10 Movie Franchises That Were Robbed Of An Ending

10. King Arthur: Legend Of The Sword

Planning is absolutely essential when it comes to building a movie franchise. Without it, a studio runs the risk of suffering exactly what the Star Wars sequels went through - three movies that were completely disconnected and seemingly going out of their way to retcon the others.

However, you have to be sensible about these things. Franchises like the aforementioned Star Wars, the MCU, and any drawing from a book series with a pre-existing, passionate fanbase can reasonably expect success, but King Arthur was none of these.

Of course, it's a famous story, but it doesn't exactly have the die-hard fans of Harry Potter. This is why announcing a six-movie franchise before the first movie (King Arthur: Legend of the Sword), had even been released was incredibly risky. Particularly with a leading man lacking the star power to put such a franchise on his back.

As popular as Charlie Hunnam was as Jax Teller in Sons of Anarchy, he couldn't lift King Arthur above a disappointing and franchise-ending box office of $148 million worldwide. Unsurprisingly, any hope of sequels died with this bomb.