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Guardians of the Galaxy’s Bautista May Have Just Landed the Best Role in the Highlander Reboot

He cares about these helpless mortals?

The World Premiere Of Marvel's Epic Space Adventure "Guardians Of The Galaxy" - Red CarpetCan you guess who Dave Bautista might be playing?

The actor is keeping himself pretty busy between Guardians of the Galaxy and its sequel. We’ll also be seeing him as an assassin in the next Bond film, Spectre. But Latino Review is reporting he’s landed another pretty big role: The Kurgan.

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Bautista is going to play the bad ass barbarian role of THE KURGAN in Summit’s Highlander reboot for visual effects artist turned first time director Cedric Nicolas-Troyan. The original Highlander, released back in 1986, starred Christopher Lambert as Connor MacLeod, an immortal Scottish swordsman who, after centuries of dueling to survive against others like him, is forced to confront one final foe: the Kurgan, a murderously brutal barbarian who lusts for the prize that comes with being the last immortal.

Fans of the original film will recall the role was previously played by the awesome Clancy Brown, oft-inhabitant of the DC animated universe and guest star on The CW’s Flash.

KurganBautista’s totally going to rock this.

There’s still no word on who’s playing Connor MacLeod for the lead of the film. Ryan Reynolds was previously attached to star, but he left a short while after 28 Weeks Later director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo exited the project. Current director Nicolas-Troyan was the second unit director and visual effects supervisor for Snow White and the Huntsman.

(via Blastr, image by Charley Gallay/Getty Images for Disney)

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Jill Pantozzi is a pop-culture journalist and host who writes about all things nerdy and beyond! She’s Editor in Chief of the geek girl culture site The Mary Sue (Abrams Media Network), and hosts her own blog “Has Boobs, Reads Comics” (TheNerdyBird.com). She co-hosts the Crazy Sexy Geeks podcast along with superhero historian Alan Kistler, contributed to a book of essays titled “Chicks Read Comics,” (Mad Norwegian Press) and had her first comic book story in the IDW anthology, “Womanthology.” In 2012, she was featured on National Geographic’s "Comic Store Heroes," a documentary on the lives of comic book fans and the following year she was one of many Batman fans profiled in the documentary, "Legends of the Knight."

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