Got a couple of Jude Law bits to share for you fans of the other JLaw and we’ll begin with Variety‘s report that the man that played Watson for director Guy Ritchie in the two Sherlock Holmes films is eying a return to star for the director in Knights of the Roundtable: King Arthur, the first of what is expected to be a franchise of films based on Arthur and his knights.
Charlie Hunnam (Pacific Rim, “Sons of Anarchy”) is already set to play Arthur with Astrid Berges-Frisbey (Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, I Origins) playing Guinevere and now Law is in negotiations to play the film’s villain, though specifics on who that may be have not been revealed, nor just how many films his contract may include. Meanwhile, Idris Elba, who was to play Arthur’s mentor, is no longer attached to the project.
The re-imagining of the Arthurian legend is set to hit theaters on July 22, 2016 and Joby Harold‘s script is said to have primarily been influenced by Thomas Mallory’s 1485 tales “Le Morte d’Arthur”.
Meanwhile, just a couple months from now, on January 23, Law will return to theaters in Black Sea for director Kevin Macdonald. The film finds Law as a rogue submarine captain who, after being laid off from a salvage company, pulls together a misfit crew to go after a sunken treasure rumored to be lost in the depths of the Black Sea. As greed and desperation take control on board their claustrophobic vessel, the increasing uncertainty of the mission causes the men to turn on each other to fight for their own survival.
A new clip from the movie has just arrived online, check it out below.
