We'll never see Charlie Hunnam in 50 Shades of Grey, but the former Queer as Folk star is giving us plenty to lap up in Guy Ritchie's upcoming movie, Knights of the Roundtable: King Arthur.

Entertainment Weekly whetted our appetite for this Camelot drama with some on-set photos in the new July 31 issue.

Warner Bros. hopes the new gritty action flick will be the first in a series of movies about the Knight of the Roundtable. It chronicles his rise to power against Vortigern (Jude Law), who murdered his parents, and the beginning of his romance with Guinevere (Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey).

But all that Lancelot drama will have to wait for another film. King Arthur also stars Djimon Hounsou as Sir Bedivere, Eric Bana as Uther Pendragon and Aidan Gillen as Goosefat Bill.

“I think where the pitfall has often been is trying to make King Arthur bland and nice... [and therefore] not interesting to watch," Ritchie told EW.

"Luke Skywalker was always the most uninteresting character in Star Wars because he’s the good guy. Good guys are boring.”

Hunnam's Arthur, though, will be a bad boy, an orphan raised by prostitutes in 5th century London.

View more images from EW below. Knights of the Roundtable: King Arthur hits theaters July 22, 2016