First-look pictures of recent ITVX collection sees Iain De Caestecker as Arthur Pendragon
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ctor Iain De Caestecker will be seen embodying Arthur Pendragon in first-look pictures for a brand new collection which retells the Arthurian legend.
Upcoming ITVX collection The Winter King is predicated on Bernard Cornwell’s The Warlord Chronicles and can premiere on the streaming platform later this 12 months.
Set within the fifth century in a land full of warring factions and tribes, the collection follows outcast Pendragon as he turns into warrior chief King Arthur.
Scottish actor De Caestecker, recognized for his function in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., stars as Pendragon whereas Nathaniel Martello-White will play legendary Arthurian determine Merlin.
Newly-released pictures present De Caestecker as Arthur trying weary and crushed alongside Martello-White’s Merlin, wearing a light-coloured tunic.
Another image sees Arthur don a cloak with a fur-lined hood as he meets his future spouse Guinevere, performed by Jordan Alexandra.
Eddie Marsan, who featured within the 2008 comedy Happy-Go-Lucky, has been forged as High King Uther and is pictured donning blue robes and lengthy hair.
Other forged members embrace Daniel Ings as Owain, Ellie James as Nimue, Stuart Campbell as Derfel, Valene Kane as Morgan and Simon Merrells as Gundleus.
Produced by Sony Pictures Television-owned Bad Wolf, which has produced three seasons of His Dark Materials, the collection was shot in places throughout Wales and the West Country.
Kate Brooke and Ed Whitmore tailored Cornwell’s The Warlord Chronicles to create the collection, with each appearing as government producers on the present.