Since putting Jacob Fatu over in their Unsanctioned Street Fight at WrestleMania 42, former WWE champion Drew McIntyre has been busy making sure his Hollywood dreams don’t end up broken.
That pursuit started with a small role in fellow wrestler-turned-actor Dave Bautista’s 2024 action comedy The Killer’s Game. McIntyre’s post-WrestleMania gig was his highest profile one yet; we’ll see him as the brother of Henry Cavill’s lead character in Amazon MGM’s Highlander reboot from John Wick director Chad
Stahelski.
Russell Crowe is also in the new Highlander, and our Big Scot must have made an impression on the Academy Award winner. Crowe — who has passed through his “Michael Caine in Jaws 4*” phase at this point and is approaching his “Orson Welles in Transformers: The Movie**” era now — is already at work on his next movie The Last Druid, and per Deadline McIntyre just joined that cast, too!
Here’s their plot description of Drew’s next project:
… The movie will tell the story of a Roman Emperor who discovers a secluded Druid stronghold in the mountains of Caledonia. A peaceful Celtic elder (Crowe) must take up arms to protect his family and people from annihilation.
Deadline didn’t bring any details about McIntyre’s part, or how big it is. He joins a cast that includes Crowe’s son Tennyson, Game of Thrones’ Rose Leslie, Stacy Clausen, Pablo Derqui, Andreas Pietschmann, and Daniel Zovatto. Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin director William Eubank is at the helm of this one, which is currently shooting in Spain.
And that likely means we won’t see Big D for at least a few more weeks. A recent report said WWE was planning to have him back for SummerSlam, but he probably won’t have much time to set something up for that August 1-2 premium live event.
We miss the big fella, but we’re also excited to watch his big screen career grow. Let us know in the comments below what you think about Drew McIntyre’s latest role, and its impact on his WWE return.
* Technically, 1987’s Jaws: The Revenge, about which Caine quipped, “I have never seen the film, but by all accounts it was terrible. However I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific.”
** The 1986 animated one, which still the best Transformers movie ever made, and I will die on that hill.
