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Hollywood Reporter: King Arthur could lose $150M for WB and Village Roadshow
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the one guy from son of anarchy who also starred in pacific rim with idris is pretty much it
Sapiens
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He'll be cheap to get once they make the Netflix reunion of undeclared where the KIDS of the undeclared are the next generation of undeclareees.
Yes, that's how long ago undeclared came out.
Yet he keeps getting projects.
They always come back.
I assume this means you haven't seen Pacific Rim and I truly envy you for that.
His next film is a remake of Papillon
Hollywood needs to stop throwing these tv people into the deep end, it's easy to look good when you only have to carry 2-5 minutes of a hour long show.
Go watch Lost City of Z.
Slackbladder
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Yep, I second that. It's got some great lines and some great shots. Some of the performances are a bit off. But overall it's fucking epic.
broncobuster
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What a comforting sentence for Americans.
LOL
He is a fucking revelation in Young Pope.
I just went to watch the final Trailer for King Arthur. Despite the poor reviews and abysmal box office I was willing to give this movie the benefit of the doubt. I like Guy Ritchie and I'm always down for neat turns on established concepts. King Arthur as a fast-fingered, fast-talking street tough? Why not?
What a terrible fucking trailer. Just nonsensical action beats punctuated by terrible dialogue. Whatever strengths this movie had (if any) this trailer definitely did not lean into them. Guess I'll give it a miss and go see Alien: Covenant instead.
What a terrible fucking trailer. Just nonsensical action beats punctuated by terrible dialogue. Whatever strengths this movie had (if any) this trailer definitely did not lean into them. Guess I'll give it a miss and go see Alien: Covenant instead.
I mean, I think the script (maybe moreso the story than the specific dialogue) and marketing doomed it.
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In the US maybe.
I'm watching the shit out of this. So is everyone I know.
I'm watching the shit out of this. So is everyone I know.
So you just skipped the part where it also plays terribly internationally?
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Yes.
I didn't​ want to hear that shit. It hasnt even opened here yet.
I didn't​ want to hear that shit. It hasnt even opened here yet.
brianjones
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i feel bad for hunam
he was real solid in lost city of z
he's come a long way since undeclared
he was real solid in lost city of z
he's come a long way since undeclared
Are you in the UK?
Even if King Arthur pulls a BFG there, it won't really make much of a difference.
Into the Light
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Armie Hammer somehow still finds work.
yeah Hollywood, lets try the three musketeers next...............again.
They are so out of touch.
I think that "no one cares about King Arthur" is way too simplistic.
No one cares about Tarzan either, and that still made over $125M domestic and $350M worldwide last year (granted, the budget was too high there as well). This film is heading for less than a third of that domestic, and maybe half of that worldwide.
It's not just that "No one cares about King Arthur". It's that nothing in this film was really working for audiences. The right take on King Arthur, with a budget that was $50-75M lower, could have probably done well.
No one cares about Tarzan either, and that still made over $125M domestic and $350M worldwide last year (granted, the budget was too high there as well). This film is heading for less than a third of that domestic, and maybe half of that worldwide.
It's not just that "No one cares about King Arthur". It's that nothing in this film was really working for audiences. The right take on King Arthur, with a budget that was $50-75M lower, could have probably done well.
cartographer
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He's a white man in Hollywood. It's going to take a lot more than one poor action movie to take him down.
It needs to be at least 23 poor action movies.
Aliens vs Predator vs King Arthur.
Sam Worthington gotta eat too.
WB is preparing a DCEU role for him as we speak
Who do you think is the surprise in the post credit stinger in our Bland White Male Actor Cinematic Universe?!
One of the big problems with Monster Trucks was they had to redo all of the special effects in the film after children in test audiences screamed at horror at the original incarnation of the alien.
What I wouldn't give to see the original footage and see just how badly they missed the mark.
You can say what you want but i was really surprised from the trailer. And i thought "mummy reboot? LulZ" too. In the right timespot and with the right marketing i see this rather being successful than a bomb.
AngmarsKing701
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There is a way to do King Arthur correctly. Look at the success of shows like Vikings or The Last Kingdom. In fact, Bernard Cornwell, who wrote the Saxon Stories that the Last Kingdom is based on, has a fantastic Arthurian series as well.
Essentially, stop the medieval stuff and place Arthur where he likely existed (if he existed): as a warlord in the dark ages. Then consider that most of the stories were embellished out the ass and build a believable history of the character and how he managed to keep the fall of Rome and the world he inherited from being completely overrun by the Picts and Scots and Irish and Vikings and and and.
Essentially, stop the medieval stuff and place Arthur where he likely existed (if he existed): as a warlord in the dark ages. Then consider that most of the stories were embellished out the ass and build a believable history of the character and how he managed to keep the fall of Rome and the world he inherited from being completely overrun by the Picts and Scots and Irish and Vikings and and and.
he never did anything noteworthy. pretty face is all he is.
As one from an older generation, Excalibur doesn't get enough love...such a good version and still holds up.
evilromero
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Why do they keep making Arthur movies? Same question for Tarzan, King Kong, Peter Pan and Wizard of Oz.
The subtext and premise of those stories has been co-opted so many times by modern movies that they've become irrelevant.
The subtext and premise of those stories has been co-opted so many times by modern movies that they've become irrelevant.
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a lot of my threads involve me fucking up somehow. Perhaps I'm a moron?
Jack Whyte and Mary Stewart need some love in this respect as well.
I could not agree more with your second paragraph. I've been reading Arthurian books since I was a kid and the very best ones take place WAY before all this Knight in Shining Armour crap. It's brutal, barbaric, uncivilized post-Rome Britain. Give me something true to the era, make it realistic and as historically accurate as possible (given the material) and that would amazing.
Yep, lol.
I love those quintessential Oscar baits released during the summer season.
It's a 150M+ blockbuster.
I have a feeling the Nolan fandom can only carry a movie so much and this will be Nol-man's first true financial disappointment.
Dunkirk will be interesting to watch at the box office.
Nolan's contract for the film will make it even harder to recoup a large budget. He's getting $20M up front + 20% of the WW gross.
Dragon Puncher
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Yes. It's absolutely terrible. The jokes fall flat, the plot makes little sense and some of the acting is amazingly bad for how big a production it is.
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