EXCLUSIVE: James Norton and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau‘s King & Conqueror will play on Prime Video within the U.S. and HBO Max in a slew of territories after Paramount World sealed a raft of offers for the soon-to-launch historic epic.
The drama stars Norton as Harold, Earl of Wessex, reverse Coster-Waldau as William, Duke of Normandy, two males destined to conflict on the Battle of Hastings. Emily Beecham performs Edith Swan-neck and Clémence Poésy stars as Matilda, their respective wives. The drama tells the story of the individuals, dynasties and occasions that went on to form historical past.
The sequence is produced by Rabbit Monitor Photos, the label that Norton runs with Kitty Kaletsky, alongside The Growth Partnership, Shepherd Content material, RVK Studios and CBS Studios, in affiliation with the BBC, which has the UK rights and launches the present later this month. The first trailer dropped final week.
Paramount World Content material Distribution is throughout gross sales and has racked up offers spanning over 100 territories. Prime Video has taken it for the U.S. and HBO Max will present the 1066 drama within the Nordics, Iberia, Southeast Asia, the Netherlands, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.
PGCD held a packed buyers-only screening for King & Conqueror – the opening episode of which is directed by Baltasar Kormákur – on the London Screenings in February.
It clearly struck a chord with the assembled acquisitions folks. SBS has acquired it for Australia and JioHotstar for India. It has additionally bought to consumers together with Showcase and StackTV (Canada), M-Internet (Africa), Streamz and Be TV (Belgium), Cosmote TV (Greece), Sure and Sizzling (Israel), Sky NZ (New Zealand), and LRT (Lithuania).
The offers come forward of a glitzy London premiere for the sequence, subsequent week.
“King & Conqueror is a sweeping, cinematic drama with world enchantment, and we’re thrilled to see such sturdy demand from main platforms all over the world,” says Lisa Kramer, President of Worldwide Content material Licensing at PGCD. “Compelling storytelling, distinctive forged, and daring inventive imaginative and prescient make it a standout sequence that resonates throughout markets and cultures.”
