Lancelot: Knight of the Round Table, gallant warrior, shagger of his best friend's missus. And now he's the subject of a new film, called Man At Arms and set after the fall of Camelot, based on a script by Jeremy Lott.
For those who haven't read Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur in a while, the end of King Arthur's life saw him discover that BFF Lancelot had been at it with Guinevere, leading to a schism between the two which allowed bad seed Mordred to usurp Arthur's throne and go to war against his King. Arthur is mortally wounded killing Mordred and carried off on a barge by the Lady of the Lake, and Guinevere and Lancelot both take holy orders and die in their respective convent and monastery.
Or did they? We're guessing that this script, called as it is Man of Arms, probably doesn't take place with the lead character praying every four hours. And anyway, Malory's only one source, and others have lots more juicy bits. The big question in most Arthurian tales these days is whether there'll be magic or not.
Lott's script has been floating about Hollywood for some time, and got him a job adapting IDW comic Lore, but now this one's been picked up by Echo Lake (The Joneses, John Carpenter's upcoming The Ward) with Bruck's Entertainment and Aperture Entertainment.
So what do you think? Is the world ready for a new Lancelot?