cinematical.com - 7/17/2008
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There is a real trend of King Arthur revisionism lately -- first there was Galahad , then Brian K. Vaughn's Roundtable , and now John Woo is taking a crack at it with Caliber . Variety reports that the rights to the series have been snatched up by Johnny Depp's Infinitum Nihil, Barry Levine's Radical Comics (also the book's publisher), and Woo's Lion Rock. Caliber sets King Arthur firmly ...
JOHN WOO PLANNING MORE STUPID CRAP —
FilmDrunk.com
The man behind Broken Arrow , Face/Off , Windtalkers , etc., is set to adapt a comic book series called Caliber . Caliber sets King Arthur firmly into the American Old West, which is rather fitting, since as a location it's nearly as mythical as Camelot [*fart sound* -Ed.]. Arthur is given Caliber, a tattooed six-shooter (how do you tattoo a gun?) given to him by the Native Americans. It's ...
John Woo's King Arthur Gunslinger story —
Filmstalker
Now that is the first thought that I had when I heard John Woo was directing a film based on the comic book Caliber which is about to appear at Comic-Con, that it sounds incredibly like the idea behind the Gunslingers in Stephen King's utterly amazing Dark Tower series. However it's not. It's a story unto itself which sees the mythology of King Arthur and his Knights portrayed as gunfighters ...
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