After pulling an enchanted sword from a stone, a streetwise misfit will discover a greater destiny. Together with a mage, a handful of knights and some fellow miscreants must face this calling and stand up against a tyrannical king who wields dark a...
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DISCLAIMER: Although the characters expressed in this fiction are technically public domain, it's in the context of a film by Warner Bros. King Arthur: Legend of the Sword was an awesome movie. I actually went to watch it twice in cinemas and bought the Blu-ray the day it hit the shelves...in fact they were still stocking the shelves when I got my copy. Yet I still couldn't help but think it didn't reach its full potential. There was a way to make fresh the old Arthurian legends in a way that excited and I kind of felt the movie could lean more to a Demon's Souls kind of visual world-building. Another thing was the characters, their names and roles I felt were mismatched.
Warner Bros. Pictures had apparently made multiple attempts to delve into the Arthurian legends. Originally, the studio planned to remake John Boorman's Excalibur, to be directed by Bryan Singer of X-Men fame, which would have been an interesting choice. They had already written a script for it and were looking for lead actors. Singer's controversies notwithstanding, after his other fantasy film, 2013's Jack the Giant Slayer bombed, WB seemed to have had cold feet and cancelled the Boorman remake.
The creatives at Warner then decided to focus onmore original works— a little project called Arthur & Lancelot, starringthen-unknowns Kit Harington playing, I think, Arthur and Joel Kinnaman as Lancelot if I'm not mistaken. It did not last and Arthur wouldremain shelved.
Then, along came Guy Ritchie with an idea for a multi-film slate of Arthurian stories, creating a shared cinematic universe following different characters that would eventually team up. Ambitious but I could see it work. This is my attempt at such an idea, how I would try and remake King Arthur: Legend of the Sword.
In my iteration of that film, I picture a blend between a Souls-esque aesthetic like Demon's Souls, or Dark Souls, and Mortal Shell, Dragon Age and the old Excalibur movie especially the armour and other wardrobe. I picture the armour designs from Demon's Souls and Mortal Shell, full plated and badass, a little unrealistic but awesome. For the bad guys; I'd have them in a sort of Roman-esque armour, I pictured Ryse: Son of Rome but with pants. The Mages use magic like Dragon Age with the martial arts style stuff.
Most of the cast I feel fit the characters so I changed little, maybe added and substituted others. And you read correctly, I cast Henry Cavill as Merlin. Superman himself. I heard he tried out for the role of Arthur but lost to Charlie, if I were WB in order to mend fences with him I'd have kept him for other roles, Merlin gets top billing for me.
As for Arthur himself, I love Charlie Hunnam; he was great in Sons of Anarchy, good in Pacific Rim and I loved him in The Gentleman, but here, I believe they mixed up the casting. Charlie should have been Robin Hood (2018), and Taron Egerton should have been King Arthur. Who better than a Welshman.
