Brian K. Vaughan’s Roundtable: Merlin Meets Ghostbusters?
In addition to writing comics, Brian K. Vaughan has been a member of the writing staff for Lost since last season, and is keeping himself extremely busy with a number of big screen projects as well. A couple weeks ago we reported that he had been hired to pen the script for a Runaways movie, and now he has sold another original script to Dreamworks. Does this guy ever take any time to sleep?
The spec script in question (which was reportedly the subject of a bidding war) is called Roundtable, and revolves around Merlin (yes, the mythical wizard of Arthurian Legend) coming to the modern day in order to combat an ancient evil. He attempts to recruit a team of knights to fight with him, but comes away disappointed when he finds that today’s “knights” are actually “washed-up athletes, cowardly scientists or Academy Award-winning actors”. I have to admit, this sounds a little bit like Just Visiting starring Jean Reno and Christina Applegate (not necessarily a good thing), but Vaughan has a knack for taking simple ideas and tweaking them just enough to turn them into something unique. Plus it’s being described as “more Ghostbusters than Excalibur“… I’m down with that. What do you think, does this sound like a cool idea, or are studios just tripping over themselves to grab any little scrap that Vaughan throws at them right now?
Comments (4)
Wow, another movie about a rag-tag team of misfits who must overcome their differences and learn to fight together…coming to realize at the end they were always knights…in their hearts…
snozzzzzzzzzz
No, who am I kidding, at this stage it all depends on the script and actors, direction, etc. Could be an awesome film.
As long as one of the knights in John Pinette.
Posted by Phil on June 5th, 2008Silly concept; but I generally trust Brian K. Vaughn. I’m still ticked about him not being attached to Y: The Last Man.
Posted by Ryan on June 5th, 2008I quite like the majority of the comics I’ve read by Vaughn, but he’s not a writer who I will follow blindly like I would, say Warren Ellis. Honestly, this idea sounds stupid to me, but I suppose it could be good. At this point all I’ll say is that I need to know more than that it’s about Merlin and it’s like Ghostbusters.
Posted by Rian on June 5th, 2008I was on board until the words “Merlin coming to the modern day.”
It just makes me think of “A Kid in King Arthur’s Court” or Martin Lawerence’s powerhouse epic “Black Knight.”
Posted by Jon Rocks on June 5th, 2008Leave a Reply