This is going to be incredibly bad, and I'll tell you why: the most interesting thing about the Arthurian legends is the women and every single adaptation bar Sam Neill's 1998 Merlin TV miniseries gets this wrong. ALLOW ME TO EXPLAIN:https://www.cbr.com/zack-snyder-developing-king-arthur-project/?fbclid=IwAR2sjCsgWspbNAFbEmrpb7qdzIYk5o2EV9pSKYbQqb14xYOmUMy5Q5KmEf8 …
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It's so much easier, isn't it, to paint Morgan le Fey as a scheming temptress than as a powerful, angry, hurting antihero whose mother was deceived and raped and denied justice; to see her trickery of Arthur as a purposeful mirror held up to Uther's actions.
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It's so much easier to see Guinevere as a faithless adulteress than to examine the ingrained misogyny that forbade her from choosing her husband in the first place, because you can't make Arthur the king of a golden age while admitting he was purposefully sexist.
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It's so much easier to write Nimue as a jealous, treacherous student who used her wiles against Merlin than to engage with their differences in age and power, Merlin's facilitation of the rape of Igrain; to grapple with a society that feared female power & denied them teaching.
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The 1998 TV adaptation is far from perfect, but it's the most compelling Arthurian version around precisely because it tries, so hard, to care about the women and to examine how their treatment doesn't fit with the narrative of a perfect golden age.
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And this is why Zack Snyder's version will be garbage: he does not write women. He very, very aggressively writes Male Stories: any Snyder-esque take on Arthur is doomed to failure before it starts, because I can already see him picturing Morgan le Fay in a sexy backless dress.
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Guinevere will be hot & scheming and maybe, just for a tiny pinch of variety, sad. There will be naked fucking that Arthur walks in on, and all the angst about the betrayal will focus on Lancelot's manpain, not Guinevere's autonomy. Igrain and Nimue likely won't be there at all.
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Anyway: Hollywood hire me to write a script/treatment of a queer feminist Arthurian story where the women have agency and the golden age is a myth; where the canonically Black knights show up (they exist!) and Galahad has a boyfriend, as he deserves.
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There was, on the heels of the Merlin miniseries mentioned upthread. It was, uh, on the choppy side but did have a charming and consensual threesome of A, G & L.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mists_of_Avalon_(miniseries) …
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This is why I am so furious that Naomi Mitchison's To the Chapel Perilous is so little known and so hard to get hold of, because it's about whose story and who tells the story (one of the viewpoints is a woman reporter writing up the events). It's one of her best books, as well.
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