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Guy Ritchie And The Writer Of TRAINSPOTTING Take On...King Arthur!!
Merrick here...
While continuing to develop a SHERLOCK HOLMES sequel, Guy Ritchie has also been attached to a King Arthur project over at Warners. The film is being written by John Hodge.
Project aims to be a re-imagining of the legend of Arthur, believed to have been a 6th century king who defended Britain against Saxon invaders. Key source material will be Thomas Mallory's "Le Morte d'Arthur," published in 1485 as a compilation of French and English tales.
...says Variety HERE.
Hodge previously scripted TRAINSPOTTING, SHALLOW GRAVE, and A LIFE LESS ORDINARY.
Mallory's LE MORTE D' ARTHUR was perviously used as source material for John Boorman's EXCALIBUR, which featured a super-hot sex scene in which Uther Pendragon puts it to Lady Igraine while wearing his armor, thus conceiving Arthur. Fetishistically provocative even by today's standards.
You can find copies of LE MORTE D' ARTHUR HERE
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Other notable King Arthur films include the Bruckheimer produced KING ARTHUR (2004)...Jerry Zucker's FIRST KNIGHT in 1995 (Sean Connery as Arthur)...UNIDENTIFIED FLYING ODDBALL - aka THE SPACEMAN IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT (1979) - in which an astronaut and his look-alike robot end up back in Arthurian times (temporal hilarity was supposed to ensue)...and ARTHUR (1981), in which Dudley Moore portrayed the King as a drunken loner looking for love in New York City, assisted by John Gielgud's wizardly henchman. Oh, wait...
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That's all I got.
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Or no deal.
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Still the definitive version of a King Arthur film.
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A young nude Helen Mirren. Sorry Excalibur's still got ya beat.
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Who would STILL bang Helen Mirren? Cause... I think I might. Do I need help?
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You are not alone good sir!
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is guy ritchie TRYING to bore his audiences?
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I loved how all he did in "King Arthur" was breathe heavily and not be able to actually pick up his fake sword because all the camera shots of him were low and it was fucking obvious as hell. But to quote Bones,"I like him!"
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Thanks, man. She's still sexy...
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Bring back Richard Gere, but this time as Arthur. Holy fucking shit that would be awesome!!!!!
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Wasn't Guy supposed to be attached to the Excalibur project Warren Ellis was working on? Is this the same project with a new writer or what?
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We'll get a "gritty" Arthur, who talks like a cockney fucking muppet in this version.
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...I love A LIFE LESS ORDINARY.
A favorite in fact. -
Will anyone EVER make Bernard Cornwell's 'Winter King' trilogy?Noboy wants to see this fucking Camelot and Round Table bollocks ever again - we've already had the definitive version (Excalibur) and the definitive spoof (Python). How about someone actually tries for a more realistic, gritty approach (and that Kiera Knightly shit doesn't count, either!)
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... well, i´m standing in line here... who´s next??
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Sorry dude, I'm being greedy and going again!
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It wasn't even an interesting/entertaining movie. Oh well.
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Guy Ritchie directing? Does that mean I'll need to watch it with sub-titles?
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I LOVE Ridley Scott, but after seeing the promotional material for Robin Hood, I never want to see another period adventure/drama from the man ever again. Give it to a person like Ritchie, and you can be sure to (at least) get something interesting. Might work. Might not. But at least it will be a new twist. And there hasn't been a good Arthur movie since Monty Python, so its time for an interesting return. Ni!
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Life Less Ordinary was an admirable miss.
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Get Guillermo Del Torro or Pete Jackson(OBVIOUSLY THIS WOULD NEVER occur..)would be better choices, becuase a straight forward "real life" Arthur would bore me.If they add in some mythical creatures, the sword in the lake/stone, Merlin wielding magic-we MAY have something here.The last KING ARTHUR was atrociously boring.(And in my opinion, as was most of Sherlocke Holmes)
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Thank goodness!
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The psychotic angels alone make the film rock for me.
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Since he starred in the other 3 films written by Hodge.
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If this new movie doesn't have a two headed dragon doing an Elvis impression and a half chicken/half axe that says "Do you feel clucky punk?" then I for one will be very dissapointed.
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When my buddies and I play Dungeons & Dragons, we play music from fantasy/medieval movies in the background to set the mood. Lord of the Rings, Conan, 300, stuff like that.
One session, I put on the CD for First Knight.
Immediately, I was treated to a chorus of, "WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS SHIT?!" -
Oh man, I forgot the SUCK that is that film. Although(and I know this is silly),as a kid, I thought Connery's brief performance was poignant and moving.Poor guy, his wife getting fucked by his number 2.Although THAT film was god awful too.I recall the obstalce course//training thing in camp.God, what utter stupidity.And how fake looking it appeared(yet,its supposed to look menacing)
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And then I'd say why am I playing Dungeons & Dragons at 29?
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The other night, they showed clips of her from the 70's and early 80's and she was hot as hell, and yes, still hot enough...
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Bigass, balls-out, action movie score. None of that toned-down, toss-my-salad you pointey-eared-elf bullshit. Jerry Goldsmith owns all your asses!
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Guy Ritchie doing a King Arthur film? Ugh. If it were Peter Ho-Sun Chan or Sergei Bodrov... I'd be intrigued. To this day... no one has topped Boorman's interpretation of the King Arthur legend. I predict Ritchie will fall way short.
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the kid that played young Octavian in Rome would be perfect for Mordred!
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with Arthur crawling out of an oversized toilet?
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One of the best low budget thrillers ever made. Christopher Eccleston is fargin excellent in that movie.
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Just as Burton is giving his stale, tired take on stale, tired fairy tales, is Ritchie now starting an equally tired, predictable "Ritchie-esque" take on tire, familiar stories of old?I'd hate to see this sort of formulaic "re-imagining" become a gravy train for directors who've run out of original ideas. Personally, I'm more than sick of lazy "re-imaginings". (Note that 'Robin Hood' didn't exactly set the world on fire.)Ritchie, there are lots of Arthurian tales which haven't already been done to death. Have the guts to take on a story that everyone doesn't already know.
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Oh my God, she was ridiculous back then. And she seems like she has NO hang-ups...
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Guy Richie gone the way of Tim Burton meaning they are big studio drones pumping out glossy forgetfull movies, I thought he was back on form with Rockinrolla but them he gon and did it with Sherlock Holmes.
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Mar 10, 2010 10:42:06 AM CST
Corey Haim would have been perfect for this.........
by thedannerdaliel
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That vicious rabbit, I'm in. "The most foul, cruel, and bad-tempered rodent you ever set eyes on!"
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Is that the one that didn't set the world on fire? I guess not, but it almost quadrupled the investment so there's that.
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Just tripled. My bad. Epic fail, I guess.
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I want a live action magical version of King Arthur! Is that too much to ask? Has there ever been one that went all out with the magic? The only full on magical King Arthur movie I can think of is Sword in the Stone.
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With further reflection, I'm definitely NOT down with this. "Sherlock," while entertaining, eviscerated the character completely.
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Oh my bodies fill with so much cum right now I choke on it and it is thick and salty. More cum came into my eyes that I had to wipe away when I see a preview for a new movie INGLOURIOUS BASTERD BABYZ http://tinyurl.com/yztnbwh
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And don't forget the vicious rabbit...Then we can experience the joy that is Gere shoving the rabbit up his ass!
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To slay MC_DBoratLyte? Pretty please. Like Juilian Glover's Walter Donovan, I would totally be willing to help fund that quest.
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in hot lesbo action. GILF joy. Is there something wrong in thinking that?
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NO. Can I witness live?
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finally adapting The Forever King?
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MC_DLyte has GOT to be a gag. I'll put some money up for that Hard Target action too (even though that Solomon Kane review WAS kinda funny for a few seconds..).
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Do you then say, "why am I frequenting a geeky web site about geeky movies at 29, and posting comments which imply I'm somehow not a geek with arrested development?"Just relax and enjoy your own fantasies. Posting here takes a lot less work and imagination than playing a game, after all, so who are you to judge?
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After all these years- Excalibur, even with its flaws, remains the best adaptation of Arthurean Legend to this date.Damn Hollywood, so much material going to waste.
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what you want you wife to look like when your 65. Hell, I'd be living off of viagra. BTW, Helen Mirren was sweet in Caligula.
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...getting past the anachronistic plate armor. Now it doesn't bother me, since the legend is an amalgam of different time periods.
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This is the wrong project for this team. Why not have Ritchie do Camelot 3000? It's long overdue, and would ROCK with Guy Ritchie involved
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There goes another legend in the hands of a butcher!
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Shit, the whole movie is already storyboarded because it's a self-contained 12-issue DC Comics series. Oh, and cast Olivia Wilde for the Year 3000 Tristan for those scenes with Isolde.
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must this retard ruin another property?
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The story of Arthur is older than the english language by about 500 years so subtitles should be the norm or learn to speak welsh.He came from a time of Celtic British isles not english although they want him to be english he can never be.
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Are you implying that posting on a movie website is the same as still playing Dungeons & Dragons? Seriously?
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The Last Legion is also about King Arthur/Excalibur
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I like grit and realism but for King Arthur I want a fucking gleaming magic sword, the lady in the lake, the knights of the round table, and merlin shooting fire mixed with lightning to go with the political intrigue. Maybe some monsters, I don't know.
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instead of Robin Hood.
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Excalibur, and some of it's fellow 80s fan-favorite films, were the last major movies adapted from famous source material that took it seriously. Nowadays, everything has to be a deconstruction, a knowing wink - all very postmodern. Compare Alice in Wonderland's approach to Lord of the Rings - LOTR didn't wink-and-nod about it's fantasy material, and it as great for it. King Arthur was too heavy-metal, tough-bitch postmodern-reimagining to be any good. If they can be honest and earnest about the source material, they'll make something great.
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When are we getting Porno the Trainspotting sequel?
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Pretty Boy Lancelot hittin on Guinevere, Mad Dog Mordred hammerin a knight in the head. You're feelin it right?
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danny boyle and guy ritchie would make an awesome combination, so ill see it. and im guessing we aren't getting a 'porno' movie is because the book sucked compared to trainspotting
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How about a Epic of Gilgamesh movie, a St. George who slayed the dragon movie, or a Hercules movie or another of the other thousand other mythological figures in universal history.
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but Ritchie did fine work there (I'd have prefered a darker and more serious tone but to be fair most other HOLMES movies are so it was a nice change). Looking forward to his take on Arthur which I hope will be an entirely mostly British affair (I only object to any Yankee interference or presence on screen) and have an actual proper Merlin - not like that Bruckheimer crap. They should go with a four hour + movie though.
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Maybe Guy Richie will be attached some day....
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that other trailer looked terrible. if i hadn't seen that i would be interested. so, if it is a britain, fighting off the saxons, will he get to say 'long live the welsh?'
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I don't think there has ever been a big screen version of this.
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... for a real story with parallels to modern days, but this will degenerate into a sword and sorcery popcorn move in SuperDuper3D.
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Here we go again! Because Jerry Fuckheimer produced/antoine Fuckqua directed KING ARTHUR had not been bad enough and caused enough dammage already! I really used to be Guy Ritchie's fan... once! I even liked Revolver, for fuck's sake. He task me!
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... the acteress that plays Igraim, the girl who gets it from the guy in armour, and who will be Arthur's mother, she was one of director John Doorman's daughter. Another of his daughters plays the Lady Of The Lake who gives Arthur his Excalibur back after he breaks it fighting Lancelot.Man, Boorman's daughters are hot!!!
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I remember totally enjoying that film any time I've seen it. Anyway... So long as they don't call it, write about it or advertise it as a remake of Excalibur, I'm fine with it. Much like Robin Hood, there are a ton of Arthurian films, but most of them fail to hit their mark. I'd love a modern, well produced, cast and directed (art and set included) telling of King Arthur. Just leave Excalibur alone. Please.
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Still one of the best films ever
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I saw that photo that made the rounds of Mirren in a bikini, and damn!, she's still got it!
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The Winter King from Bernard Cornwell hasn't been made yet? Hands down the single best King Arthur telling ever put to print and no one has picked it up. Its even made as a perfect trilogy for film with each book being stand alone awesome for film.
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Knowing Hollywood, they'll include a ROCK music soundtrack, "Bullet Time" fight sequences, Actors with todays hair styles and modern day slang words in the script. I'll stick with Excalibur thanks. FUCK OFF HOLLYWOOD!
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It's about time that got remade.
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Mar 10, 2010 7:11:14 PM CST
Current BBC Merlin series = no need for new Arthur movie
by performingmonkey
I really like the BBC Merlin series. 3rd season later this year, bring it on. Btw there can never be a definitive King Arthur adaptation. People slate the BBC Merlin for inacurracies but the legend is so open you can do ANYTHING with it, as long as you have the character of Arthur, obviously... You could cut Merlin, Mordred, Guinevere, Lancelot, Camelot etc. and it would still be King Arthur.
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And a respectful, faithful one. Not a Guy Ritchification.
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but I believe 'Le Morte d'Arthur,' inspired Tennyson's 'Idylls of the King,' which I loved...So I'm taking this as good news.
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is the Merlin TV movie that starred Sam Neill. Saying that, if they bring him in to play Merlin in this, I'd totally would go see this.
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...it will have to better than that utter shit-fest version from 2004. We have legends for a reason: they are entertaining and cool. Who the hell wants to see a HISTORICAL legend movie that takes apart the legend?
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Man that trailer makes me want to pop in my DVD. I love me some Excalibur.
Guy Ritchie doing this might be ok. Only if he has Jason Statham in it. "What do ya need protection from? Ze Saxons?" -
Is THE definitive version of the King Arthur story, nothing since has come close to it at all. First Knight? Awful, and I always like me some Sean Connery and he was the only reason that FK was not complete and utter garbage. King Arthur? Was ok, but still not close to Boorman's movie. Stop trying to improve on things Hollywood, you have shown us time and time again that you can't (well most of the time there are a few exceptions) stop remaking every fucking movie under the sun and start giving us something good for christ's sake. Let's see...what could possibly be next...a remake of Hackers????? Im sure Jolie would do it if you pay her enough....sheeeesh.
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Why not remake Cool Hand Luke? Yea because you can do better than Paul Newman's brilliant performance right? Wait for it......Citizen Kane, that's gotta be in someone's head to remake right? Fucking asshole Hollywood suits. No imagination. No creativity. Only dollar signs in their field of vision.
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I'd like to see Caviezel as Arthur and Pierce as Lancelot. The kid that played young Octavion in Rome as Mordred and Billy Connely as Merlin !
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Git tae fuck, ya cunt ye - 'fore I pit this soard through yer fuckin' heid...
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