Warner Bros. is still trying to make Arthur & Lancelot, based on a script by David Dobkin that the studio bought for a couple million bucks last year. Dobkin, who directed Wedding Crashers and The Change-Up, will direct the film that is an action-oriented take on the classic Arthurian story, with a modern feel. The…
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It seems like just yesterday that Warner Bros. had deemed David Dobkin's Arthur & Lancelot too expensive to live. (In fact it was January.) The film, meant to be a big action-oriented take on the Arthurian legend, was taken off the studio's production schedule after budget concerns arose and attached actors Kit Harington and Joel…
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There's a lot going on at Warner Bros. right now. The studio has been looking closely at some planned tentpole films and deciding that they're not quite where execs want to put their money after all. So Akira has been put on hold, and David Dobkin's Arthur & Lancelot, which always seemed like a strange…
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Over the summer, Warner Bros. put David Dobkin's Arthur & Lancelot on the fast track at the expense of two other adaptations of the legend, but now it's looking like Dobkin's project may not come together at the studio, either. Though the picture's been moving at a brisk pace over the past few months, it's…
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Things are indeed shaping up quickly for David Dobkin's Arthur & Lancelot, which Warner Bros. fast-tracked over the summer at the cost of Bryan Singer's Excalibur remake and Guy Ritchie's King Arthur film. Last month saw the casting of Game of Thrones star Kit Harrington and The Killing star Joel Kinnaman in the two title…
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I've written about the film a couple times and yet I keep forgetting that Warner Bros. is making Arthur & Lancelot, a new take on the oft-filmed Arthurian legend. David Dobkin (Wedding Crashers, The Change-Up) wrote the script, which Warner Bros. bought and chose to film over several other competing takes on the Arthurian story.…
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As Garrett Hedlund continues his negotiations over the lead role of Kaneda in Warner Bros.' Akira remake, the studio and director Jaume Collet-Serra are wasting no time filling in the other roles as well. Buried in one report about Hedlund starring in the film was a tidbit about Keira Knightley being approached for the project.…
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Catherine Zeta-Jones has had a slow couple of years, but the Chicago actress stepping it up again. She recently wrapped three films -- Lay the Favorite, Playing the Field, and Rock of Ages, all of which are due out next year -- and has now landed one more. Zeta-Jones recently finalized a deal to star…
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Briefly: It is very possible that you'll read of Warner Bros.' enthusiasm for the David Dobkin script Arthur & Lancelot and give a shrug. We know little about the story, after all, other than the fact that it comes from the Wedding Crashers and The Change-Up director and is a contemporary retelling of the Arthurian…
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Warner Bros. has been on a tear in the past few days, buying material for new films and/or setting up screenwriters to develop projects for the studio. After the break, we've got info on the following three projects, each of which is quite a bit different from the others: The David Dobkin script Arthur &…
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