Zack Snyder looks set to pull the sword from the franchise stone – but will it be another
Hollywood fart in the Arthurian mythos’s general direction?
It’s a popular lament in the comment section of this column that Hollywood remakes are to be viewed with scorn and derision. But film-makers surely have a right to try to deliver a truly definitive big-screen version of a famous myth, even if dozens before them have failed miserably.
If so, this bodes well for Zack Snyder, who reports this week suggest hopes to be the latest director to pull Excalibur from the stone and restore King Arthur to the multiplexes.