If you think the sword in the stone bit is all there is to the King Arthur story then I feel very, very sorry for you because, oh boy are you missing out on some awesome stories!

I would pay so much money to see a GOOD adaptation of Mists of Avalon

What they should do is Mists of Avalon. (I know it’s been a miniseries or something, but it could be a great movie ... or HBO series.)

And that’s just if you stick to the main story line and don’t include all the other strange bits and pieces of folklore and placenames and his knight’s sidequests. e.g. Gawain and the Green Knight.

I genuinely can’t recall seeing a single commercial for this movie, so the ad campaign was either horifically undersold, or bland and generic to the point of being utterly forgettable.

“Or, alternatively, maybe we could pack away the dark reinterpretations for male audiences and try it as a lavish melodramatic epic marketed to women, full of regal beefcake and impossible longing. Haha, as if! Women don’t buy movie tickets!”

I am shocked, shocked!, I tell you that a douche-tastic trailer for a film designed to launch a franchise/sucker me for admission for 2+ more films, while trying to a put a “modern/fresh” take on an age-old tale would flop.

That was a Chinese production, intended for the Chinese market where it did really well.

A Baba Yaga movie done right could be terrifying.

2. King Arthur doesn’t lend itself well to a Game of Thrones-esque fantasy trilogy. The story is pretty bland: poor kid yanks a sword from a stone and saves the kingdom. So what?

I’d take a re-doing of Mists of Avalon, too.

This. Although I’d also like to see the original concept of the movie that became that mediocre 2010 Robin Hood film, where it’s from the perspective of the Sheriff of Nottingham and Robin Hood’s a more morally ambiguous character and antagonist (which would fit with his “social banditry” roots in the legend).

Could be ‘cause the trailers look awwww-ful ( and we thought the Clive Owen one stunk on ice.). It’s strange that no one has yet to surpass Boorman’s Excalibur— and even that movie gets super xtra-weird in the wonkiest of ways.

Second-hottest Robin Hood after the cartoon fox

OR ... and this is a radical concept for Hollywood I know, but ... we could tell new stories instead of retelling the same old crap ad nauseam?

Robin Hood! There needs to be a new, good, Robin Hood movie made by adults who care about things like “story” and whatnot.

This is the biggest reason for why movie studios should invest in diversity.

It appears that “Knights of the Round Table, but lads” is not a pitch that sells tickets.

MAKE AN HBO SERIES BASED ON IDYLLS OF THE KING, YOU’RE WELCOME, HOLLYWOOD

Trump’s campaign sure had the best and the brightest! In just the last few months, this comes on the heels of: