10 Movies With INSANE Budgets (That Didn't Pay Off)

It seems that every decade or so, one production company or another tries to reboot the legend of King Arthur in a new movie or television series. Some of these end up working as either financial hits, or they go on to become cult classics, but they don't all work.

The movie that holds the distinction as being the biggest failure in this category is 2017's King Arthur: Legend Of The Sword, which was initially planned to be the first in a six-picture film franchise. The movie ended up failing so badly, the remaining five movies were almost immediately cancelled.

King Arthur was one of those movies that could have gone either way, but thanks to a massive budget of $175 million, it had to rake in a lot of cash in order to recover its cost. That never happened thanks to a total worldwide box office pull of $148.6 million.

While that's not a small amount of money, the budget coupled with the marketing costs led to a total loss of $150 million dollars. King Arthur took eight years to finally come to fruition, and thanks to various expensive delays, high-cost salaries, and an inflated effects budget, it got way too expensive to ever be profitable. The movie was panned by critics who literally were "warning audiences to stay away," and while it holds a 31% on Rotten Tomatoes thanks to professional critics, the Audience Score of 69% indicates it may not have been as bad as was initially reported.