Emily Beecham and Clémence Poésy have actually signed up with James Norton and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau in the actors of the duration dramatization series King & &Conqueror, concerning the Fight of Hastings, from CBS Studios.
The program is based upon the 11th-century numbers Harold of Wessex, played by Norton (Satisfied Valley, Bob Marley: One Love) and William of Normandy, or William the Conqueror, depicted by Coster-Waldau (Video Game of Thrones).
Beecham (1899, Little Joe) will certainly play Edith Swan-neck, “the wife of Harold Godwinson who has never quite found her place in Harold’s family,” according to a story summary. “She married Harold for love and protection, but never expected her husband to end up fighting for the English crown.” Poésy (In Bruges, The Passage) will certainly play Matilda, the better half of William of Normandy. “Raised in the cutthroat world of the royal court, she has realized that in order to succeed she has to be more devious, more ruthless and more bloody than her male opponents,” clarifies the program summary.
The BBC has actually gotten broadcasting legal rights for the series on BBC One and BBC iPlayer in the U.K. The series will certainly be dispersed beyond U.K. by Paramount Global Material Circulation.
King & & Conqueror is “the story of a clash that defined the future of a country – and a continent – for a thousand years, the roots of which stretch back decades and extend out through a pair of interconnected family dynasties, struggling for power across two countries and a raging sea,” according to a story recap.“Harold of Wessex and William of Normandy were two men destined to meet at the Battle of Hastings in 1066; two allies with no design on the British throne, who found themselves forced by circumstance and personal obsession into a war for possession of its crown.”
Composed by Michael Robert Johnson (Sherlock Holmes), the eight-episode series will certainly see Norton additionally function as an exec manufacturer via his manufacturing business Bunny Track Photo. Coster-Waldau is routing an episode and additionally functions as executive manufacturer. Baltasar Kormákur (Everest, 2 Weapons, Caught) will certainly guide the best episode and, as executive manufacturer, guide the imaginative throughout the series. The series is created by The Growth Collaboration, Bunny Track, Guard Material, RVK Studios and CBS Studios, in organization with the BBC. It is developed and executive-produced by Johnson.
Likewise acting as exec manufacturers are Feline Kaletsky for Bunny Track, Kormákur for RVK Studios, Robert Taylor for The Growth Collaboration, Dave Clarke and Richard Halliwell for Guard Material, Ed Clarke, Robert Jones, and CBS Studios’ Lindsey Martin.
Manufacturing is slated to begin in Iceland “shortly,” CBS Studios claimed.
