King Arthur: Legend of the Sword - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

Fan of King Arthur: Legend of the Sword or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to King Arthur: Legend of the Sword

[cassandra]

This film marks the third collaboration between Jude Law and director Guy Ritchie. They previously worked together on Sherlock Holmes (2009) and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011).

[sara]

This is the fourth film based on Arthurian legend to be produced and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, following Camelot (1967), Excalibur (1981), and Quest for Camelot (1998).

[richard]

The name of the female Mage is never revealed, but her role in the plot is similar to that of Nimue in traditional Arthurian legends.

[chris]

The film's original title was "Knights of the Roundtable: King Arthur."

[gerald]

A common mistake is that Arthur was a legendary king of England. He was in fact a legendary king of Britain or Britannia to be exact. The first Arthurian legends were Welsh. The Welsh (and Cornish) are the direct descendents of the ancient Britons who inhabited the island of Britain until the coming of the Saxons pushed them to the western edges of the island and south to Brittany (hence the name and the fact Arthur is also a Breton folk hero). Although the Anglo Saxons who built England probably knew the Arthurian ballads it wasn't until after the Norman invasion that the (Christianised) tales became popular in England once again.

[frederick]

Charlie Hunnam's introduction scene in the film was originally very different. The finished film introduces him shirtless, doing some intense wrestling and shadow-boxing (punching the air), but Hunnam revealed it was a much bigger sequence earlier, saying, "We had this whole montage planned out with pull-ups and push-ups and heavy bag boxing -- a proper 'Rocky' montage. And the shadow boxing that I do was just me trying to stay in the zone in the takes, and that's ultimately what Guy chose to use in the film."

[cassandra]

This film reunited Charlie Hunnam and Geoff Bell, both of whom were in Green Street Hooligans (2005).

[elmer]

This was supposed to be the first installment of a planned six-film series, but those plans were scrapped after it bombed at the box office.

[ethel]

Eline Powell, who portrays one of the Three Syrens, is also the star of the mermaid drama "Siren" (2018).

[alyssa]

Freddie Fox (Ed) has a sister, Emilia Fox, who portrayed Morgause, the maternal half-sister of Morgana (King Arthur was Morgana's paternal half-brother), which was portrayed by Katie McGrath (Elsa in this film), in Merlin (2008), a BBC series based on Arthurian Legend.

[sandra]

Maciej Kwiatkowski, Wojciech Roguski, and Slawomir Kurek from Prime Fury Stunt Team, which did all motion captures for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (2015) game, did the motion capture stunts, performance, and fight choreography.

[gerald]

The opening of the film features a sequence in which King Uther rides out to personally repel the invading army. The musical score for this sequence is actually a piece of music composed by Gareth Williams from 2009. It was created for 'The Life', a live-action advertisement for the video game Halo 3: ODST (2009). Daniel Pemberton (lead composer of this film) confirmed that director Guy Ritchie always intended to use this piece of music in Uther's opening sequence, as Ritchie is a self-professed gamer and Halo fan and had always wanted to use that piece of music in one of his films. Thus, Ritchie and Warner Bros. licensed the music (itself called 'The Life') from Microsoft for use in this film and inclusion on the film's soundtrack (in the track titled "The Politics and The Life"). Interestingly, despite years of interest from Halo fans, the release of the soundtrack for this film marks the first time that Williams' piece of music has been made available for purchase or download in any form.

[tom]

Felicity Jones, Elizabeth Olsen, and Alicia Vikander auditioned for the role of the Mage.

[nina]

The shot which establishes the dark warrior who kills Arthur's mother and attempts to take Excalibur from Uther seems heavily inspired by Frank Frazetta's own Dark Warrior painting: same angle, intention, and pretty much the same overall design.

[bryan]

The film went through several stages. First, director David Dobkin tried to make a version with Kit Harington as King Arthur and Joel Kinnaman as Lancelot, but the movie was deemed too expensive and the actors too unknown. Then, Colin Farrell was cast as King Arthur and Gary Oldman as Merlin, but that version wasn't made either.

[melinda]

Very little of Joby Harold's script was used. Producer Lionel Wigram rewrote it considerably.

[richard]

Mikael Persbrandt dropped out of the long-running "Beck" series, which made him a star in Sweden, to appear in this film.

[mathew]

Sticky Studios developed the official "King Arthur: Legend of the Sword" game for iOS and Android. It uses the "dojo" area as seen in the trailer as a setup to show Arthur's street fighting skills. The game uses swipe based gestures for hand combat and wielding the Excalibur sword. The studio also designed a virtual reality activity for Google Daydream, which allows players to fight using motion gestures.

[lena]

Idris Elba was reportedly strongly considered for the role of Merlin in the film, but it turned out to be just a rumor as Elba commented on the matter, stating, "Unfortunately, I'm not in the 'King Arthur' movies. That was a rumor. That wasn't true, unfortunately. But I wish the guys a lot of success."