Arthur the King is a 2024 American adventure film directed by Simon Cellan Jones, written by Michael Brandt, and starring Mark Wahlberg, Simu Liu, and Juliet Rylance. It is based on the 2016 non-fiction book Arthur – The Dog Who Crossed the Jungle to Find a Home by Mikael Lindnord. In the film, the captain of an adventure racing team befriends a wounded stray dog named Arthur, who accompanies the team on a grueling 435-mile (700-km) endurance race through the Dominican Republic.
The film was announced in 2019 as a Paramount Players release. It moved to Lionsgate in June 2020 and filming began in the Dominican Republic in January 2021. The film is scheduled to be released by Lionsgate on March 15, 2024.
Cast
- Mark Wahlberg as Michael Light
- Simu Liu as Liam
- Juliet Rylance as Helena Light
- Nathalie Emmanuel
- Ali Suliman
- Rob Collins
- Michael Landes
- Bear Grylls as himself
- Paul Guilfoyle
Production
Baltasar Kormákur was initially going to direct the film, but dropped out due to schedule conflicts.
The casting of Mark Wahlberg was announced in July 2019. In December 2020, it was announced that Simu Liu, Ali Suliman and Rob Collins were cast in the film and that Simon Cellan Jones would replace Kormákur.
Paramount Players was initially attached as distributor, but left the film for unknown reasons and was replaced by Lionsgate in June 2020. Filming was planned to begin in Puerto Rico that fall. That December, it was reported that Lionsgate had also left the film.
Filming instead began in January 2021, in the Dominican Republic. In November 2023, Lionsgate had rejoined as a distributor and set a release date of March 15, 2024.
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