Bernard Cornwell Interview | The Last Kingdom
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The year is 872, and many of the separate kingdoms of what we now know as England have fallen to the invading Danes, leaving the great kingdom of Wessex standing alone and defiant under the command of King Alfred.
Against this turbulent backdrop lives our hero, Uhtred. Born the son of a Saxon nobleman, he is captured by the Danes and raised as one of their own. Forced to choose between the country of his birth and the people of his upbringing, his loyalties are ever tested.
What is he? Saxon or Dane?
On a quest to reclaim his birthright, Uhtred must tread a dangerous path between both sides if he is to play his part in the birth of a new nation and, ultimately, recapture his ancestral lands.
Directed by: Nick Murphy, Anthony Byrne, Ben Chanan, Peter Hoar
Written by: Stephen Butchard, based on Bernard Cornwell’s The Saxon Stories
Cast: Alexander Dreymon, David Dawson, Jason Flemyng and Matthew Macfadyen - Zábava
The music though.. i mean, BEAUTIFUL actors, mesmerizing characters, satisfying production, but that damn music.. haunting, so eerie, so beautiful..
The Last Kingdom music is on CZcams, Eivor Plassdottir (spelling might be wrong, sorry) sings the opening title song.
My favorite author! I emailed him when I was in sixth grade, and got a reply back directly from him! Not saving it so many years ago is something I'll always regret :/
The BBC do it justice... Fantastic viewing
Really looking forward to seeing Bernard Cornwell's books come to life!
Watched the first episode last night - brilliant!
Captivating! Can't wait for season 2
Have u watched until season 4, Lord?
I've read all the books - several times - but that hasn't spoiled my enjoyment of the TV series. I m well into Season 4 now and it just keeps getting better.
I wonder if one day any TV company will make a series based on Bernard's Grail Quest novels. If anything they are even better than Last Kingdom.
Very good adaption, lots of fun to watch. what a shame there'll be only 8 episodes. 😞
Great actors, great scenery... 👍
wow you were way off
I'm really enjoying the series, can't wait for next episode.
It's an excellent series. I just heard of it and watched the first three episodes on-demand back to back. I can't wait for the rest of it and look forward to Season 2!!
Bernard, I love your books, all of them, so much that the video already exists in my head from Stonehenge onward. Nothing that was a casualty of modern cinema (DAMM enjoyable!) could detract from what is on my book shelf. Sharpe, Starbuck, Redcoats loose in the Colonies, Its all the best. Cheers from Chesapeake Bay.
LOVE the Starbuck series as well!! Wish he would have finished them, wished they could have made them into a series. Although, in today's climate, I suspect that will not be likely.
my favorite serie ever!! I can't wait to see the 2 season..
So good so far
Beautiful writing!
Awesome books! , Awesome series!
LOVE THIS SO MUCH
wanted this legend analyzing the best battles of Kingdom manga from Hara Yasuhisa
The books are amazing. Can't wait to get my head into book 11
Bernard Cornwell is simply brilliant!
I am enjoying the series so far, but it was a little disappointing not to getting why Bebbanburg was really, really important at the time! A bit strange to see Uthred grow up in the first episode as well, but it is a tv-series I hope you are doing everything to stay a bit true to the books! :)
***** In Norway a street is called a gate!
That was a fun interview to watch :D and very interesting. I like Uhtred too ^^ love him in fact.
Even though the show doesn't live up to the books (IMO), it is still a very good show and I'm looking forward to season 2
Me: There's a TV series that's called "The Last Kingdom" and it's based on the books by Bernard Cornwell.
Boyfriend's Dad: I have all the books.
Me: Don't you want to watch it?
Boyfriend's Dad: I don't need to, I have all the books.
Lend me the books... :(
+Beatrice Villaflor the books are better T_T the series semi sucks
+Sss bbB (MasterGG) Bang on, TV shows always make the books seem so much better...the show is too watered down.
T___T
I want the books...
TV version is nothing like the books, if i hadn't read the books id probably enjoy tv show, but its hard to enjoy something when characters and events are totally left out or altered so much its actually confusing! Ok uhtred has dark hair instead of blonde - no prbs wi that! But fighting Leofric to the death! When in the book he fights a massive warrior called Steapa (oddas minder) so its fitting & would be 'to the death' , but uhtred v Leofric!? Not just pals but quite evenly matched! Whereas Steapa would've killed uhtred- but vikings attack breaking up the fight (why that was changed baffles me,) that isn't leaving stuff out - thats adding stuff that's wrong! Why not leave it as it was in book, it wd take same amount of time , so its pointless, Also unnecessary- changing way Uhtred beats Ubba, in book he slips on someones guts making it believable a 20yr old beats a seasoned viking warlord! But no, tv changes it to uhtred beating ubba thru skill!! Unrealistic & pointless change. So many pointless changes. (Not leaving stuff out! But changing!! Read the books peeps they are excellent.
The series is so much better than the books... the music by eivor... and the rawness of the portrayal of life back then...
Write some more books please 🙏🏽 need a few more seasons
Just finished reading Sharpe's Triumph. It was a great fun read. I gotta watch this show but I don't really want to fork over for a TV license.
I've heard that a film on the battle of agincourt is possibly going to be done. which is a really good book by cornwell
Anglo-Saxons with rectangular shields and later period chainmail lol BBC needs to update its wardrobe. It is still highly watchable and good entertainment the best historical drama of its kind even with all the inaccuracies better than vikings
Didn't they change them in later seasons?
I like to think that they took what they could from the battlefields and decorated them in Saxon colours.
Best TV-show of this year!!! Already in my top 5.
It takes out the best of Vikings and Game of Thrones.
The only bad thing about this show is its shortness (8 episodes),
I hope the 2nd season will get at least 12.
Read the warlord series now reading the sharpes
Bernard Cornwell, the Battle of Brunanburgh 937 in one of your novels, was in Brinsworth Rotherham not ware you said it was😬😬 you are a great storey teller and good researcher, but you got this one wrong, just ask historian Michael Woods and read Albert Burns narrative on one of the most important battles in the British Isles
The first episode was good apart from the fact that half of the first book had been taken out
+TheBrassHole I agree, it is strange for people that have not read the books, my friend (whom haven't read them) got all fussed up about him taking such a liking towards Ragnar and the Danes!
Why is this not on in Canada!!!!
+drewbie101 Heck, it's not even in Britain yet
+Matt Dean In a few days it is. XD
beside some problems in the clothes deparment (really, leather armour in a viking, and whats up with that weird dane helmets, real "viking" helmets are waaay cooler and good looking that that thing) this series is brilliant, the cinematography is excelent, the acting quite good and the unexpected humor is really funny, Im quite hype for the second season
nachoolo explain to me what a "Viking helmet" looks like and why leather armor is inaccurate?
The acting is very good, so much better than what people who haven't spent many years perfecting their craft could do.
Great show! I've read the first 5 books of The Saxon Stories so far and I'd like to ask if it's gonna be 1 season per book like it's with Game of Thrones. I mean will those 8 episodes that are announced be about the 1st book of the saxon stories?
+megaloss I think they said it was going to be two books over the first season!
cheers mate for the response! I know I am asking a lot but do you have the source of that? peace bro!
Is it just me (Very probable) or does the intro music sound a bit like "In the air tonight"?
Is that a saxon hoverboard at the start
I am really enjoying the series but who designed serpent breaths hilt it just doesn't look right and why does Uthred have her slung across his back
Late, I know but I just wanted to share a thought with you.
In a Cadfael story, something similar happened with there being a large jewel on the end of a sword that was also a family heirloom .
So maybe it is not such an unusual thing to do.?
I expect that the author's will have done a lot of research in to this, before committing it to paper,and I accept their superior knowledge.
Uhtred has to be very agile so that is one reason for having the sword across his back maybe it is a thing that Uhtred's had made specially for himself.
I'm suspending my disbelief and just enjoying the show.
This was a great show, but damn that ending...brutal blow to the gut
#IamSaxon
i real one to no bernard conwells take on saxson people after 1066
In the book, Uhtred is blonde.
interview that lasts a bit over 2 minutes thats not an interview thats a bad joke
Hes not a big of fan of Christians I take it.
Good show though :)
+VL G "Hes not a big fan of Christians" Not without good reason.
+Darkness7508 Oh you neopagans are full of shit. If your Paganism was so good why didn't it last? Fucking heathens.
+Tojetaj Nikolic Your religion is paganism under a different skin. You can keep saying that the Trinity is one god but it's not true.
KamikazethecatII Glad you are a expert on Serbian Orthodoxy.
Tojetaj Nikolic Me too.
Living vicariously through your hero means that, among other things, he gets all the women all of the time and no other appealing male characters' storyline is ever fully developed because they might overshadow Uhtred. There was something extremely old-fashioned about all of this... I was thankful the series updated some of these problematic aspects a little, though the story remains too Uhtred-centric for my liking - one of its only major flaws, IMO... but it's a matter of subjective preference when it comes to narrative choices and this is simply my personal opinion on the matter.
2:00 - well actually viking blood isnt in england as a dna survey found, an anglo-saxon dna is only 5%.
Us English are therefore modern celts, who taught the world our new language after creating it!
Danes vs Saxons and at the end NATHAN ROTHSCHILD a KHAZARIAN JEW conquered England and the world, without firing one single shot.
The Khazar theory is false.
+KamikazethecatII ASHKENAZI = KHAZARIAN
Sephardic I know what the theory says, it's incorrect. Ashkenazi Jews are a mix of Jews and Europeans. I believe what happened was Jewish merchants came to the Roman Empire and married the local woman.
+frank slater You're such a SHEEP. In 1815, Nathan Rothschild stated: "I care not what puppet is placed upon the throne of England to rule the Empire on which the sun never sets. The man who controls the British money supply controls the British Empire, and I control the British money supply. "I'm NOT a "conspiratorially minded" and all you idiot. I'm stating what truly happened in history. The world is not this multi-faceted, multi-layered intricate place; It's that simple: ; If you control the money issuance of nations you control it , history is written by the winners. STOP BEING A SHEEPLE AND WAKE UP MORON.
Sephardic Why are you trying to use those quotes...
I feel sorry for Cornwell: he lived long enough to see his amazing work turn in shit. WTF is this series? Its extremely unfaithful to the books. I went from OMG LAST KINGDOM THIS IS NOT HAPPENING to FUCK THAT SHIT BACK TO THE BOOKS. Everyone involved in this series failed with Uhtred.
good books, horrible show