Why is not anyone commenting that The Sword in the Stone is going to have a new adaptation?

You mean 2009, right?

I'm sure Disney will try to make Arthur a girl or something

That'd be because the movie is adapting the first book in a series. All the adventures Arthur has while being turned into animals have morals about ruling, which are echoed by his later experiences as a king. The entire movie is the setup to a punchline that doesn't come (and they leaned so hard in making the adventures cutesy while missing their greater point that it wouldn't have made sense anyway)

And she wasn't malicious either, just a squirrel doing what squirrels do.

... Yeah, this live action remake craze is stupid, but when it inevitably happens for this one, I want her to get bumped up to main character status. Like you said, the only parts of this movie that were worth a damn was her and Madam Mim.

>Fate/Stay Night: Disney Edition
I'm down.

The Wizard's Duel scene in the movie is absolutely fucking fantastic, but the problem is that Mim isn't introduced as an antagonist in the movie until that very scene, so it doesn't have much tension or weight. Even if they're just ominously mentioned Mim at the start of the movie to build her up, it would have worked better (like how Jungle Book spends 80% of its runtime talking Shere Khan up before he even appears).

Still a great piece of animation, though.

>Why does it seem so difficult to make good movies about King Arthur lore?

Because people appointed to direct them are either action/adventure directors turned into blockbuster shitters for the big suits or absolute idiots who think Middle Ages was exactly the same everywhere and don't know shit about the Arthurian cycle but, ironically, the Disney adaptation of The Sword in the Stone.

The day we get a sensible, non-adultered adaptation of King Arthur is not near, I'm afraid.

I'm honestly tired of the "live-action-adaptations-that-are-made-up-of-90%-CGI" fad. It's the same problem as capeshit; it has grown old already. But since any money matters and blockbusters sell a lot of merchandise too, nobody cares (and they haven't really cared in decades).

As long as they don’t make Lancelot black, that’s been done a couple times already.

Starring Finn Wolfhard as Wart

And insert random A list actor as Merlin I guess.

She behaves the way we want girls to behave
Her sad fate is exactly what we all experience

>so it doesn't have much tension or weight
It's a wizard's duel with Merlin. Everyone should know going in that Merlin will win. It's about the spectacle, not the tension.

Also, it had better have Hazel.

The Round table already has non-European characters, one of them fairly prominent (Palamedes). They historically tend to be whitewashed so you'd think they'd be eager for a return to form

The worst franchise Hollywood can try to adapt.

But if they succeed, it’ll be the definitive version.

Closest anyone has come is Disney’s Gargoyles after all.

>stealing ideas from Japan now
I get Disney is creatively bankrupt but come on man.

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>As long as they don’t make Lancelot black, that’s been done a couple times already.

Lancelot is French, user. No one will believe he's authentic unless he's black.

I’ll never get over the fact that Lancelot is nothing more than a French fanfic self insert character made to mock the English King Arthur.

As an American, I find it hilarious. It'd be like if we rewrote the Arthurian myth in 1975 to add a Knight of the Round Table named "Sir Texas" who shot everybody.

What's more hilarious is Arthur was a Welsh or Cornish guy embraced by the descendants of his enemies, the Anglo-Saxons

Um Yankee de Connecticut no King Arthur's Court?

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is an 1889 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The book was originally titled A Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Some early editions are titled A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur.

In the book, a Yankee engineer from Connecticut named Hank Morgan receives a severe blow to the head and is somehow transported in time and space to England during the reign of King Arthur. After some initial confusion and his capture by one of Arthur's knights, Hank realizes that he is actually in the past, and he uses his knowledge to make people believe that he is a powerful magician. He attempts to modernize the past in order to make people's lives better, but in the end he is unable to prevent the death of Arthur and an interdict against him by the Catholic Church of the time, which grows fearful of his power.

Since the beginning of the 20th century, this famous story has been adapted many times for the stage, feature-length motion pictures, and animated cartoons

>Lancelot beats Arthur up without even trying when they first meet
>Arthur thinks Lancelot is SO COOL he begs, BEGS him to join him on his quest
>Lancelot fucks Guinevere and cucks Arthur because his manliness is so irresistable

Honestly, realizing that Lancelot is the first example of a fanfick Gary Stu makes reading the French fanfic versions of The Man Who Would Be King even MORE entertaining. Or at the very least, it makes Excalibur more fun to watch.

Well fuck man, you out-literatured me good.

I thought Mark Twain stuff was obligatory reading?

>I thought Mark Twain stuff was obligatory reading?

The only Twain they made us read in school was Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer, which was weird, because those were the ones that had the N-word on every page.

Five words:
Big titty witch.

You're missing two words

The entire Matter of Britain is a mish mash that was built upon by authors from all over Europe. You were expected to add your own shit and have your own take on the characters. If you remove all the syncretistic elements and post-facto additions the entire myth, including Arthur himself, stops existing. It is extremely arbitrary to just decide that Lancelot is where you draw the line, especially when his presence is vital for the Grail Quest and the Arthur/Guinivere/Lancelot drama was THE most iconic love triangle in Western literature for centuries. It's on the same level of iconoclasm as bitching that writers added a fuckload of powers and completely different values to Superman and as such he no longer resembles the Golden Age character

>Why does it seem so difficult to make good movies about King Arthur lore?

Why do you think, goy?

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This, everyone needs to read it

I've given up on having anything King Arthur inspired done right whether it be live action movies or cartoons or video games etc. Why is this old ass story so damn hard to get right Yea Forums?

You know why.

*rubs hands semitically*

Its a weird timeline when Fate setting is one of the only ones that give it the respect it deserves.

will the sword be Caliburn or Excalibur?