Blame the film’s $175 million production budget, as well as its unreported marketing expenses, as the $134 million international take couldn’t even cover the production alone.
If we’re going to talk about failed franchises, where’s a better place to start than King Arthur: Legend of the Sword?
Guy Ritchie just doesn’t seem to be able to catch a break, as The Man From U.N.C.L.E. also failed to launch a sequel of its own, though on a smaller scale.
With six films planned to adapt this fixture of English literature, the first film pretty much killed all hopes of such a cinematic universe faster than you could say, “Merlin.”