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Geek Peek: Charlie Hunnam In ‘Knights Of The Round Table: King Arthur’
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Guy Ritchie was unable to promote The Man From U.N.C.L.E. at San Diego Comic-Con this year because he was preoccupied with filming Knights of the Round Table: King Arthur. While the latter film won’t hit theaters until next Summer, EW has released 10 new images of Sons of Anarchy star Charlie Hunnam as the title king wielding the legendary sword Excalibur.

Check out the images plus a few quotes from the actor on set here below.

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First Trailer For Guy Ritchie’s ‘The Man From U.N.C.L.E.’ Starring Henry Cavill, Armie Hammer
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The first trailer for Snatch and Sherlock Holmes director Guy Ritchie‘s new movie The Man from U.N.C.L.E. has been released online by Warner Brothers Pictures.

The movie is an adaptation of the hit ’60s TV series of the same name, and stars Henry Cavill (Man of Steel, The Tudors), Armie Hammer (The Lone Ranger, The Social Network), Alicia Vikander (Seventh Son, A Royal Affair), Jared Harris (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows), Elizabeth Debicki (A Few Best Men, The Great Gatsby), and Hugh Grant (Notting Hill, Love Actually).

You can read a full synopsis and watch the first trailer below.

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‘Treasure Island’ To Get The ‘Sherlock Holmes’ Treatment
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In February we found out that producer Lionel Wigram was behind a new take on the tale of the Three Musketeers would be coming to theaters using the same methods used to successfully reinvent Sherlock Holmes with Guy Ritchie, Robert Downey Jr., and Jude Law.

Now comes word that Wigram isn’t stopping there — the producer is now developing a re-imagining of the classic Robert Louis Stevenson novel Treasure Island for Warner Brothers. The story has seen a ton of film adaptations over the years, including in 1950 with Robert Newton and Bobby Driscoll, and in 1990 with Charlton Heston and Christian Bale.

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‘Three Musketeers’ Movie Gets Writer; Will Use ‘Sherlock Holmes’ Strategy
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Back in June of 2008, we discovered that a new movie was being developed based on the 1844 Alexandre Dumas classic, The Three Musketeers. At the time, not too much was known about the project, and as you can tell, it has been a while since any updates have been offered.

Now, with the title set up and cozy at Warner Brothers, it looks like things are about to set sail. The studio has Producer Lionel Wigram in place, and Peter Straughan has been hired to write the screenplay.

Wigram has done a lot of work with Warner Bros. over the years; he’s had a big hand in the success of the Harry Potter franchise, and was a producer on both Order of the Phoenix and Half-Blood Prince. He was also a writer and producer on Guy Ritchie’s new take on Sherlock Holmes, which is crucial because that’s exactly where they want to go with this new Three Musketeers adventure. The hopes and plans are to make it fun and exciting to appeal to younger audiences, and to hopefully score another big franchise out of it.

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SDCC 09: ‘Sherlock Holmes’ Panel
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No one can deny that Robert Downey Jr was the hit of Hall H at the San Diego Comic-Con last weekend at both the Iron Man 2 panel and the one for the Warner Bros. upcoming reboot Sherlock Holmes, directed by Guy Ritchie.

Check out the images from the panel, as well as a description of the new footage shown here below.

Foregoing the usual introduction by the moderator, Downey strut onto the stage unannounced, a most pleasant entrance for the audience, and began to explain the Sherlock Holmes character, created 122 years ago by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Downey explained the Holmes was actually the first superhero and an intellectual one at that, and has grown to become most of the most recognizable figures on Earth.

Downey was joined on the panel by producers Joel Silver and Susan Downey (also Robert Downey’s wife), producer/co-writer Lionel Wigram (who created the comic book spec for the film), and Downey’s co-star Rachel McAdams, who plays Irene Alder, Holmes’ love interest and the only women to ever bested the detective.

The panelists made it clear that while making the film, whenever they were in doubt about a situation, they would always go back to Doyle’s source material to see what Doyle said the characters said and how the characters described one another.

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