Trivia / The Kid Who Would Be King

• Acclaimed Flop: Has a 90% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and 66 score on Metacritic, but only made $30 million on a $50 million budget.
• Box Office Bomb: Budget, $50 million. Box office, $30.3 million. In spite of receiving decent reviews from critics and audiences alike, the film was unable to recoup its budget, likely due to it being released in January, facing competition from The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part and Glass (2019), and the general unpopularity of films based on Arthurian legend (which previously felled King Arthur (2004), Tristan and Isolde, King Arthur: Legend of the Sword and many more). The film is estimated to lose $50 million for Fox's new parent company Disney.
• Darkhorse Casting: With the exceptions of Patrick Stewart and Rebecca Ferguson, no one in the cast is particularly well known. Though given the majority of the characters are preteens, this was probably a given.

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