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That is great news, I have read all of Cornwell's books save the most recent (The Empty Thrown) and that one I ordered two days ago.
The Saxon series hopefully will have better production values than the Sharpe's Rifle tv series. What was supposed to be a charge of two French battalions would be like thirty guys.
I had always pictured Lord Uhtred as a bigger, bulkier guy than Alexander Dreymon who will be playing him. Uhtred has such an ironic sense of humor, that I also envisioned a merrier looking face.
What part of the story will be included--the first books where he is thrown out of his kingdom and comes under Alfred's colors?
I love anything about that era
have read the Joan Wolfe novels about Alfred and the Saxons before him--Edge of Light and Born of the Sun-- which are probably classified as romances but Wolfe is excellent historical fiction--the romance is pretty light when weighed against the general historical information--just very readable--
and I think I have a copy of the early movie about King Alfred w/David Hemmings someplace--maybe VHS--
and have read other novels about early England--
loving the Viking series on History channel....
I just hope this has a decent script--Cornwall is great writer--very visual to my way of thinking--which should make transforming the books into script easier than with some writers---like McCarthy--where there is so much thinking...
What part of the story will be included--the first books where he is thrown out of his kingdom and comes under Alfred's colors?
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It has been announced as a series of eight, one hour episodes. My guess is that it will all come from the first book in the series, (Last Kingdom) and if it is a success, they will move on to the next book in the series and do that as season two etc.
The eighth book in the series was published last month (The Empty Throne) and I don't think that they are planning to do eight episodes where each book gets a 60 minute treatment, that would be horrible.
"Wolf Hall" which is BBC production in 6 episodes of Hillary Mansell's two novels started out with high numbers first two episodes but started dropping after 1st one--now that E4 has played it is pulling low viewer numbers...
while I think that is mainly due to the dense nature of her writing--it is not romance fiction or a text version of Henry VIII's movie w/Charles Laughton--and how the production is filmed in natural light so the sets are pretty dark and most viewers w/o any historical knowledge of the minor characters are probably clueless as to the conflicts and tensions...
There is more action/warfare in this series of novels but there is also lot of subtle infighting
if it is more like Game of Thrones or Vikings than Wolf Hall-- it will likely succeed---
personally I would like them to do ALL the books but think from financial standpoint that is very unlikely--
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