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The Kid Who Would Be King
Directed by Joe Cornish
Old-school magic meets the modern world when young Alex stumbles upon the mythical sword Excalibur. He soon unites his friends and enemies, and they become knights who join forces with the legendary wizard Merlin. Together, they must save mankind from the wicked enchantress Morgana and her army of supernatural warriors. From TMDB
95 reactions from 3 sources (Bluesky, TMDB reviews, Mastodon) · newest Oct 30, 2026 · last updated Oct 31, 2026 · How this works
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The Kid Who Would Be King is a 2019 action adventure fantasy film, directed by Joe Cornish, starring Louis Ashbourne Serkis, Dean Chaumoo and Tom Taylor.
- 49 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, TMDB reviews, Mastodon
- posts span Jun 10, 2019 to Oct 30, 2026
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60 of 95 · most liked first"The Kid Who Would Be King" is on FXX and I still think if I were British and a child in 2019 this movie would've been my entire personality the rest of my life
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neutral · AI labelView post →PSA for UK folks: Joe Cornish’s The Kid Who Would Be King (2019) is just starting on C4, a charming Arthurian fantasy family adventure that deserved way more attention than it got.
neutral · AI labelView post →*(P.S. if I'm writing this, and I would: Set it in the 70s, tie it to the "satanic panic" weirdos going after the game and make it vaguely 'spooky.' Not an R but a big-kids PG13. "Monster Squad" meets "The Kid Who Would Be King.")
neutral · AI labelView post →As we slide down into 2025, we leave the old year on a high note with Excalibur, which combines the best parts of Camelot, Army Of Darkness, Slave Girls Of Morgan La Fey, and The Kid Who Would Be King (in that it has Patrick Stewart), all our favorites. It has the best Merlin and 2 dogs as well.
neutral · AI labelView post →whenever your players say "my spell only has somatic components i should be able to cast them undetected" stop your session and make them watch The Kid Who Would Be King
neutral · AI labelView post →Brits, excellent Arthurian update The Kid Who Would Be King is on E4 in 25 minutes. Great family fun.
neutral · AI labelView post →Daughter saw a clip from The Kid Who Would Be King and asked to watch it. So we're checking it out now for the first time. Didn't realize that Joe Cornish directed this and Rebecca Ferguson plays Morgana!
neutral · AI labelView post →This week’s Sunday night movie is a rewatch of The Kid Who Would Be King.
neutral · AI labelView post →Got The Kid Who Would Be King on, completely forgot that Denise Gough and Genevieve O’Reilly are in it. A double Andor.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Kid Who Would Be King is a fun recent kids movie that didn't get the audience it deserved. Lucy Holland's Sistersong skirts arthuriana and is a dark and intriguing story. Wolfe's Wizard Knight is about knighthood and high ideals and shining armour and definitely sits on the same space.
positive · AI labelView post →I wish Joe Cornish would take a tip at Doctor Who. Between Attack The Block and The Kid Who Would Be King he’s covered the gamut of Who’s range.
neutral · AI labelView post →Within a millisecond of THAT guy turning up on screen in The Bone Temple, I thought "that's the Serkis kid" He could NOT look more like his Dad. Also check out The Kid Who Would Be King if you haven't!
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neutral · AI labelView post →also you should just watch The Kid Who Would Be King in general, it's a very fun take on King Arthur and Merlin. It's made by the guy who made 2011's Attack The Block, which was the first movie John Boyega starred in
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neutral · AI labelView post →Rebecca Ferguson | ‘The Kid Who Would Be King' Premiere | London, England | 2019
neutral · AI labelView post →Rewatched The Kid Who Would Be King and it really is a great family film. I like its take on the Arthurian legend and Angus Imrie steals the show as Merlin. If the gap between Attack the Block and this is anything to go by we’ve got another 2 years before a new Joe Cornish film unfortunately.
positive · AI labelView post →Daughter is watching The Kid Who Would Be King. Such a great little movie. Joe Cornish knows how to direct fun adventures!
positive · AI labelView post →Rebecca Ferguson | ‘The Kid Who Would Be King" Premiere | London, England | 2019
neutral · AI labelView post →@ukparliament.parliament.uk @houseofcommons.parliament.uk “A Land Is Only As Good As Its Leaders”: The Kid Who Would Be King #Morality #Leadership #Honour thegownatqub.wordpress.com/2019/02/19/a...
neutral · AI labelView post →The movie called The Kid Who Would Be King. Said kid had no magical lineage. He was not biologically royalty. He was simply pure of heart. I like that.
positive · AI labelView post →Same! I mean it helped that I rewatched (and still very much enjoyed) The Kid Who Would Be King a couple of months ago but I was like it *must* be him as soon as he appeared.
positive · AI labelView post →This plucky newcomer is in a film on TV right now, The Kid Who Would Be King (there with other unknown, Mark Bonnar). I'm a bit behind on viewing, but I saw him in Slow Horses on Thursday, caught up on The Traitors last night and he's here again. Maybe The Martian will be on tomorrow?
neutral · AI labelView post →A few of my picks: Aisling Bea - I would give her a masculine dress sense and not realise how good looking she is Siobhan McSweeney - mainly because of her role as Sister Michael in Derry Girls Angus Imire - due to his performance in The Kid Who Would Be King Benedict Wong - my longshot candidate
neutral · AI labelView post →Give "The Kid Who Would Be King" (2019) a try. It got buried because of COVID, but it's a terrific little throwback 80s movie out of England. youtu.be/OWwVD1xdAX4
positive · AI labelView post →See also The Kid Who Would Be King. I saw her on stage last year in People, Places and Things as a young woman in a residential clinic for substance abuse and she was amazing in that.
neutral · AI labelView post →Watched "The Kid Who Would Be King" today. Fun update of the King Arthur legend, good choice to watch with a 9 year old on a rainy afternoon. Rebecca Ferguson (Jessica in Dune) is great as Morgana. 😀 The line about Britain being divided and badly led was timely in 2019, and even more so now. 😉
positive · AI labelView post →If I may: My Top Films of 2019: 1. A Hidden Life 2. High Life 3. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood 4. The Kid Who Would Be King 5. The Irishman 6. Waves 7. Parasite 8. It’s a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood 9. Alita: Battle Angel 10. Transit
positive · AI labelView post →Watching the Kid Who Would Be King is like watching some weird multiversal version of Andor It's trippy.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Kid Who Would Be King had Rebecca Ferguson as Morgan le Fay, an excellent role for her. Well acted all around and the story was ok but just not remarkable.
neutral · AI labelView post →I need to watch The Kid Who Would Be King because I suspect Joe Cornish makes amazing movies that never make money when he gets the chance.
neutral · AI labelView post →He’s also delightful in The Kid Who Would Be King.
positive · AI labelView post →@ukparliament.parliament.uk @houseofcommons.parliament.uk @churchofengland.org “A Land Is Only As Good As Its Leaders”: The Kid Who Would Be King #Morality #Leadership #Honour thegownatqub.wordpress.com/2019/02/19/a...
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm sad more people didn't see The Kid Who Would Be King.
positive · AI labelView post →I think you might also like The Kid Who Would Be King.
neutral · AI labelView post →Don't think we've had a live action family film that's felt like this since The Kid Who Would Be King
positive · AI labelView post →I've maintained a list on Letterboxd of every movie I've shown at least one of my kids (14 and 16). Some they enjoyed at that age: Pee-wee's Big Adventure Song of the Sea Coraline Addams Family Values Paddington 2 Newsies The Kid Who Would Be King What About Bob? The House With a Clock in Its Walls
neutral · AI labelView post →@telegraph.co.uk @thetimes.com Hand Magic (The Kid Who Would Be King) Mudras ‘A mudra Sanskrit: मुद्रा, IAST: mudrā, "seal", "mark", or "gesture"; is a symbolic or ritual gesture or pose in Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism.’ #Buddhism #Hinduism #Mudras #Kundalini en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mudra
neutral · AI labelView post →@telegraph.co.uk @thetimes.com “A Land Is Only As Good As Its Leaders”: The Kid Who Would Be King #Morality #Leadership #Honour thegownatqub.wordpress.com/2019/02/19/a...
neutral · AI labelView post →The (movie) The Kid Who Would Be King 4K (iTunes)(US) $4.99 (Family) (iMDB) 6.6 Cast: Louis Ashbourne Serkis, Tom Taylor (L), Dean Chaumoo, Rhianna Dorris, Angus Imrie, Denise Gough
neutral · AI labelView post →Joe Cornish, the director, did "The Kid Who Would Be King" and it's one of those movies that has no right being as good as it is. youtu.be/TADKiHYj6RE?...
positive · AI labelView post →This also reminds me that everyone needs to watch The Kid Who Would Be King, aka Angus Imrie’s 2-hour audition tape to play The Doctor someday: youtu.be/xF4zYVYxoRM?...
positive · AI labelView post →This is a good list that I had fun arguing with. At first glance, I would've gone with MUPPETS MOST WANTED over THE MUPPETS, and I would've found a spot for Joe Cornish's THE KID WHO WOULD BE KING. Anything to knock those HARRY POTTER adaptations off the list. They don't do a thing for me. Sorry!
positive · AI labelView post →The Son Of Man (The Kid Who Would Be King) #ArtisticInspiration #Revelation #Synchronicity #Parouisa #TheNewJerusalem #Jesus en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_...
neutral · AI labelView post →“A Land Is Only As Good As Its Leaders”: The Kid Who Would Be King #Morality #Leadership #Honour thegownatqub.wordpress.com/2019/02/19/a...
neutral · AI labelView post →Angus Imrie, who was in Joe's movie The Kid Who Would Be King, would also be a good Doctor, I reckon.
neutral · AI labelView post →yessss Freddie! i have never seen a film that leaves me with such hope like this one does. it is a gift of a film that got wrongly shit on. plus 8yo me would've had this and The Kid Who Would Be King as their favorite films (if, you know, they came out over thirty years ago lol).
positive · AI labelView post →The Son Of Man (The Kid Who Would Be King) #ArtisticInspiration #Revelation #Synchronicity #Parouisa #TheNewJerusalem #Jesus en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_...
neutral · AI labelView post →I’ll die on the hill of ‘Camelot’, ‘Excalibur’, and ‘Merlin’ with Sam Neill. I am grandma. ‘The Kid Who Would Be King’ and ‘The Sorcerer’s Apprentices’ are fun ones too, but with bugger all to do with Arthur.
positive · AI labelView post →Meta-medieval: The Kid Who Would Be King
neutral · AI labelView post →Had the pleasure of speaking to both, but it was around Joe's film The Kid Who Would Be King (good btw) but obviously had to be professional not go "STEPHEN!"
positive · AI labelView post →They still exist, but you have to look outside Disney and Marvel. Examples I've watched with my kid: The Lego Movie (2014), The Kid Who Would Be King (2019), The Mitchells vs. the Machines (2021), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2023), and (surprisingly) Super Mario Bros. (2023).
neutral · AI labelView post →Next rewatch flick in honor of Sir Patrick is The Kid Who Would Be King! It's a fun flick! Sucks it doesn't get the love it should! Solid modern flip on the legend! youtu.be/IQ4yWU55qds?...
positive · AI labelView post →#TheGlassBeadGame The Kid Who Would Be King @ukparliament.parliament.uk @houseofcommons.parliament.uk @churchofengland.org
neutral · AI labelView post →@ukparliament.parliament.uk @houseofcommons.parliament.uk @churchofengland.org The Kid Who Would Be King (Official Trailer) #Movies #TheParablesOfJesus #TheSecondComing #Kundalini #Kingship youtu.be/TADKiHYj6RE?...
neutral · AI labelView post →@ukparliament.parliament.uk @houseofcommons.parliament.uk @churchofengland.org #TheParablesOfSirius The Kid Who Would Be King (Official Trailer) #Jesus #TheSecondComing #TheArthurianLegends #Kundalini #Kingship youtu.be/TADKiHYj6RE?...
neutral · AI labelView post →@ukparliament.parliament.uk @houseofcommons.parliament.uk @churchofengland.org The Kid Who Would Be King #TheFullnessOfTimes #TheOmegaPoint #TheNewEarth en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kid...
neutral · AI labelView post →@ukparliament.parliament.uk @houseofcommons.parliament.uk @churchofengland.org The Son Of Man (The Kid Who Would Be King) #ArtisticInspiration #Revelation #Synchronicity #Parouisa #TheNewJerusalem #Jesus en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_...
neutral · AI labelView post →@ukparliament.parliament.uk @houseofcommons.parliament.uk @churchofengland.org #TheParablesOfSirius The Kid Who Would Be King (Official Trailer) #Jesus #TheSecondComing #TheArthurianLegends #Kundalini #Kingship youtu.be/TADKiHYj6RE?...
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