Charlie Hunnam as King Arthur: First Look Photo!

Shooting has continued in England throughout this past year, and now Entertainment Weekly has our first look at it’s leading man. Theres definitely a harder edge to him than people would imagine.

In the excerpts from the accompanying interview released so far, Hunnam says that most good guys in film are “boring”, in the sense that they don’t make a compelling watch. Its sort of classic Guy Ritchie stuff. “He’s a hustler”, adds Hunnam.

Speaking about past incarnations of the titular character, Ritchie said, “I think where the pitfall has often been is trying to make King Arthur bland and nice, and nice and bland. Good guys are boring”. Ritchie explains that the decidedly non-regal look comes out of his idea that the world was sick and exhausted of goody-two-shoes versions of Arthur.

Clive Owen’s Arthur, as seen in the 2004 drama King Arthur, was a dark, conflicted and somewhat reluctant hero. This new take features giant snakes, hulking war elephants and a possibly human, Viking-esque creature known only as The Nemesis (ancestor to Gorgeous George, perhaps?).

Producer Lionel Wigram said, of the creative decision: ‘Hopefully, loyalists won’t be too offended by what we’ve done.’.

In fact, Ritchie has been planning that departure from the start! EW went to the London set of King Arthur to chat with Hunnam and Ritchie. That’s right, get ready for Knights of the Roundtable: Lancelot, Knights of the Roundtable: Galahad, and, way, way down the road, Knights of the Roundtable: Guinevere. The Arthur in the short-lived Camelot (played by Jamie Campbell Bower) was younger, and therefore more selfish and unpolished, and of course Merlin’s King Arthur – while ultimately heroic – was depicted as both arrogant and stubborn, and certainly not the sharpest tool in the treasure chest.

Other cast members for the “King Arthur” movie have also been hyping the film up, despite its scheduled release date of 2016. The former Sons of Anarchy star proudly shows off his massive sword while lounging in, on and around the set of director Guy Ritchie’s latest attempt to rebuff an ancient legend.