You can watch a snippet of my interview with Charlie Hunnam regarding King Arthur: Legend Of The Sword below.
Charlie Hunnam had originally explained to me that he decided against focusing on delving into the character’s long and illustrious past because screenwriters Guy Ritchie, Lionel Wigram and Joby Harold had already created such a vivid new interpretation of King Arthur.
Obviously Hunnam was allowed to add to this, with Guy Ritchie encouraging his collaboration throughout production, but Hunnam insisted that all of the books, films and whatnot were irrelevant, because, “Not a lot of the source material available had a lot with what we were doing anyway.”