Success on Netflix: Subscribers Give This Movie a Chance, Dismal Box Office Failure

Netflix subscribers give colossal box office flop a chance: Guy Ritchie’s King Arthur: The Legend of Excalibur. Directed by Charlie Hunnam, this film was supposed to be the first episode in a saga of several feature films, but it was such a flop that the project was thrown into the trash.

After his mother and father were killed by the traitorous Vortigern in order to monopolize the throne, young Arthur Pendragon fled. Taken in by prostitutes, he grows up to become a gang leader in the slums of Londinium. When he learns that a sword stuck in a rock will make whoever retrieves it king of Britain, Arthur tries his luck. He manages to pull the knife out, but loses it before the strength follows.

Arthur’s parents are played by Eric Bana and Poppy Delevingne. Jude Law plays Uther Pendragon’s brother Vortigern, and the witch sent by Merlin features Astrid Berges-Frisbey. Starring Aidan Gillen and Djimon Hounsou.

All these beautiful people signed up for an adventure in six films that told the story of Arthur’s life from childhood to death. Except that filming starts with an unfinished script and post-production (especially editing) is very difficult. Guy Ritchie signed on for the film with an estimated runtime of 3 hours to 3:30 hours, and under pressure from the studio, had to settle for a maximum of 2 hours for the finished product.

The result exhausted both the press and the public, and the film didn’t even recoup its budget (estimated at $175 million) by collecting only $148.6 million at the worldwide box office. slap on all levels.

Today, thanks to Netflix, new audiences are discovering the film, and 2017’s die-hard audiences are giving it a chance, placing it among the platform’s weekly hits. Guy Ritchie can thank the subscribers!