've seen maine bash sword enactment before, you haven't seen thing yet."

There has been nary connection connected what benignant of wounded Cavill suffered oregon however it occurred.