A Knight’s Story star Paul Bettany has defined that he can’t rewatch the 2001 medieval comedy on account of his late co-star, Heath Ledger. Serving as Ledger’s third worldwide manufacturing following 1999’s 10 Issues I Hate About You and 2000’s The Patriot, A Knight’s Story was a free comedic remodeling of the 14th-century story from Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales.
Bettany, who had primarily starred in British movie and tv productions up till that time, joined the A Knight’s Story’s forged alongside Ledger, Alan Tudyk, Mark Addy, Rufus Sewell and Shannyn Sossamon, as a destitute and debaucherous model of Chaucer himself.
Throughout a latest look at L.A. Comedian Con (through Individuals), Bettany was requested to recite a few of his character’s strains from the film, however the actor admitted that he was unable to recollect most of the movie’s strains. Suggesting it was “like one other lifetime in the past,” the Marvel star revealed that he had solely seen the film when it was launched.
Bettany additionally went on to clarify that there have been quite a few explanation why he has not watched A Knight’s Story since its launch, one in every of them being “that I miss Heath an excessive amount of.”
Sadly, Ledger would move away in January 2008, at a degree in his profession when he had begun to shed his earlier teen heartthrob standing and display the total vary of his dramatic prowess, in addition to start his steps towards turning into a director.
Having already been nominated for an Academy Award for Greatest Actor for 2005’s Brokeback Mountain, Ledger can be posthumously awarded the Oscar for Greatest Supporting Actor for his flip because the Joker in 2008’s The Darkish Knight.
Whereas A Knight’s Story would generate nowhere close to the quantity of crucial acclaim as a few of his later outings, it will nonetheless go on to generate a wholesome field workplace run of $117.5 million in opposition to an authentic price range of $65 million, and additional cement Leger’s speedy ascent from a little-known Australian actor to a serious Hollywood star.
Regardless of Bettany admitting to not having watched A Knight’s Story since its authentic launch, the star has beforehand pitched his personal thought for a sequel that he developed in live performance with Tudyk. Revolving primarily across the teenage daughter of Ledger’s William Thatcher, and her personal want to turn out to be a knight in a world which forbids it, the sequel would have seen her character search out her father’s authentic associates.
Nevertheless, regardless of director Brian Helgeland additionally pitching his personal sequel idea to Netflix, plans for a follow-up to the unique A Knight’s Story have by no means come to fruition. Maybe, very similar to Bettany’s insistence on avoiding rewatching the unique, the thought of returning to Ledger’s basic film can be an excessive amount of for followers nonetheless mourning his passing.
Supply: Individuals
- Launch Date
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Could 11, 2001
- Runtime
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133 minutes
- Director
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Brian Helgeland
- Writers
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Brian Helgeland
- Producers
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Tim Van Rellim