henry cavill was filming the Highlander remake at Eilean Donan Castle in Scotland, riding a horse during a torchlight procession on the same grounds that once appeared in the 1986 film. Karen Gillan was there too, and the production pushed the remake back into a location that already carries franchise history.
Eilean Donan Castle Returns
The current shoot centers on the remake of the 1986 Highlander, the sci-fi fantasy that originally starred Christopher Lambert and Sir Sean Connery. Eilean Donan Castle was also a location in the original film, so the new production is leaning hard on a site that already reads as part of the property’s visual language.
Gillan’s presence adds a local layer to the production. She grew up in Inverness before Doctor Who propelled her to Hollywood, and Murdo MacKinnon said she helped him raise almost £10,000 for the Alzheimer's Society during her stay in Skye. For a Highland shoot, that kind of reach matters as much as the screen time.
Glen Coe to Skye
Filming also took place in Glen Coe and the Isle of Skye, widening the production footprint beyond the castle itself. That spread tells you this is not a single-set pickup; the remake is using the Highlands as a full-scale production base, which brings more cast movement and more local attention to each stop.
Kevin McKidd, who was born in Elgin, Moray, is part of the cast, giving the remake another actor with Scottish ties. The location choices and the casting line up with a production that wants the landscape to do more than stand in as background.
Crowe, Bautista, Kintail
Russell Crowe was spotted at a supermarket in Fort William and eating at The Pit Stop at Kintail, where he also posed for photos. Dave Bautista visited a café in Drumnadrochit on the shores of Loch Ness. Those sightings show how widely the production has spilled across the region, turning ordinary Highland stops into part of the film’s orbit.
The immediate read is simple: this remake is being mounted as a location-driven production, not a studio-bound one. For anyone tracking the project, the key takeaway is that the film’s identity is already being built in public, one Highland stop at a time.
