McHollywood is capable, with it's international casts and crews, of making some incredible films, but current trends are for pathetic, pale remakes and now all-female casts. Pandering at it's worst.
A remake of this classic, admittedly with errors and flaws, not least the inexplicable continuity errors (Gawain and Llancelot's duel scen which jumps), would most likely be cheap and stupid.
Who is doing a remake? There is a King Arthur film being made by Guy Ritchie but it is an entirely different interpretation of the Mallory source material. It's not a remake of "Excalibur".
sharejoel schumacher has already somewhat remade this film by putting nipple-armor into his Batman films. I'm surprised that he didn't direct this film as well, given both directors' strange creepy love for nipple-armor. The odds of two different directors both being that weird seem low.
shareThen again, the use of nipple armor in film may very well have nothing to do with some weird director fetish, but rather with the costuming department's knowledge and taste for ancient armor which do include quite a number of stylized representations of nipples and pecs. Looking to the past, to history and archaeology, to draw inspiration in making a movie, is not isolated incident; it is, on the contrary, pretty common.
See a Celtic example of "nipple armour" here:
http://musee-archeologienationale.fr/?q=objet/cuirasse-de-marmesse
"Occasionally I'm callous and strange."
....and you are free to not watch it.
I don't love her.. She kicked me in the face!!
There was a time when a classic movie having one or two flaws just meant it had one or two flaws. That's wasn't an excuse to shit all over it by making a mediocre remake with modern social mores polluting the spirit of the original.
shareI definitely vote for no remake. Has their ever been a film about the tale of Arthur as great as Excalibur?
shareNot that I know of.
shareI really enjoyed The Green Knight, although it's very, very different from Excalibur. Excalibur is focused on Arthur and follows the legends closely. The Green Knight plays looser with the details, follows Gawain (naturally), and is more of a personal story in an arthouse vein. Excalibur has the epic sweep.
So, it's hard to pick a favourite, but I really do love The Green Knight for what it is, just as I enjoy Excalibur for it's contribution.
I’ll be looking it up. 👍
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