Guy Ritchie To Develop Warren Ellis’ Excalibur Project

By Kevin Coll • March 4, 2010 • View Comments

Not to be confused with the Bryan Singer remake of the John Boorman 1981 film, Excalibur this film which has Guy Ritchie attached is being titled the same name as of now is based off a screenplay from profound writer Warren Ellis.

We reported the story back in July of last year and unlike the Singer project, which was said to be a straight-up remake, this film plans to be a much different take on the material. Here’s an excerpt from the site.

While Singer’s version is closer to a remake of the Boorman film, Ritchie’s possible take is more in the tone of Star Wars, and, as Ellis noted last year, his version “differs from the prior 751 King Arthur movies in many ways, but perhaps most obviously in that it is very specifically about the gathering of the Knights.”

It seems that the since both projects are set up at Warners this version of Arthur is going to be fast tracked with Ritchie attached since Singer’s project has no writer attached yet and he completely swamped with X-Men: The First Class, a Battlestar Galactica film and Jack the Giant Killer. I really like the Star Wars idea of Excalibur where Arthur is like Luke and the Knights are Jedi and Merlin is very Obi-wan type with Mordred presumably as Darth Vader.

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Kevin is a film freak, just ask him something movie related and he lights up like a Christmas tree. Originally his destiny was to go to film school, hit LA and try and become the next big thing. Circumstances change but in college, he fell in love with writing. After several failed attempts in starting a legit and hip school online magazine for his university Kevin moved into the blogosphere for himself and began Kevin’s Rant which in 2007 morphed into Fused Film. Kevin has contributed articles on other sites like Geeks of Doom and FilmShaft, he has also been a guest on podcasts for MovieViral and The Film Feed at FS.Net. His favorite movie of all time is Empire Strikes Back, he loves his Chucks, he is an avid Stargate fan and classic rock is his music scene. Email him at: kcoll@fusedfilm.com Follow His Twitter: FusedFilm