Warner Bros Hot For ‘Arthur & Lancelot’

COMMENTS (11)

• So this is a gay Camelot re-do? Verily, not that there’s anything wrong with that!

  Comment by Michael — Monday July 25, 2011 @ 1:02pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Good news…bad news.

  This “squashed several other sword and stone pics that WB was developing”…the bad news is, of course…”Arthur and Lancelot” survived.

  Comment by tom — Monday July 25, 2011 @ 3:03pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • It’s Warner Brothers, It’s nice to see that the stupid crack heads who okayed the AOL Merger are still there.

    Comment by Joe — Monday July 25, 2011 @ 3:13pm PDT  Reply to this post

    • No they’re not. You are an idiot.

      Comment by reality — Tuesday July 26, 2011 @ 9:47am PDT  Reply to this post

• Something tells me this will be like that disastrous Othelo high school dance school re-imagining with Julia Stiles.
  And like that one, this will suck.
  But they’ll probably attach Taylor Lautner or Robert Pattison to this, so it’ll make a lot of money.

  Comment by Manny — Monday July 25, 2011 @ 4:28pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • Brilliant! You should be a Casting Director! (Read; Sarcasm – Sorta)

    Comment by Patrick — Monday July 25, 2011 @ 7:34pm PDT  Reply to this post

• David Dobkin? The guy who directed Fred Claus? Wow!

  Comment by Ed — Monday July 25, 2011 @ 8:21pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Glad the “Excalibur” remake is on hold. Why remake a great movie? Zephyr Productions has something fresher, better, bolder to offer than “Arthur & Lancelot”. It’s the dark ages visionary drama– “Charlemagne” –relevant, resonant, a stunning cinematic story. Not some remake, or period redux. Who needs yet another version of Camelot?! (“Arthur & Lancelot”: I’m not alone thinking Warner Bros. courts disaster with that choice.) Now… Sony or Universal could definitely score huge internationally with “Charlemagne”! A really compelling multidimensional drama.

  Comment by Matt Ballinger — Monday July 25, 2011 @ 9:06pm PDT  Reply to this post

• “Bidding war”….I have this image in my head of the assistant to the writer’s agent sliding up beside some WB or Uni execs at a restaurant and having a fake phone conversation, within hearing distance of said execs, in which they say “….yeah, I heard Bruckheimer is going after the “Arthur & Lancelot” script and it’s going to be the next big thing….shhh, don’t tell anyone, he wants to close the deal before the other studios get wind of it”.

  As a result, the dick measuring contest, ummm…I mean bidding war begins!

  Comment by G — Tuesday July 26, 2011 @ 7:33am PDT  Reply to this post

• I guess they haven’t seen the trailer for “The Change-Up”?.

  Comment by Chris — Tuesday July 26, 2011 @ 9:52am PDT  Reply to this post

• This sounds like a really bad idea, akin to “Riding Hood,” and the amazingly cheesy looking “Snow White and the Huntsman.” I would be willing to bet the “contemporary re-imaging” part will not be clever enough by half. And, yes, as someone already pointed out, this period tale is being brought to you by the guy who made “Fred Claus” and “The Change-Up” ??

  This is just Hollywood, once again, taking the easy road – laying down a lot of money on an idea that’s familiar but not necessarily good.

  Comment by leo — Tuesday July 26, 2011 @ 10:39am PDT  Reply to this post