King Arthur: Legend Of The Sword

Charlie Hunnam Swings His Massive Sword In New Trailer For King Arthur: Legend Of The Sword

This looks really cool.

Tuesday, February 21, 2017 - 10:36

A new trailer has arrived for Guy Ritchie’s King Arthur: Legend Of The Sword, and its safe to say it’s a little different from the traditional tale of the Knights of the Round Table. Lots more explosions, for one…

Warner Bros.

This new take on the classic tale sees Charlie Hunnam’s Arthur living in exile, while Jude Law’s evil Vortigern lords it over the city of Londinium. “I’ve never had any power… nor any desire to achieve it,” says Arthur, but while he might be keeping things low-key, a prophecy declares that “the born king will come”. Time to saddle up, Arthur… there’s a kingdom to take back!

Check out the new trailer, below…

King Arthur: Legend of the Sword - Official Trailer [HD]

Looks pretty mad, doesn’t it? Nice to see Game of Thrones's Littlefinger (AKA Aiden Gillen) popping up in there, while apparently there will also be a cameo for David Beckham somewhere too. Hopefully Ritchie has made his character a knight, or Becks will be kicking off…

Co-starring Djimon Hounsou, Katie McGrath and Eric Bana, King Arthur: Legend Of The Sword will open in the UK on 12 May 2017.

- By George Wales @georgewales85

Crossroads: Where Are They Now?

Then: Not a girl, not yet a woman, Crossroads marked Britney's first and only brush with big screen fame playing small-town girl Lucy; a shy, retiring, high school valedictorian who longs to find her mother who walked out on her at the age of three.

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Now: What hasn’t Britney done in the years since?! Save for a shocking fall from grace in 2007, Brit has gifted the world six more hit albums, 19 fragrances, an X Factor presenting stint, and a Las Vegas residency that continues to receive rave reviews!

[Planet Hollywood]

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Then: Zoe Saldana plays Kit, a former “fat camp” kid turned bitchy popular girl who wants nothing more than to marry her collage fiancé Dylan.

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Now: Crossroads may have only been Zoe's fourth screen credit, but the actress has gone on to become a sci-fi Queen with lead roles in the Avatar, Star Trek & GOTG film franchises. Next up; Zoe reprises her role as Gamora in GOTG2 which hits cinemas May 5

[Disney]

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Then: Taryn Manning plays Mimi, the school outcast from a trailer park who falls pregnant just before graduation. An aspiring singer, its Mimi who prompts the girls to take a road trip when she decides to travel to Los Angeles for an audition.

[Paramount]

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Now: The former Boomkat babe has worked steadily in film and TV with memorable roles in 8 Mile, Hustle & Flow, Sons of Anarchy, and OITNB playing Tiffany ‘Pennsatucky Doggett’. Next up; Taryn will star in horror film The Vault alongside James Franco.

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Then: Anson Mount plays Ben, the guitar playing former jailbird who ends up driving the girls on their road trip and eventually falls for Lucy.

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Now: Although he never quite had the breakthrough moment we thought he would, Anson has continued to act and has been playing the character Cullen Bohannon on TV western ‘Hell on Wheels’ since 2011.

[AMC]

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Then: Dan Aykroyd plays Pete, Lucy’s overprotective father who thinks it's a bad idea for his daughter to reconnect with her mother.

[Paramount]

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Now: The comedy legend - made famous thanks to roles in film classics like Ghostbusters, Caddyshack, and The Blues Brothers - continues to make movies and even made time to make a cameo in last year’s all-female Ghostbusters reboot as a cabbie.

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Then: Kim Cattrall plays Caroline, Lucy’s absent mother who appears in only one scene in the movie but boy is it a MEMORABLE one.

[Paramount]

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Now: Just as famous as Aykroyd at the time thanks to her role as Samantha Jones in Sex and the City, Kim went on to star in two SATC films before playing a woman going through a middle age crisis in Canadian show Sensitive Skin for two seasons.

[HBO Canada]

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Then: Britney’s little sister Jamie Lynn also plays Lucy, appearing in a flashback which shows the three girls at a much younger age burying their “wish box”.

[Paramount]

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Now: After becoming pregnant at 16, Jamie Lynn took an extended break from the spotlight to raise her daughter Maddie. In recent years, the former Zoey 101 star has reinvented herself as a country singer and is currently working on new music.

[Sweet Jamie Music]

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Then: Justin Long plays Henry, Lucy's socially awkward lab partner who tries and fails miserably to have sex with her on graduation night.

[Paramount]

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Now: Justin has made a career out of playing the loveable geek in films with memorable roles in Dodgeball, Accepted, Herbie Fully Loaded, Drag Me to Hell, and He’s Just Not That Into You. Next up; wedding comedy Literally Right Before Aaron.

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Then: Beverly Johnson played Kit’s mother, another overbearing parental in the film who sent her child to fat camp when she was younger but now resents the fact that her daughter has grown up to be more beautiful than her.

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Now: The former model, who fyi was the first African-American model to appear on the cover of American Vogue, hasn't appeared in many projects since Crossroads. We haven’t forgotten her playing a Fashion Director in Sabrina, the Teenage Witch though!

[Vogue]

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Then: There sure are a number of shocking plot twists that appear towards the end of the Crossroads, so it’s no surprise that Shonda Rhimes - the woman behind some of TV’s most shocking shows *in the best possible way* - wrote the script.

[Paramount]

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Now: The powerhouse producer has gone on to create some of TV’s most loved dramas (Grey's Anatomy, Scandal, and How to Get Away with Murder) and currently has three new shows in development.

[Simon & Schuster]

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Iconic Film Roles That Were Nearly Played By Other Actors

Reese Witherspoon, Kirsten Dunst, Cameron Diaz, Alicia Silverstone - Just about every actress in Hollywood passed on playing Mia Thermopolis in ‘The Princess Diaries’ before Anne Hathaway nabbed her first ever film role.

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Sarah Michelle Gellar - Alicia Silverstone may have been the perfect embodiment of a clueless teenager, but a pre-Buffy SMG was actually the first choice to play Cher Horowitz in the 1995 classic. Scheduling conflicts made her turn the role down.

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Matt Damon - His breakout role in ‘Avatar’ put him on the A-list, but it could have all been so different for Sam Worthington had Damon not turned down the role of Jake Sully to star in ‘Green Zone’ instead.

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Harrison Ford - Spielberg made the revelation during a Q&A session that Ford was his first choice to play Dr. Alan Grant in ‘Jurassic Park’. For Sam Neil’s sake the actor, fortunately, turned the role down.

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Sandra Bullock - If the internet is to be believed, Bullock was originally considered for the role of Dr. Ellie Grant in the dinosaur blockbuster before losing out to Laura Dern.

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Liam Neeson - Neeson turned down the iconic role of James Bond over two decades ago after his late wife Natasha Richardson told him that she would not marry him if he took the part. “I had to take that on board because I did want to marry her.”

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Jennifer Lawrence - It turns out all our lives could have been very different had Lawrence’s audition for the part of Bella in the ‘Twilight’ series had gone better than it did for Kristen Stewart.

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Robin Williams - Harry Potter fan Williams was vocal about the time he lobbied to play Hagrid in the movie franchise but was turned down because of his nationality, with J.K. Rowling insisting on British actors being cast in the films.

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Macauley Culkin and Angelina Jolie - Of all the actors and actresses considered to play Jack and Rose in James Cameron’s blockbuster classic ‘Titanic’, its the prospect of ‘Home Alone’s’ Kevin painting Jolie in the nude that has us most wide-eyed.

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Tom Cruise - Thanks to his now iconic underwear dance sequence in ‘Risky Business’, Cruise was an obvious first choice to play Ren McCormack in the 1984 musical ‘Footloose’ but was unavailable due to filming ‘All the Right Moves’ at the time.

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Tom Cruise - It’s hard to believe now, but Cruise was also once earmarked to play Tony Stark in ‘Iron Man’. Oddly, his strange request to have his face shown at all times in the film through a transparent visor is apparently what lost him the role.

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Al Pacino - Harrison Ford has this acting legend to thank for his breakout role as Han Solo in ‘Star Wars’ after Pacino - the studio’s first choice - turned down the role due to not understanding the film’s script whatsoever.

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Russell Crowe - According to Jackman, Crowe was actually Bryan Singer’s first choice to play Wolverine, but after turning the role down he suggested his mate for the part instead.

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Sarah Harding - The Girls Aloud singer is said to have got called back three times for ‘X-Men: First Class’ before eventually losing out to January Jones who plays super chill villain Emma Frost in the film. Yes, really.

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Gwen Stefani - Speaking with Howard Stern on his SiriusXM show, Stefani revealed that she had auditioned for the role of Mrs Smith in ‘Mr and Mrs Smith’ and ALMOST got it. Imagine all the possibilities for what the world might look like now if she had

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John Travolta - Admitting more recently that it was a stupid decision, Travolta is said to have accepted the role of Forrest Gump before dropping it. Tom Hanks went on to win an Academy Award for “Best Actor” for his performance in the film.

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Leonardo DiCaprio - Though he was Paul Thomas Anderson’s first choice to play Dirk Diggler, DiCaprio turned down the part to star in a little movie called ‘Titanic’. The actor has since admitted that his biggest regret is turning down ‘Boogie Nights’.

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Leonardo DiCaprio - Fresh off his ‘Titanic’ success, producers were keen for DiCaprio to play the lead in ‘American Psycho’. The director hated that idea though as she had always envisioned Christian Bale playing the narcissistic serial killer.

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David Schwimmer - The Friends star was originally offered the role of Agent J in ‘Men In Black’ (before it went to Will Smith) but had to turn it down when he found out filming would conflict with directing his first film.

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Jack Nicholson - One of Al Pacino’s most iconic roles as Michael Corleone in ‘The Godfather’ was nearly played by Nicholson who dropped out of the film after feeling like the role wasn’t quite right for him.

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Bill Murray - With Warner Brothers originally wanting Tim Burton’s ‘Batman’ films to be a total camp-fest like the old TV series, Murray was originally the first choice to play the caped crusader before Michael Keaton eventually bagged the role.

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Anne Hathaway - Jennifer Lawrence might have needed to wait a little longer to win her first Academy Award had Hathaway not dropped out of ‘Silver Linings Playbook’ early on due to “creative differences” with David O. Russell.

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Jim Carrey - Johnny Depp has “scheduling conflicts” to thank for the role of a lifetime that rejuvenated his Hollywood career as Carrey was first choice to play Jack Sparrow in ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’. He was busy filming ‘ Bruce Almighty.’

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Julia Roberts - Sharon Stone’s leg-crossing femme fatale was very nearly played by Julia Roberts who had to turn down the role when she found out she’d have to appear completely nude in the film.

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Sean Connery - Half of Hollywood has this Scottish legend to thank for making a second career out of turning down famous roles. See: Dumbledore (Harry Potter), John Hammond (Jurassic Park), Gandalf (The Lord of The Rings), and Morpheus (The Matrix).

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21 LGBT Movies Everyone Should See

Brokeback Mountain (2005): We dare you not to cry for a week after watching Ang Lee's heartbreaking drama about two cowboys who must keep their love for each other - over the course of several years - a secret.

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Looking: The Movie (2016): HBO’s short-lived gay drama is given a fitting goodbye in this 90 minute special that follows Patrick as he returns to San Francisco in search of closure regarding his relationships with former lovers Richie and Kevin.

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Stranger by the Lake (2014): A French thriller set in a popular gay cruising-spot that asks the question; What are you prepared to turn a blind eye to in the pursuit of getting your rocks off.

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All About My Mother (1999): A humorous, emotional, and heartfelt story from acclaimed director Pedro Almodóvar that portrays transsexual and transgender living in a sympa-thetic and sensitive way.

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Weekend (2011): Andrew Haigh’s critically acclaimed film that follows a brief romance between two men - over the course of one weekend - is a modern classic that will leave you pining for a similar connection next time you’re out on the pull.

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A Single Man (2009): Tom Ford’s seriously stylish directorial debut follows an English professor played by Colin Firth as he struggles to find meaning in his life after the death of his long time partner.

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Tomboy (2011): A touching French drama that deals with childhood gender confusion in a refreshingly low-key way.

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Girlhood (2014): Céline Sciamma’s follow-up to Tomboy set in the Paris suburbs that also happens to feature a memorable lip sync of Rihanna's "Diamonds" is a classic coming of age story told through the eyes of a young black girl named Marieme.

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Monster (2004): Charlize Theron's Oscar-winning turn as serial killer Aileen Wuornos isn't an easy watch but her commitment to the part which sees her explore a lesbian relationship with Christina Ricci’s character Selby is essential viewing.

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My Own Private Idaho (1992): Gus Van Sant's 90s loose reworking of Henry IV follows a pair of gay street hustlers (played by Keanu Reeves and the late River Phoenix) as they embark on a journey of self discovery.

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Moonlight (2016): This coming of age drama that chronicles the life of a young black man from childhood to adulthood is already receiving some major Oscar buzz with critics calling it a visual masterpiece. Its UK release is planned for February.

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The Kids Are All Right (2010): Lisa Cholodenko's lesbian drama follows a teenage girl and her younger brother as they try to track down their biological father much to the an-noyance of their mothers.

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Tangerine (2015): A dramedy about a trangender sex worker who discovers after being released from prison that her boyfriend has been cheating on her with a cis woman was definitely our favourite film last year to be shot entirely on an iPhone 5s.

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Pariah (2011): Writer-director Dee Rees’s teen drama - which impressed Meryl Streep enough to give the film and its lead Adepero Oduye a shoutout at the 2012 Golden Globes - tells the story of Alike, a 17-year-old teenager embracing her sexuality.

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The Pass (2016): Russell Tovey and Arinze Kene play two professional football players who share a kiss in their hotel room the night before their first big game in this movie ad-aptation of John Donnelly’s critically-acclaimed play.

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King Cobra (2016): Disney star Garrett Clayton sheds his wholesome image (and his clothes) to play real-life gay porn star Brent Corrigan in this sleazy, sexy, and tense thriller that will appeal to fans of Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers.

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Blue Is The Warmest Color (2013): This electrifying French drama famed for its explicit sex scenes centres on a 15-year-old girl named Adèle who falls for an older “blue-haired” art student named Emma.

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Free Fall (2013): This emotionally-charged German drama that follows a soon-to-be-father who falls for a fellow police officer will leave you feeling more breathless than the main character: who fyi spends most of the movie jogging.

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Carol (2015): Todd Hayes’s lesbian romance about an aspiring photographer who de-velops an intimate relationship with an older woman earned rave reviews and a pair of Oscar nominations for its leading lady’s Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara.

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Boys Don’t Cry (1999): Oscar winner Hilary Swank (in her most memorable role to date) plays trans man Brandon Teena in this moving true-life story that helped to open up a widespread dialogue about gender identity.

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Pride (2015): Based on the true story about a group of gay activists who worked tirelessly to help miners during their lengthy strike of the National Union of Mineworkers in the summer of 1984, this British comedy will make you feel all the feels.

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