Official Trailer for Dog Movie ‘Arthur the King’ Starring Mark Wahlberg
by Alex Billington
November 15, 2023
Source: YouTube
“Extra meatballs for you, my friend.” Give him all the meatballs! Lionsgate has revealed an official trailer for a dog movie called Arthur the King, set for release in March 2024. They slid in to take this release spot after the reshuffling of movie release dates following the end of the SAG-AFTRA strike. Based on a true story, and adapted from Mikael Lindnord’s book “Arthur: The Dog who Crossed the Jungle to Find a Home”, the film is about an elite adventure racer who adopts a stray dog that follows him during an epic endurance race. Wahlberg plays a Swedish guy named Mikael Lindnord, who’s the captain of a Swedish adventure racing team, who befriends a wounded stray dog named Arthur, who accompanies the team on a grueling 400-mile endurance race through the Ecuadorian jungle. Also with Simu Liu, Juliet Rylance, Nathalie Emmanuel, Ali Suliman, with Bear Grylls as Himself, and Paul Guilfoyle. This actually looks quite good! A tad cheesy, but not so bad, appropriately uplifting and all this actually happened. For the most part.
Here’s the first official trailer (+ poster) for Simon Cellan Jones’ Arthur the King, direct from YouTube:
Over the course of ten days and 435 miles, an unbreakable bond is forged between pro adventure racer Michael Light (Mark Wahlberg) and a scrappy street dog companion he dubbed Arthur. Based on an incredible true story, Arthur the King follows Light, desperate for one last chance to win, as he convinces a sponsor to back him and a team of athletes (Simu Liu, Nathalie Emmanuel, Ali Suliman) for the Adventure Racing World Championship in the Dominican Republic. As the team is pushed to their extreme limits of endurance in the race, Arthur redefines what victory, loyalty and friendship truly mean. Arthur the King is directed by British producer / filmmaker Simon Cellan Jones, director of the films The Big One, Some Voices, The One and Only, On Expenses, this year’s The Family Plan, plus episodes of the series “Ballers”, “See”, and “The Diplomat” most recently. The screenplay is written by Michael Brandt, based on the book “Arthur” written by Mikael Lindnord. It’s produced by Mark Canton, Courtney Solomon, Tessa Tooley, and Tucker Tooley. Lionsgate releases Arthur the King in theaters nationwide starting on March 22nd, 2023.
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