Plain Old Tele Posted January 27, 2014 Share Posted January 27, 2014 http://www.slashfilm.com/guy-ritchie-circling-six-film-king-arthur-franchise-for-warner-bros/ Six film King Arthur series? YES PLEASE. Guy Ritchie? FUCK NO. Predicts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoolioD1 Posted January 27, 2014 Share Posted January 27, 2014 Only the first one will actually end up getting made, if even that. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plain Old Tele Posted January 27, 2014 Author Share Posted January 27, 2014 I'm a huge King Arthur fan in general and post-LOTR, it's one of the few fantasy projects I'd love to see some to big-budget life. There's certain enough story there to cover multiple movies. The only -- huge -- issue I have is that Guy Ritchie seems like exactly the wrong person to be spearheading this. If he pulls a Sherlock Holmes with this, I'm gonna go all fishnets on the project. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chewy Posted January 27, 2014 Share Posted January 27, 2014 Should probably try to get the first one off the ground before planning out 6 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plain Old Tele Posted January 27, 2014 Author Share Posted January 27, 2014 Should probably try to get the first one off the ground before planning out 6 Studios, man. They want their franchises. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozymandias Posted January 27, 2014 Share Posted January 27, 2014 Do people really care about King Arthur today? I'm not sure if there would be enough interest in these to be huge hits, which is certainly the idea if they're talking about 6 movies. I don't know, King Arthur just seems like Robin Hood, everyone has heard of those characters, but most don't seem to care. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baumer Posted January 27, 2014 Share Posted January 27, 2014 If they are planning 6 of these, can we not finally get an IT trilogy? IMO, it's Stephen King's greatest work, just get the damn thing made. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grim22 Posted January 27, 2014 Share Posted January 27, 2014 I would like to see the first one before the franchise moves ahead, which is exactly what I think the studio will be doing as well. The first one will surely get made, it will have a definite ending but a sequel hook built in, and then based on the reception (and BO figures) decide if they want to make the rest. I would really like some studio to make the Ashok Banker Ramayana series a reality. The set of 7 books already reads like an epic screenplay. No one in India will make it because it will cost too much: http://www.bookshopofindia.com/search.asp?action1=default&bookid=9115150 These are by far the best "Epic" books to come from India. The Meluha trilogy is good, but doesn't have a big scope. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plain Old Tele Posted January 27, 2014 Author Share Posted January 27, 2014 Do people really care about King Arthur Lord of the Rings today? I'm not sure if there would be enough interest in these to be huge hits, which is certainly the idea if they're talking about 6 movies. I don't know, King Arthur Lord of the Rings just seems like Robin Hood, everyone has heard of those characters these stories, but most don't seem to care. Amazingly, this is what I found in the Internet Wayback Machine from 1997. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plain Old Tele Posted January 27, 2014 Author Share Posted January 27, 2014 I would like to see the first one before the franchise moves ahead, which is exactly what I think the studio will be doing as well. The first one will surely get made, it will have a definite ending but a sequel hook built in, and then based on the reception (and BO figures) decide if they want to make the rest. I would really like some studio to make the Ashok Banker Ramayana series a reality. The set of 7 books already reads like an epic screenplay. No one in India will make it because it will cost too much: http://www.bookshopofindia.com/search.asp?action1=default&bookid=9115150 These are by far the best "Epic" books to come from India. The Meluha trilogy is good, but doesn't have a big scope. Shit, man, I'd love to see a big-budget Ramayana. And a Mahabharata franchise too. All these classic epics (along with Arthur, and others) have near-universal appeal, done correctly. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fancyarcher Posted January 27, 2014 Share Posted January 27, 2014 Wow! Talk about jumping the gun. The first one will probably have a budget of over 200 million, and may be fortunate to just barely break even. Don't plan sequels (let alone five), when you have no idea if the first film will be successful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozymandias Posted January 27, 2014 Share Posted January 27, 2014 Amazingly, this is what I found in the Internet Wayback Machine from 1997. Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit were hugely popular before the movies and the hype for Fellowship of the Ring was great memories. Its OW in 2001 was 47m after opening on a Wednesday. I don't see how a King Arthur movie would come close to that adjusted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Empire Posted January 27, 2014 Share Posted January 27, 2014 This could be great if done right. However, I don't have much hope that they will be done right. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plain Old Tele Posted January 27, 2014 Author Share Posted January 27, 2014 Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit were hugely popular before the movies and the hype for Fellowship of the Ring was great memories. Its OW in 2001 was 47m after opening on a Wednesday. I don't see how a King Arthur movie would come close to that adjusted. But hindsight is 20/20. Before the LOTR films got into production, there was serious doubt about whether they'd be big hits or not. The books were popular in the 1950s and 1960s, but had fallen off the cultural radar by the 80s. The only reason the movies got made in the first place is because Bob Shaye was a huge fan and decided to take a flyer on PJ; before NL grabbed the project (at the last minute) it was about to die, because Weinstein first wanted to only do two movies, and then wanted to compress everything into one. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hiccup Posted January 27, 2014 Share Posted January 27, 2014 King Arthur could be massive if done correctly. King Arthur is very popular still. I trust Warner Brothers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmandeep Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 Thing is the story of legendary characters can be told well. You can easily make a great 3 film series on Julius Caesar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neo Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 So many Arthur projects. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TLK Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 Multi-part series idea works for properties with strong fanbase. Who is going to give a fuck about King Arthur three movies into the series ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plain Old Tele Posted January 28, 2014 Author Share Posted January 28, 2014 I think King Arthur has an enormous, albeit latent, potential fanbase. Though I didn't like what Ritchie did with SHERLOCK HOLMES, that character was in a similar state prior to the WB re-imagining. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJohn Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 They will do one. It will fail. And then finally we may have our Sherlock Holmes 3. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...