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Detail from Lambeth Palace Library MS 6, folio 43v, illustrating an episode in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia Regum Britanniae (c.1136) in which Vortigern meets the young Merlin, who explains that the underground fight between red and white dragons is causing his fortress to collapse
Disney’s ‘Sword in the Stone’ Live-Action Remake Finds Director
Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, perhaps best known for directing the zombie thriller 28 Weeks Later, is in negotiations to helm Sword in the Stone, the live-action reimagining of Disney’s 1963 animated fantasy.
Bryan Cogman, a writer-producer on HBO’s fantasy Game of Thrones, wrote the script for the project that is being produced by Brigham Taylor (The Jungle Book).
Stone was the final movie released before Walt Disney’s death and took a lighthearted and musical view of the legend of King Arthur, focusing on a young Arthur being mentored by the magician Merlin.
It was loosely based on the T.H. White’s novel of the same name, which later became part of White’s multi-book Arthurian fantasy The Once and Future King.
Stone is the second Arthurian project the studio is developing as its also working on The Merlin Saga. Ridley Scott is circling the tale of the rise of the powerful mage.
Louis Provost is overseeing Stone for the studio.
King Arthur and his men fought bravely.
Mary Macgregor, Stories of King Arthur’s Knights, illustrated by C. Walter Hodges (London: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, no date).
Mordred and Morgana scheming by Bortolussi
Arthurian Legends 