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Summary The legend of King Arthur gets a fresh and brutal new take with The Winter King. Adapted from Bernard Cornwell's Warlord Chronicles trilogy of novels, the historical fiction novel acts as a retelling of Arthur's rise to become a king of Britain, setting the story in the Post-Roman Dark Age of the country and finding him trying to work his way back from banishment with the support of Merlin, Nimue, Morgan, and Derfel and put a stop to the invading Saxons.
Julie Gardner: So, I've long wanted to tell the Arthur legend on television. Back 100 years ago, when I was at university, I did an MA in Renaissance studies, which was not very practical for getting a job, but I loved it. So, I read and studied all those early iterations of the story, and then over the years, I have pretty much watched just about every adaptation for screen, and it is a story that I've loved for so many reasons.
But, more importantly is Guinevere, Guinevere has always come across as this kind of femme fatale character, and I think that it does her such a disservice, and it's something that Kate and Ed, our screenwriters, really leaned into, just so that we make sure that Guinevere has that agency, and also, she's like Arthur's consult. She's shoulder to shoulder with him when it comes to making those big decisions of state, so it felt just really fresh.
Julie Gardner: Thank you for telling me that you think the production values and the budget works, because we really, really worked hard in our prep to identify where we would spend the money and why.
Julie Gardner: It's a difficult choice, though, because again, I love it in the novels, because the tone is amazing, it's elegiac, he's got lots of moments where he's like, "Little did we know that we'd sown the seeds of our destruction," and you get a tingle up your spine reading it. So, it's a loss, but I know it's the right decision to pull the drama into the present day of the story.
Julie Gardner: I think he has real soul to him, and, again, spoiler alert, if you've read the novels, the trilogy goes under the umbrella, The Warlord Chronicles, and in the development of the piece, you start to go, "Well, who is the real warlord here?" You'd assume it's Arthur, but really, it's Derfel, because of that journey from seemingly ordinary man to warrior to the reveal of his extraordinary backstory, that his morality, his eventual marriage, the way he lives...
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