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TAKE COURAGE. LOOK TO THE WEST.
A KING WILL COME.

Film Coming 2027

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Director's Statement

Excalibur is more than a film. I want to change the world.

I want to take you to a green, ancient landscape full of excitement and mystery—but this isn’t just another lovely fantasy world. This is the oldest, and the greatest.

Wales is the land on which Middle Earth—and our very concept of Western European fantasy—is based. It has a rich, deep legendarium full of wildly interesting characters and concepts.

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Meet the team

Two Welsh laureates, a director Tarantino called “the coolest”, two Tim Burton and Jim Henson alumni, a record-breaking £275m business guru and “the safest hands in media” – this is the world-class team bringing Welsh mythology to the world.

DAN FREEMAN

DAN FREEMAN

Writer / Director

Multi award-winning writer, director and producer. He is also a BBC scriptwriting tutor, author and hit playwright, and pioneered the audio movie and webcast forms for the BBC. Stephen Fry described his work as "exquisite", and Brian Blessed calls him "a ****ing genius!".

ANEIRIN KARADOG

ANEIRIN KARADOG

Bard / Welsh Language Consultant

A poet, broadcaster and linguist who has published several volumes of poetry and adapted volumes. Aneirin co-hosts a monthly Welsh language poetry podcast with Eurig Salisbury.

GEORGE DIXON

GEORGE DIXON

Commercial Strategy

An expert commercial strategist and one of the worlds must successful leaders in identifying and backing world-class scripted content. His hits include Luther, Black Mirror and Top Boy. He has regularly handled budgets of >£600m.

MICHAEL RILEY

MICHAEL RILEY

Producer

One of the UK's most prolific and respected independent film producers, having made over 30 feature films with actors such as Harvey Keitel and Rupert Everett, and including hits such as Fear The Invisible Man.

DAVID PALSER

DAVID PALSER

Production Designer

Acclaimed Slade School-trained bestselling contemporary artist. He has created the visual style of scores of films and TV and stage shows. He has been Artist in Residence at the ICA and lectures internationally on fine art.

AMANDA THOMAS

AMANDA THOMAS

Costume & Creatures

Hugely experienced Head of Department and maker who has worked on legendary productions from Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr Fox to Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio, Tim Burton's Corpse Bride and Frankenweenie.

Paul Thomas

Paul Thomas

Director of Animation

Hugely experienced animator whose hits include Rastamouse, Shaun the Sheep: Farmageddon, Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget and BAFTA winning Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl.

EURIG SALISBURY

EURIG SALISBURY

Bard / Welsh Language Consultant

A poet and novelist, Eurig has published three collections of poetry and was Bardd Plant Cymru, a Hay Festival International Fellow, and won the Prose Medal at the National Eisteddfod of Wales in 2016.

KENAN ALI

KENAN ALI

Fight Director

Equity Registered Fight Director, accredited BADC combat tutor and dedicated martial artist. He has a growing list of theatre and film credits and currently teaches dramatic combat at conservatoires and universities across the UK, including LIPA, the Royal Northern College of Music and Leeds Conservatoire.

AARON HOUGHTON

AARON HOUGHTON

Armourer

A Blacksmith from Eryri with over a decade of experience in the craft. He runs Royal Oak Forge, specialising in historic commissions and blacksmithing tuition, and serves as Chairman of the Black Crow Historical Society. He is a sword and buckler instructor at the North Wales HEMA Academy and works in film and television armoury and fight choreography.

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FAQ's

  • Caledfwlch is the Welsh name for Excalibur, but Excalibur is one of the most recognisable names in the world. In order to make the film a commercial success ensuring we can make more, we have called it Excalibur.

  • English. This is to ensure that it can reach the farthest corners of the globe as easily as possible. But we’d love you to learn Welsh, and you can do so in the Criw section of our site.

  • NO! Everyone's welcome!

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