Ridley Scott in talks to Direct Disney's 'The Merlin Saga' Adaptation

After helming “All the Money in the World,” Ridley Scott is currently undergoing talks to direct Disney’s adaptation of young Merlin’s life in “The Merlin Saga.” The movie will be based on the books by T.A. Barron which chronicled the origins of “the greatest of all the wizards.”
According to TheWrap, “The Merlin Saga” will follow the story of Merlin before the events of the Excalibur and before he became King Arthur’s mentor.  Scott’s other production brand Scott Free will produce the movie alongside Gil Netter with a script penned by Philippa Boyens. Back in 2015, Deadline announced Boyens as the movie’s writer and Netter as producer.
T.A. Barron’s “The Merlin Saga” is a 12-book series originally sold in three separate series—”The Lost Years of Merlin,” an epic consisting of 5 books, “Merlin’s Dragon” Trilogy, “The Great Tree of Avalon” Trilogy and “The Book of Magic,” a companion novel to “The Merlin Saga.”
Aside from “The Merlin Saga,” Disney is also developing another King Arthur-centric live-action project, “Sword in the Stone,” which Scott has also talked about with the executives. King Arthur and Merlin were seen in the big screen last year in Guy Ritchie’s “King Arthur: Legend of the Sword,” which starred Charlie Hunnam, Jude Law, and Eric Bana. However, it was in 1998 where we saw a television adaptation of the Merlin mythos, “Merlin.” It starred Sam Neill and aired on NBC.