Instead of plunging audiences back into a period adventure – as Guy Ritchie recently did with Charlie Hunnam in King Arthur: Legend of the Sword – Cornish sets his action in a contemporary setting, casting young Louis Ashbourne Serkis as a descendent of Arthur who finds Excalibur, then has to assemble a new band of modern knights.
Joe Cornish brings the mythology of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table back to big screens this weekend, but does it in a very clever fashion.