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Colin Farrell Not Starring In ‘Arthur & Lancelot’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday March 29, 2012 @ 6:58pm PDTTags: Arthur & Lancelot, Colin Farrell, David Dobkin, Warner Bros
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Setting the leads for Arthur & Lancelot is proving as elusive as pulling the sword from the stone. Colin Farrell, who’d been in early talks to play Lancelot in the latest configuration of the David Dobkin-directed film for Warner Bros, is out. Scheduling is the reason, I’m told. There is a lot of prep and training required for the action heavy role of Lancelot, and it didn’t work out. Warner Bros, which rejected the project because it cost $20 million more than the $110 million that the studio was willing to spend, got back in the mix with the idea of pairing Farrell with Gary Oldman (for Merlin) and an actor to play King Arthur (I heard the studio approached James McAvoy and other actors). Warner Bros, which paid $2 million to acquire Dobkin’s script last summer, is eager to make the movie and cast will materialize quickly, I’m told.

This is the second cast configuration. Warner Bros, which dated the film for a March 15, 2013 release, had cast Game of Thrones’ Kit Harington to play Arthur and The Killing‘s Joel Kinnaman to play Lancelot. Even though Kinnaman was subsequently cast in the title character of MGM’s Robocop remake and Harington returns as a major character in the second season of the HBO series, the studio was being nervous about a big budget with unproven stars.

 

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Warner Bros Reconsidering ‘Arthur & Lancelot,’ With Colin Farrell In Lead Role

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday March 14, 2012 @ 10:49am PDTTags: Arthur & Lancelot, Colin Farrell, David Dobkin
Mike Fleming

BREAKING: Warner Bros, which late last year put the brakes on David Dobkin’s Arthur & Lancelot, is once again in active talks to make the movie. I’m hearing that Colin Farrell is in the center of talks that aim to … Read More »

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Warner Bros Shifts ‘Rock Of Ages,’ ‘Jack The Giant Killer,’ ‘Arthur & Lancelot’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday January 19, 2012 @ 6:09pm PSTTags: Arthur & Lancelot, Jack the Giant Killer, Rock of Ages

Warner Bros has tweaked released schedules for a trio of movies this year and next. year. Rock Of Ages shifts to June 15 this summer from June 1. It’s moving into WB slot vacated by Jack The Giant Killer which moved to March 22, 2013 from June 15, 2012. Arthur … Read More »

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‘Arthur & Lancelot’ In Warner Bros Budget Crisis: Projected $130M Cost Too High

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday December 13, 2011 @ 10:20am PSTTags: Arthur & Lancelot, At the Mountains of Madness, David Dobkin, Guy Ritchie, Joel Kinnaman, The Dark Tower, The Lone Ranger
Mike Fleming

STUNNER! Legendary Pictures Postpones January Start Of ‘Paradise Lost’

EXCLUSIVE: Legendary Pictures’ Paradise Lost isn’t the only film being readied on the Warner Bros lot to face a budget crisis. Arthur & Lancelot, the David Dobkin script that Warner … Read More »

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Warner Bros Hot For ‘Arthur & Lancelot’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday July 25, 2011 @ 12:55pm PDTTags: Arthur & Lancelot, Bryan Singer, David Dobkin, Guy Ritchie, Jason Bateman, John Boorman, John Hodge, Lionel Wigram, Ryan Reynolds, Warner Bros
Mike Fleming

When Deadline broke news last month that Warner Bros has paid $2 million to acquire the David Dobkin spec script Arthur & Lancelot in a bidding war that involved Universal and Fox, insiders said the project would be fast-tracked. … Read More »

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Warner Bros Buys David Dobkin’s ‘Arthur & Lancelot’ For $2 Million

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday June 17, 2011 @ 4:57pm PDTTags: Arthur & Lancelot, David Dobkin, Warner Bros
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros has locked a deal to acquire the David Dobkin spec script Arthur & Lancelot for $2 million in a bidding war that involved Universal and Fox. Script is a $90 million budget contemporary re-imagining of the classic … Read More »

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