<Li> Mikael Persbrandt as Greybeard, a viking who has deals with Vortigern . </Li> <Li> Poppy Delevingne as Igraine, Arthur's mother and Uther's wife: she is killed by Vortigern in the beginning of the film . </Li> <P> Kamil Lemieszewski, Jacqui Ainsley and Rob Knighton portrays Merlin, the Lady of the Lake and Mordred, three important characters from the Arthurian Mythology, respectively . Katie McGrath and Millie Brady portrays Vortigern's wife, Elsa, and daughter, Catia, respectively . David Beckham appears in a cameo . Lorraine Bruce, Eline Powell and Hermione Corfield appears as the three Syrens . Michael McElhatton portrays Jack's Eye, Arthur's scout on the kingdom . Nicola Wren portrays Lucy, the prostitute who raises Arthur . </P> <P> After 2004's King Arthur, Warner Brothers made multiple attempts to make a new film based on Arthurian legend: One was to be a remake of Excalibur, helmed by Bryan Singer, while the other was a movie to have been titled Arthur & Lancelot, which would have starred Kit Harington and Joel Kinnaman, as King Arthur and Lancelot respectively . Warner Brothers suits worried that names were not big enough, and attempted to replace both actors with more profitable ones, before eventually dropping the project all together . </P>

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