{"id":68518,"date":"2014-11-17T11:16:15","date_gmt":"2014-11-17T11:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=68518"},"modified":"2014-11-17T11:17:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T11:17:00","slug":"guy-ritchies-king-arthur-lines-up-sherlock-homes-star-as-villain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/guy-ritchies-king-arthur-lines-up-sherlock-homes-star-as-villain\/","title":{"rendered":"Guy Ritchie&#8217;s King Arthur wants Sherlock Homes star as villain"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_68519\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-68519\" style=\"width: 616px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/HolyGrail.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-68519\" alt=\"The Knights Of The Round Table as seen in Monty Python's Holy Grail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/HolyGrail.jpg\" width=\"616\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/HolyGrail.jpg 616w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/HolyGrail-300x166.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-68519\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Knights Of The Round Table as seen in Monty Python And The Holy Grail<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Guy Ritchie&#8217;s <strong><em>Knights Of The Roundtable<\/em><\/strong> is lining up <strong><em>Sherlock Holmes<\/em><\/strong> star Jude Law to play the villain.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_68520\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-68520\" style=\"width: 616px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Jude-Law-Sherlock-Holmes.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-68520\" alt=\"Jude Law in Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Jude-Law-Sherlock-Holmes.jpg\" width=\"616\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Jude-Law-Sherlock-Holmes.jpg 616w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Jude-Law-Sherlock-Holmes-300x161.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-68520\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jude Law in Guy Ritchie&#8217;s Sherlock Holmes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/2014\/film\/news\/jude-law-knights-of-the-round-table-guy-ritchie-1201338474\/\">Variety<\/a> reports that Law, who worked with Ritchie on both Holmes movies, is in negotiations for an unnamed baddie role in the movie which Warner Bros hopes will kickstart a new franchise.<\/p>\n<p>If he signs on, he&#8217;ll join Charlie Hunnam as Arthur and \u00c0strid Berg\u00e8s-Frisbey\u00a0(recently seen in <strong><em>I Origins<\/em><\/strong>) as Guinevere. Sadly, it looks like Idris Elba won&#8217;t be playing that mentor role he was rumoured for. Shame, he would have been a brilliant Merlin.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Knights Of The Roundtable<\/em> is set for release in cinemas on 22 July 2016. Keep up with the latest genre news with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imagineshop.co.uk\/magazines\/scifinow\/scifinow-issue-99.html\">the new issue of SciFiNow<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Knights Of The Roundtable drafts in one of Guy Ritchie&#8217;s regulars for the villain role<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":68519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,3],"tags":[381,1331,4173],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/HolyGrail.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68518"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}