Make no mistake: “King Arthur: Legend of the Sword” is a superhero origin story. It’s an attempt not to reinvent the well-worn wheel of Arthurian legend, but to retrofit it into a vehicle ...

Guy Ritchie is considering a six-film King Arthur project. The Sherlock Holmes director will team with Warner Bros in the latest attempt to return the mythical king to the big screen, reports ...

Merlin presents Arthur In exchange for using his magic to help lustful King Uther to seduce a nobleman’s wife, Merlin asks the monarch to give him their son, Arthur, at birth. He holds him while ...

Films such as John Boorman´s Excalibur (1981), Robert Bresson´s Lancelot (1972) and Jerry Zucker's First Knight (1995) were pre-cursors to Antoine Fuqua's 2004 Hollywood epic King Arthur.

Warner Bros. is ramping up a re-imagined King Arthur feature with David Dobkin attached to direct and produce from his own script — the third such Arthurian project set up in the past two years ...

Whether Arthur was actually a king or merely a warrior, however, is less clear. It is believed that he was the leader of Brythonic forces, and was killed following the battle of Camlann in about 515.

The project is a King Arthur story, but reminiscent of Clint Eastwood’s classic Western Unforgiven and follows Sir Lancelot as an older man who is bent on making amends after his love for ...