King Arthur hasn’t had a particularly easy ride at the cinema recently, but The Kid Who Would Be King is here to put his crown back on.
The film will mark Joe Cornish’s second directorial effort after 2011’s Attack The Block, so expectations have been building for the last seven years to see what he does next.
Pitched as a family fantasy action-adventure, the film stars 14-year-old newcomer Ashbourne Serkis (son of Andy) as a regular modern-day kid who finds Excalibur in a building site and inadvertently summons an army of Medieval demons, led by Rebecca Ferguson’s witch queen, Morgana.
The first trailer has arrived and it looks like everything a King Arthur movie should be – mixing Harry Potter-style kid magic, genuinely funny jokes and a whole lot of fantasy action involving dragons, big battle scenes and moving trees. If nothing else, it looks a lot better than Guy Ritchie’s King Arthur…
The film also stars Patrick Stewart as Merlin (or one version of Merlin, according to the trailer), but the real hero looks to be Serkis, who already seems to be doing a great job of not acting like most other British child stars.
Find out for sure when the film opens on February 15th, 2019.
