Guy Ritchie is the king of the franchise non-starter movie — and that's a good thing

Guy Ritchie is the king of the franchise non-starter movie — and that's a good thing

Mere weeks before the Dark Universe notoriously failed to launch with the 2017 release of Tom Cruise’s The Mummy, another announced franchise arguably face-planted even harder: Guy Ritchie’s King Arthur: Legend of the Sword. After all, The Mummy eked out $400 million worldwide based on Cruise’s star power, and though plans to go forward with a series of interconnected Universal Monster movies were scotched, those characters are powerful enough t…