40 Fun Facts About King Arthur: Legend of the Sword

Which former England footballer makes a cameo as Trigger, a guard, in King Arthur: Legend of the Sword?

David Beckham got the part through his friendship with the director, and his guard oversees the prisoners lined up to try pulling the sword from the stone.

Which Sons of Anarchy star plays the street-raised Arthur in King Arthur: Legend of the Sword?

Charlie Hunnam was the director's own choice for Arthur and was cast in August 2014, almost three years before the film reached cinemas.

Which director of Snatch and Sherlock Holmes made King Arthur: Legend of the Sword?

Guy Ritchie had wanted to make an Arthur film for several years, and he also co-wrote the screenplay and served as one of the producers.

Which actor, Dr. Watson in the Sherlock Holmes films, plays the tyrant king in King Arthur: Legend of the Sword?

Jude Law plays Arthur's uncle, who murders his way to the throne of Britain and is able to transform himself into a demonic knight.

Before it flopped, King Arthur: Legend of the Sword was planned by its studio to launch what?

A six-film franchise was the plan, with different characters getting their own films before teaming up, but the sequels were cancelled after the first lost over $150 million.

After a frustrated Arthur throws his sword away in King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, who returns it to him?

The Lady of the Lake hands the blade back and shows Arthur a vision of England's future under his uncle. She is played by Jacqui Ainsley, who is married to the director.

Which enormous creature does the sorceress send into the castle to save Arthur in King Arthur: Legend of the Sword?

A snake of giant size attacks the castle on her command, after she had dosed Arthur with snake venom to protect him from the surprise.

Which legendary castle is besieged by a warlock's armies in the opening of King Arthur: Legend of the Sword?

Camelot is saved when Arthur's father slips into the enemy's lair in the middle of the attack and beheads the warlock with a unique blade.

In King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, the stone gripping the sword is really the body of which king, Arthur's father?

Uther Pendragon sacrifices himself to save his young son, and his body becomes the stone that entombs the blade, as Arthur learns in a vision.

After King Arthur: Legend of the Sword flopped, its director next made which Disney live-action remake?

Aladdin arrived in 2019 and earned more than $1 billion worldwide, becoming the highest-grossing film of the director's career.

In King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, which uncle of Arthur seizes the throne of Britain in a coup?

Vortigern envies the popularity of his brother, Arthur's father, and secretly persuades a warlock to attack the kingdom to clear his own path to the crown.

Which Australian star of Troy and Hulk plays Arthur's father in King Arthur: Legend of the Sword?

Eric Bana played the Trojan hero Hector in Troy, and his king here is betrayed and killed by his own brother in the opening act.

Which Game of Thrones actor, the schemer Littlefinger, plays a rebel archer in King Arthur: Legend of the Sword?

Aidan Gillen plays a former knight of Arthur's father who has joined the resistance, and by the end of the film he has taken up his old title again.

Which Blood Diamond and Amistad actor plays resistance leader Sir Bedivere in King Arthur: Legend of the Sword?

Djimon Hounsou plays a former general of Arthur's father who shelters the rescued heir, and he reunited with the film's lead in Rebel Moon in 2023.

Which Hollywood studio lost more than $150 million on King Arthur: Legend of the Sword?

Warner Bros. spent $175 million making the film and at least $100 million more on marketing, then watched it open in third place at the North American box office.

What does Arthur begin building in the final scene of King Arthur: Legend of the Sword?

A round table takes shape after Arthur reclaims the throne and knights his friends. In legend it has no head, so everyone seated at it has equal status.

In King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, what is the tyrant king building to increase his own magical power?

A tower rises near the castle on the king's orders, and Arthur follows his uncle into it for their final confrontation.

Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey, the sorceress of King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, played a mermaid in which film series?

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides cast her as a mermaid, and in 2011 she also won the Trophée Chopard for female revelation of the year at the Cannes Film Festival.

Kingsley Ben-Adir, Wet Stick in King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, later starred in a biopic of which music legend?

Bob Marley: One Love gave him the title role in 2024, after he had won a breakthrough award for playing Malcolm X in One Night in Miami.

Where is the orphaned Arthur raised after fleeing the coup in King Arthur: Legend of the Sword?

A brothel takes the boy in, and he grows into a tough minor chieftain of the city's streets, plagued by nightmares of the night his parents died.

Which warlock leads his armies against the king of the Britons at the start of King Arthur: Legend of the Sword?

Mordred is usually Arthur's treacherous nephew or son in the legends, but here he is a sorcerer who is beheaded while Arthur is still a small child.

In King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, the orphaned Arthur grows up in which city, known by its Roman name?

Londinium was Roman London, a settlement founded on the Thames around AD 47 to 50, and the film's Arthur ends up there as a small child.

In King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey's sorceress is credited only under what title?

The Mage never gives a name of her own, presenting herself only as an acolyte of Merlin when she arrives to help the resistance.

Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey's role in King Arthur: Legend of the Sword was first written as which woman of legend?

Guinevere was the plan when she was cast, but the link was dropped during production and the character became a nameless sorceress instead.

In King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, which moat creatures grant the tyrant power in exchange for a loved one's blood?

Syrens, a trio living in the water around the castle, turn him into a Demon Knight when he sacrifices someone he loves to them.

Whom does the tyrant king sacrifice at the climax of King Arthur: Legend of the Sword to become the Demon Knight again?

His daughter, Princess Catia, dies so that he can face Arthur, repeating the bargain he struck years earlier when he gave up his wife Elsa.

In King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, a vision in which realm shows Arthur how his mother really died?

The Darklands trip is the sorceress's idea, and what Arthur sees there finally convinces the reluctant hero that he is the rightful king.

In King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, Swedish actor Mikael Persbrandt's Greybeard belongs to which people?

Vikings under Greybeard do deals with the tyrant king, and Persbrandt is also known as the shape-shifter Beorn in The Hobbit films.

In King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, what is the nickname of the rebel archer who once served Arthur's father?

Goosefat Bill is a skilled bowman and former knight who joins the resistance, and he resumes his identity as Sir William by the end.

At the end of King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, Arthur's friend Wet Stick is knighted under which famous name?

Sir Tristan turns out to be Wet Stick's real name, while Arthur's friend Percy is knighted as Sir Percival.

Which actor used a Reddit AMA to deny reports that he had joined King Arthur: Legend of the Sword?

Idris Elba was reported to be eyeing the film in July 2014, but he later told Reddit users that the casting story was only a rumour.

Which Marvel star was in talks for the female lead of King Arthur: Legend of the Sword before Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey?

Elizabeth Olsen was reported to be in talks in August 2014, but the French-Spanish actress landed the role on 18 September instead.

Which Game of Thrones star was set to play Arthur in a scrapped film that preceded King Arthur: Legend of the Sword?

Kit Harington was to star in Arthur & Lancelot opposite Joel Kinnaman, but the studio worried that neither name was big enough and dropped the project.

Before King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, its studio planned a Bryan Singer remake of which earlier Arthurian film?

Excalibur, John Boorman's 1981 epic, never got its remake, and pieces of several unmade Arthur scripts ended up stitched into the film that was finally shot.

Which composer, later acclaimed for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, scored King Arthur: Legend of the Sword?

Daniel Pemberton built the pounding score from percussion, medieval instruments and even the sound of his own heavy breathing.

The composer of King Arthur: Legend of the Sword says he recorded its opening sound in someone's toilet on what?

An iPhone captured the film's opening sound, he told a Reddit AMA, while the orchestral score was recorded in a London studio.

What happens to Arthur the first time he draws the sword from the stone in King Arthur: Legend of the Sword?

He passes out, overwhelmed by the weapon's power, and wakes in captivity, where his uncle explains who he really is before planning his execution.

The director and composer of King Arthur: Legend of the Sword first worked together on which spy film?

The Man from U.N.C.L.E. came out in 2015, and the footballer who cameos in the Arthur film also pops up in it, as a projectionist.

Which British national park, home to the mountain Tryfan, hosted filming for King Arthur: Legend of the Sword?

Snowdonia hosted the shoot in April 2015, and its mountain Tryfan is said in legend to be the final resting place of Sir Bedivere.

One day of filming for King Arthur: Legend of the Sword took place at the Quiraing on which Scottish island?

Skye is home to the Quiraing, a landscape of cliffs and pinnacles that includes the Prison, a mass of rock resembling a medieval keep.