The Winter King is a British historical fiction television series based on Bernard Cornwell's trilogy of novels The Warlord Chronicles,[1] starring Iain De Caestecker as Arthur Pendragon. The series premiered on MGM+ in the United States on 20 August 2023 and on ITVX in the United Kingdom on 21 December 2023.[2]
The series acts as a retelling of the Arthurian legends and takes place in Post-Roman Dark Age Britain, where the warlord Arthur Pendragon has been banished while Saxons invade and a child-king sits unprotected on the throne.
On 22 April 2022, Sony Pictures Television announced that their recently acquired production company Bad Wolf were adapting The Winter King, the first book in Bernard Cornwell's Warlord Trilogy, into a 10-part series for British television.[12] The series was developed for television by Kate Brooke and Ed Whitmore, premiering in 2023[13] on ITVX, the upcoming streaming platform from U.K. broadcaster ITV[14] Other writers include Nessah Muthy.[15] Lachlan Mackinnon and Catrin Lewis Defis is producing.[16] American cable network MGM+ was at one point adapting The Warlord Trilogy with Bad Wolf but is no longer involved.[17][18] Otto Bathurst will be the lead director,[19] with additional episodes directed by Farren Blackburn.
Aske Alexander Foss will serve as lead Director of Photography shooting blocks 1 & 3 with Stephan Pehrsson shooting block 2. The series will shoot in Wales and the West Country in the second half of 2022. In July 2022, the Tropiquaria Zoo in Watchet, Somerset was used as a base for filming within a 5 mi (8.0 km) radius of the Watchet wildlife park and aquarium.[20] A set has been built next to a former Wye Valley quarry[21] near Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales.[22][23]
This drama will also be filmed in Bristol on a temporary film set with a fortified encampment at Patchway Studios off Highwood Road in Patchway Trading Estate. The set will mainly be a ‘rocky canyon’ structure made up of prefabricated polyurethane foam panels on scaffolding. The filming operation would vary between 70 and 150 cast and crew across 70 days between July 2022 and January 2023.[24] The series is supported by The Bristol Film Office.[25]
On 15 September 2022, filming took place in Wiltshire and near Bradford on Avon in South West England.[26] Local Bristol media reported on 30 September that parts of the Blaise Castle Estate in Henbury have been cordoned off as a filming location for this television drama. A specific area of Blaise Castle grounds have been transformed into a village with sets being built.[27][28] On 11 October 2022, the filming moved to The Brabazon Hangars/Filton Airfield north of Bristol.[29]
On Rotten Tomatoes, The Winter King holds an approval rating of 82% based on 11 critic reviews. The critics consensus reads: "Action-packed and sprawling in scope, The Winter King compensates for its lack of fidelity to Bernard Cornwell's books with sheer entertainment value."[30] Metacritic assigned the series a weighted average score of 60 out of 100, based on seven critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[31]
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