Series 5 of the Camelot-themed drama is shooting now, but the creators are interested in branching the programme out to the big screen.

Speaking at the show’s San Diego Comic-Con panel, co-creator Johnny Capps teased potential plans for the adolescent Wizard.

“We’re hopefully going to do a trilogy – three movies. We will focus on them when we finish season five,” he told Digital Spy. “One idea we’ve been playing around with is to reboot the whole series [for the films]. We would go back in time and start the story again and show different parts that you didn’t see in the series. The other idea is to do a continuation, but we haven’t decided yet.”

As the project is still firmly in development, details are obviously scarce and there is no indication whether these films are intended for cinema, television or a straight-to-DVD release.

Would you like to see a Merlin movie trilogy, or are you keen for the stories to continue in a sixth series?