James Norton and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau don their armor in these first-look images for their historical BBC drama King & Conqueror.
The images show Norton as Harold, Earl of Wessex and Coster-Waldau as William, Duke of Normandy, along with shots of Emily Beecham as Edith Swanneck and Clémence Poésy as Matilda. See those below.
King & Conqueror chronicles a clash that defined the future of Britain for a thousand years, with Harold of Wessex and William of Normandy the two men destined to meet at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. Though they are allies with no design on the British throne, they find themselves forced by circumstance and personal obsession into a war for possession of the crown.
The series also stars star Eddie Marsan as King Edward, Juliet Stevenson as Lady Emma, Jean-Marc Barr as King Henry, Luther Ford as Tostig, Geoff Bell as Godwin, Elliott Cowan as Sweyn, Bo Bragason as Queen Gunhild, Bjarne Henriksen as Earl Siward, Oliver Masucci as Baldwin, Clare Holman as Gytha, Elander Moore as Morcar, Indy Lewis as Margaret, Jason Forbes as Thane Thomas, Ingvar Sigurdsson as Fitzosbern, Ines Asserson as Judith, Sveinn Ólafur Gunnarsson as Hardrada and Léo Legrand as Odo.
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The show comes from The Development Partnership, Norton and Kitty Kaletsky’s Rabbit Track Pictures, Shepherd Content, Baltasar Kormákur’s RVK Studios and CBS Studios, in association with the BBC. The series is written by Michael Robert Johnson with the opening episode directed by Kormákur, who has steered the creative direction of the series an exec producer.
Norton and Kaletsky exec produce for Rabbit Track Pictures, Baltasar Kormákur for RVK Studios, Robert Taylor for The Development Partnership and Dave Clarke and Richard Halliwell for Shepherd Content. Ed Clarke, Coster-Waldau, and CBS Studios’ Lindsey Martin also EP.
The UK acquired rights to the show from Paramount Global Content Distribution, and will premiere it next year on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.
Earlier this week at Content London, Norton revealed he had initially wanted to play William who (SPOILER ALERT) slays Harold, but HBO had other ideas. At the time production was ramping up, Norton was starring in HBO series The Nevers, and HBO was concerned about schedule conflicts and didn’t want him to commit too strongly to King and Conqueror.
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