By Chris Snellgrove
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Followers are hoping that the upcoming Highlander reboot will convey this nearly-forgotten swords and sorcery franchise again to life. I share these hopes, however I’m additionally crossing my fingers {that a} profitable blockbuster movie can revitalize the profession of Henry Cavill. That’s as a result of this beloved actor has grow to be one thing of a paradox: he stays extremely popular, nevertheless it’s been a few years since his Hollywood profession was really related.
Cavill’s first actual breakout position was starring as Charles Brandon in The Tudors. However since this was a Showtime present in regards to the reign of King Henry VIII, its fandom was principally restricted to historical past nerds with a cable subscription. Everybody else fell in love with Cavill a number of years later when he starred in Man of Metal, enjoying Superman within the film that kickstarted the DCEU.
Henry Cavill’s Quickly Fading Relevancy
He continued enjoying this well-known superhero in varied different DCEU tasks whereas branching out, enjoying the lead in The Man From U.N.C.L.E. and the shock villain in Mission Inconceivable: Fallout. Henry Cavill additionally performed the lead position in The Witcher Netflix present earlier than ultimately leaving and getting changed by Liam Hemsworth. Quickly, the DCEU imploded; Cavill was not enjoying Superman, and his profession stalled out in a really noticeable approach.
Cavill’s final actually huge position was Zack Snyder’s Justice League in 2021, which itself was only a director’s lower of the sooner 2017 Justice League. He made transient (however memorable) appearances within the Enola Holmes movies as Sherlock Holmes, and he popped up for a enjoyable visible gag in Deadpool & Wolverine (“the Cavillrine!”). Sadly, his most up-to-date characteristic movie roles, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare and Argylle, have been each full and utter field workplace bombs.
Henry Cavill Is Banking On Highlander To Save Him
That’s why the Highlander reboot has grow to be so essential for Henry Cavill: its success would make the proficient actor really related once more. It went off the rails and has largely light from popular culture reminiscence, however the Highlander collection was as soon as fairly standard and nonetheless has legions of followers. If the reboot finally ends up being nice, it might assist to revitalize Cavill’s profession, similar to the preliminary success of The Man of Metal helped him land roles in different franchises like Mission: Inconceivable and The Witcher.
If the Highlander reboot flops, although, Cavill may grow to be additional irrelevant within the eyes of mainstream audiences. Actually, he’s nonetheless extremely popular, however you’re far likelier to see followers on-line praising him for his outwardly nerdy conduct (like his ardour for PC gaming and his proficiency at constructing his personal computer systems) than his performing. That’s as a result of it’s been a staggering seven years since Cavill had a starring position in a theatrical movie that truly made a revenue.
Can Warhammer 40,000 Save Henry Cavill?
The actor’s different huge gamble is Warhammer 40,000, because the actor will likely be starring in and govt producing a Prime Video collection primarily based on this well-known tabletop recreation from Video games Workshop. I’m an enormous fan of the 40k universe and actually hope Cavill’s Amazon gamble paid off, however it’s fairly a inventive danger. That’s as a result of any deviations will flip off hardcore followers from a long time of tortured franchise lore, and informal audiences could also be turned away by a present the place there are not any good guys and the closest issues to heroes (the Area Marines) are overtly fascist.
Henry Cavill is an actor who parlayed comparatively minor fame from his position in a historic TV present to a profession enjoying Superman, probably the most well-known superhero of all time. When he needed to hold up the cape, although, he seemingly hung up his skill to land starring roles in different profitable productions. We are able to solely hope the upcoming Highlander reboot succeeds and makes the actor related once more as a result of, at this fee, Cavill is simply one other field workplace bomb or two away from simply beginning a online game podcast and hawking dietary supplements to a small military of twitchy younger players.
