Original Vikings Creator Asked Just One Thing Of Valhalla Showrunner
Vikings: Valhalla creator Jeb Stuart has one goal from the original's showrunner: make it feel nostalgic. Netflix picked up Valhalla back in 2019, moving the franchise away from History, where the original Vikings ran for five and a half seasons before wrapping up season 6 on Amazon Prime Video. Despite delays in production due to the COVID-19 pandemic, two seasons of the spinoff series have finished filming, and the massive 24-episode season 1 is expected to release on Netflix on February 25, 2022.
Technically a sequel to the successful History series chronologically, Vikings: Valhalla is set 100 years after Ragnar Lothbrok's excursion into England and other foreign lands. It will focus on the end of the Viking Age and follow characters such as famed explored Leif Eriksson (portrayed by Sam Corlett), his sister Freydis Eriksdotter (Frida Gustavsson), Emma of Normandy (Laura Berlin), and king Harald Hardrada (Leo Suter) as they clash with English royals. As is customary of the Vikings saga, Valhalla promises brutally violent battles and uneasy politics, which Executive Producer and original creator Michael Hirst wants to be timeless.
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Speaking to Polygon, Stuart, who is best known as a writer for Die Hard and The Fugitive, recalls a conversation with Hirst about the spinoff series and what he wanted viewers to take away from it. Hirst told Stuart the series should feel nostalgic. Despite the somewhat cryptic advice, Stuart says, "I [knew] what he meant immediately." Stuart explained that he wants fans to look back on both series and reflect on a time when things were as simple as "killing Saxons" and think of the "purity of that moment." Read Stuart's
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