King Arthur: Legend of the Sword | Guy Ritchie | May 12, 2017 | Charlie Hunnam

[kayumanggi]

Guy Ritchie's 'King Arthur' set for July 2016 release: http://t.co/0PnFw2VszB

— Box Office Mojo (@boxofficemojo)

April 10, 2014

[kayumanggi]

This needs to be moved.

[Dementeleus]

Moved.

[Dementeleus]

Merged my old topic as well.

[Fancyarcher]

This sounds like a huge flop waiting to happen.

[The Panda]

And yet im still waiting for my Genghis Khan movie....

[Jawa]

His Sherlock Holmes movies are made of poop.

[Michael Gary Scott]

This won't even be as good as the last King Arthur movie

[Impact]

There is a King Arthur film every decade it seems, and they all seem to flop both critically and financially.

[Fancyarcher]

There is a King Arthur film every decade it seems, and they all seem to flop both critically and financially.

 

Excalibur didn't do that bad with critics and box office, right?

[Impact]

Not sure really about critics, I don't think it was liked at the time.

[Impact]

Now here is an idea-lets not PC it and have the women all toughen up.

[Fancyarcher]

On 4/11/2014 at 11:51 PM, Impact said:

Not sure really about critics, I don't think it was liked at the time.

 

I know Ebert gave it a mixed review, not sure about Siskel though (nobody has uploaded the Sneak Previews episode yet), but it did make 34 million in 1981 (being the 18th highest grossing film of 1981), which isn't bad. Unsure about the budget though.

Edited April 14, 2016 by Daniel Dylan Davis

[Neo]

This won't even be as good as the last King Arthur movie

[rb02]

The budget for Excalibur was only 10M.  Considering that the gross more than tripled the budget, it's safe to say that it was NOT a flop, especially when the known gross is domestic only (for whatever reason, foreign grosses for movies from that era are often undocumented).  Far from doing badly, it was actually quite a hit.  It was also generally well-received by critics. 

[TalismanRing]

Of course, Guy Ritchie is no John Boorman.  Boorman did Excaliber because he couldn't get his version of Lord Of The Rings off the ground and he wound up using several of his ideas for LOTR on Excaliber.  I'd have loved to see his version of LOTR which sounds more than a bit batshit - think Zardoz.

 

http://cinetropolis.net/the-great-unmade-john-boormans-the-lord-of-the-rings/

Edited April 11, 2014 by TalismanRing

[DMan7]

I here I was thinking that would be the date WB would escape to for Bats Vs Supes against Cap 3.

[Neo]

I here I was thinking that would be the date WB would escape to for Bats Vs Supes against Cap 3.

Still over 2 years out things can move.

[kayumanggi]

His Sherlock Holmes movies are made of poop.

 

The SHERLOCK HOLMES movies were fun.

[Ezen Baklattan]

And yet im still waiting for my Genghis Khan movie....

John Wayne wasn't good enough for you?