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    Bryan Singer teams up with King Arthur for Excalibur remake

    Bryan Singer has closed a deal to produce and potentially direct a remake of the 1981 fantasy flick Excalibur for Warner Bros., Variety reported. Excalibur is the quintessential myth-of-King-Arthur film, complete with the enchanted sword, the Knights of the Round Table, Merlyn the wizard and the quest for the Holy Grail to save Arthur's life.

    The original film was directed by John Boorman and adapted from the Thomas Malory book by Rospo Pallenberg and Boorman. WB and Legendary Pictures labored for months to pull together the rights to the film, which Singer will produce with Julie Yorn. Polly Johnsen, who was Polly Cohen when she was the WB exec who presided over the Singer-directed WB/Legendary collaboration Superman Returns, will also be a producer.

    Boorman's film featured such stars as Helen Mirren (who played the evil Morgana) and Liam Neeson (Sir Gawain), as well as Gabriel Byrne and Patrick Stewart. WB had some of the rights as a library title; the rest were secured from Boorman.

    Singer hasn't set a writer yet

    http://scifiwire.com/2009/08/bryan-singer-excalibur.php

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    A other week and a other remake surprise surprise not.

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      #3
      Originally posted by knowles2 View Post
      A other week and a other remake surprise surprise not.
      As long as they are actually good, I can live with them. It is the ones that stink that I can't stand.
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        #4
        Originally posted by the fifth man View Post
        As long as they are actually good, I can live with them. It is the ones that stink that I can't stand.
        Problem is 90% of these god damn remakes/reboots/reimages stink to high heaven. I can absolutely guarantee that they will make a worse "The Thing", sorry RDM is not John Carpenter. Anyone remember that wretched remake of the Fog? Think about how many of these remakes we have had in the past few years, you know the ones that we have already forgotten! I am really trying hard right now to think of a remake I found better than the original, and simply can not think of one. Well, Casino Royale was better than David Niven's version lol.

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          #5
          Why do remakes when you got awesome films such district 9, Moon and what looks awesome Avatar, when you got talent like that, that can produce excellent original films, often on just a fractions of what a remake gets, it just seem a wast that Hollywoods spend money on remakes and what even worst is when the film is just bad or where is clear the script was either rush or someone somewhere felt the need to remove all sense of a good story from a script for example the day the earth stood still which was an absolute full of wasted potential.

          If you want to do remakes bring in some descent writing talent in to do it an make sure it can at least match the original film.

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