King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
Although King Arthur: Legend of the Sword bombed in theaters, its staggering VFX was deemed a "visual feast" by Indiewire. It took the visual effects team 18 months just to complete the film's complex opening sequence, but the biggest challenge by far was creating Excalibur, Pendragon's sword. "The sword was part of the evolving look," said Christian Kaestner, the visual effects supervisor. "It was something that was quite magical to begin with, then it became real and less interaction and less effects."