Please, ‘Highlander’ Reboot, Do not Waste Djimon Hounsou

The upcoming Highlander movie continues to construct out its solid: after just lately nabbing Karen Gillan and Dave Bautista of Guardians of the Galaxy fame, we’ve received one other Marvel alum in Djimon Hounsou.

Per the Hollywood Reporter, Hounsou will play an immortal African warrior and presumably cross paths with both Henry Cavill’s Connor MacLeod or Bautista’s villainous Kurgen. We actually don’t know a lot about this film, save for director Chad Stahelski’s purpose to expand upon the mythology from the earlier movies, which, nice, no matter. That’s all effectively and good; I simply don’t need this to be yet one more film that doesn’t fully know what to do with Hounsou.

There are a number of Hollywood actors the trade doesn’t fully know what to do with, and Hounsou’s arguably someplace excessive on the listing. The 2-time Oscar nominee has had a number of thankless roles over the previous decade—right here’s you, A Quiet Place Half II—and even films that attempt to give him extra to work with, just like the second Rebel Moon, miss the mark simply because they’ve received a lot happening. The excellent news is Hounsou’s fairly busy the following few years: past Highlander, which is due in 2026, he’s additionally starring in subsequent 12 months’s survival thriller Shiver and the upcoming The Monster and The Zealot. Hopefully at the very least a kind of begins some sort of Hounsou comeback.

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