The upcoming Highlander movie will be a family affair, as wrestler Drew McIntyre has joined the film as Henry Cavill’s brother.

Per Deadline, the two-time WWE champion will play Angus MacLeod, brother to Cavill’s Connor. In the original movie, Angus was played by James Cosmo; he’s one of Connor’s cousins featured in flashbacks to the 16th-century Scottish Highlands. After Connor died and experienced his first Quickening, Angus was the only one who didn’t reject him outright and ordered their clan to banish his cousin rather than burn him at the stake.

Highlander is McIntyre’s second acting project following The Killer’s Game from February and reunites him with that film’s lead, Dave Bautista. In Highlander, the pair are joined alongside Cavill by the previously cast Russell Crowe, Karen Gillan, Djimon Hounsou, Marisa Abela, and Max Zhang. Director Chad Stahelski previously stated this reboot would bring with it some new additions to the series’ mythology, including some new Immortals.

Pre-production on Highlander was delayed after Cavill’s recent training injury. Production is now set to begin in early 2026. We’ll have more news on the Highlander reboot as it emerges, which will clearly take some time while Cavill heals up.

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The upcoming Highlander movie continues to build out its cast: after recently nabbing Karen Gillan and Dave Bautista of Guardians of the Galaxy fame, we’ve got another Marvel alum in Djimon Hounsou.

Per the Hollywood Reporter, Hounsou will play an immortal African warrior and presumably cross paths with either Henry Cavill’s Connor MacLeod or Bautista’s villainous Kurgen. We really don’t know much about this movie, save for director Chad Stahelski’s aim to expand upon the mythology from the previous films, which, great, whatever. That’s all well and good; I just don’t want this to be yet another movie that doesn’t entirely know what to do with Hounsou.

There are a lot of Hollywood actors the industry doesn’t entirely know what to do with, and Hounsou’s arguably somewhere high on the list. The two-time Oscar nominee has had several thankless roles over the past decade—here’s looking at you, A Quiet Place Part II—and even movies that try to give him more to work with, like the second Rebel Moon, miss the mark just because they’ve got so much going on. The good news is Hounsou’s pretty busy the next few years: beyond Highlander, which is due in 2026, he’s also starring in next year’s survival thriller Shiver and the upcoming The Monster and The Zealot. Hopefully at least one of those starts some kind of Hounsou comeback.

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