Guy Ritchie’s Forgotten Medieval Fantasy Is Officially Being Removed From Free Streaming


Who knew that Guy Ritchie‘s numerous attempts to launch a franchise would only succeed when he pivoted to streaming television? Years before he became known for Netflix’s The Gentlemen, the Paramount+ series MobLand, and Prime Video’s Young Sherlock, Ritchie made around half a dozen attempts to kick-start a theatrical franchise. Most ambitiously, he directed a mega-budget fantasy epic that was designed to spawn at least four sequels, which would culminate with an Avengers-style team-up movie. However, the first film tanked horribly upon release, ending all future plans. The movie in question is currently streaming for free in the United States, but only for a little while longer.

It was originally released in theaters in 2017, not long after Ritchie had made a successful transition to big-budget franchise filmmaking with Sherlock Holmes and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. Ritchie’s earlier efforts to create a franchise with the 2008 movie RocknRolla hadn’t taken off, and his 2015 spy thriller The Man from U.N.C.L.E. failed to spawn a sequel as well. Since then, Ritchie has shown franchise ambitions with movies such as Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre, Aladdin, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, Fountain of Youth, and more recently, In the Grey.



















Collider Exclusive · Game of Thrones Personality Quiz
Which Game of Thrones House Do You Belong To?
Stark · Lannister · Targaryen · Baratheon · Tyrell

Five great houses. Five completely different answers to the same question: how do you hold power in a world that will take it from you the moment you stop paying attention? Eight questions will determine where your loyalties — and your nature — truly lie.

🐺Stark

🦁Lannister

🐉Targaryen

🦌Baratheon

🌹Tyrell

01

Someone powerful is acting dishonourably and everyone knows it. What do you do?
In Westeros, the answer to this question has ended more than one great house.





02

What is the source of your power?
Every house endures because of something. What is it for yours?





03

Who do you truly fight for?
Strip away the banners and the words. The honest answer tells you everything.





04

How do you deal with your enemies?
A house’s method reveals its character as clearly as its words ever could.





05

What kind of ruler do you believe in?
Westeros is full of answers to this question. Most of them end badly.





06

You suffer a devastating loss. How does your house respond?
How a house handles defeat tells you more about it than how it handles victory.





07

Which of these truths about Westeros do you most believe?
Every house has a philosophy. This is yours.





08

The Iron Throne is within reach. What do you do?
The answer reveals not just your ambition — but your character.





The Maester Has Spoken
Your House Is…

Your answers point to the great house whose words, values, and way of surviving in Westeros match your own. Bend the knee — or don’t. That’s very much up to you.


Winterfell · The North

🐺 House Stark

Winter is Coming — and you have always known it. You prepare not out of fear but out of duty, because the people who depend on you deserve someone who takes the long view.

  • You lead with honour even when it costs you, because you understand that a reputation built on integrity is the only one worth having.
  • Your loyalty to family and people runs deep — not as sentiment but as a code that doesn’t bend when things get difficult.
  • The North endures because Starks endure — not by being the cleverest players in the game, but by being the kind of people others are willing to follow into the cold.
  • You are that kind of person. The pack survives. The lone wolf dies. You already know which one you are.


Casterly Rock · The Westerlands

🦁 House Lannister

You understand the game — its rules, its exceptions, and exactly when the rules become the exception. You play it without illusions and without apology.

  • You are sharper than most people realise, and you have learned to use that gap to your advantage.
  • A Lannister always pays their debts — and you always keep your word, because your word is an instrument of power, and instruments must be kept in working order.
  • You love your family with a ferocity that sometimes blinds you, and you know it, and you do it anyway.
  • The lion doesn’t concern itself with the opinion of sheep. Neither, in the end, do you.


Dragonstone · The Iron Throne

🐉 House Targaryen

You carry a sense of destiny that is difficult to explain and impossible to ignore — the feeling that you are not simply participating in the world but meant to reshape it.

  • You are capable of extraordinary things, and you know it, and that knowledge is both your greatest strength and your most dangerous quality.
  • Fire and blood are not just words to you — they are a philosophy about what change requires and what it costs.
  • The Targaryens at their best were transformative rulers who broke chains and defied the limits of what anyone thought possible.
  • At your best, so are you. The dragon has three heads. You are one of them.


Storm’s End · The Stormlands

🦌 House Baratheon

You are a force — direct, powerful, and difficult to ignore when you enter a room or a conflict. You do not negotiate with challenges. You meet them.

  • Ours is the fury — and yours is a kind of intensity that commands attention, respect, and occasionally fear from those who underestimate what’s behind it.
  • You value strength and straight dealing. You’d rather know where you stand in a fight than navigate a web of courtly whispers.
  • The Baratheons built their house on the back of one of the greatest military victories in Westerosi history — and then struggled with what came after.
  • The lesson of your house is that winning is not the end of the story. Governing is. You are learning that too.


Highgarden · The Reach

🌹 House Tyrell

You understand that power does not always announce itself — that sometimes it arrives with flowers, good wine, and a smile that doesn’t quite reach the eyes.

  • Growing strong is your house’s motto, and you live it: patiently, strategically, always investing in the relationships and resources that will matter most when it counts.
  • You are charming by choice and calculating by nature — a combination that makes you one of the most effective players in any room you enter.
  • The Tyrells fed King’s Landing and shaped its politics without ever sitting on the Iron Throne — and they were arguably more powerful for it.
  • You know that the person who controls the food controls the kingdom. And you always know where the food is.

Here’s How Long You Have Left to Watch the Fantasy Epic for Free

But we’re talking about King Arthur: Legend of the Sword. Produced on a reported budget of $175 million, the movie grossed less than $150 million worldwide. It starred Charlie Hunnam in the titular role, with Jude Law, Eric Bana, Djimon Hounsou, and Aiden Gillen in supporting roles. The plan was for King Arthur to be followed by individual movies focusing on other Knights of the Round Table, which would all lead toward a team-up movie. In addition to its poor box-office performance, King Arthur also received unenthusiastic reviews. It now holds a 31% score on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, where the consensus reads, “King Arthur: Legend of the Sword piles mounds of modern action flash on an age-old tale — and wipes out much of what made it a classic story in the first place.” You can watch the film on Tubi in the United States until November 1. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.


King Arthur Legend of the Sword Movie Poster


Release Date

May 12, 2017

Runtime

126 Minutes


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