WB Resurrecting Arthur & Lancelot; Want "Star Power" - So They Cast Colin Farrell?

David Dobkin was supposed to start shooting Arthur & Lancelot this January. Warner Brother pulled the plug beforehand, citing costs. It turns out, per Variety, Jeff Robinov and his army of underling Yes-Men weren't crazy for writer/director Dobkin's casting choices for the title roles; Kit Harington of Game of Thrones and Joel Kinnaman (aka the new Robocop).

They wanted a star, the trades say, and now they're looking to grab one as Arthur & Lancelot, like the Lady in the Lake clutching the sword of Excalibur in her drenched, watery hands, has arisen again. So what big, bankable actor has the studio secured?

Colin Farrell.

Hey, Jeff, or whatever executive made this play, quick problem. Farrell is not, nor has he ever been, a star. Even during that period in the 00s where the press wouldn't shut up about his off-screen antics, partying with whatever flavor-of-the-moment beauty, guzzling whatever liquor in sight and snorting whatever drug in plain view, he was never a box-office draw. And of the films he appeared in that were successes, his participation had zilch to do with its profitability despite all the "He's the next big thing!" proclamation. Think Ryan Reynolds, only Irish and a much better actor.

From the sounds of it, he'd play Lancelot, and that's fine all things considered. But again by this "star" logic (If logic is the term you'd prefer use), then you're an idiot thinking Farrell will secure asses in seats, given his track record, when his salary would be substantially higher than either Harington or Kinnaman and at least you'd spend less money on them and put it towards the movie and/or marketing it. Its thinking like this cements what dumbasses run the studios.