One of the actors was saying that the sequence that he loved most is the death of King Edmund. But until they did become Christians they were enemies.Ī: For me, Uhtred gives me a chance to be nasty about Christianity. What comes out in later episodes is the religious conflict and that’s obviously crucial in the end because Alfred would accept the Danes if they became Christians. Q: How far did you know the story would run?Ī: I know it ends in 937 with the Battle of Brunanburh. If they don’t like it then that’s it.įrom my point of view, there are nine books so far and I have to start the tenth book.Īlthough, quite seriously I have been saying about for three weeks, ‘I don’t know how to start this new book.’ Q: Do you know how many more series there will be is there a grand plan?Ī: There’s a grand plan but that is more or less up to the viewers as to whether they like it and if they like it they will commission more. I thought he was terrific, absolutely terrific. I am sure I’ll begin to see Alexander in my head from now on when I write.Ī: No. Seriously, when I wrote the Sharpe books after I’d seen the movies it changed the way I wrote them. Q: Having watched the first episode, is it how you imagined it’d look?Ī: Not entirely but I found it incredibly compelling and I am sure that is how I will see the characters going forward. I have also just discovered a website where you can get the cricket live so I watch the Ashes series and get no work done at all! I live in the US now so we just tend to watch the news and 60 Minutes. I did work in television for 11 years and that mostly cured me. I watch it thinking, ‘Why didn’t I trim down the story like that?’ It would have been a shorter bloody book! I loved it.Ī: We don’t watch a great deal. Q: Is it difficult to watch the series, with the screenplay speeding up the story and omitting certain characters?Ī: They have constraints I don’t have and I knew that. Now he must choose a side and play his part in the birth of a nation, alongside the man who would become known as King Alfred the Great. He is adopted by a Viking warlord and raised to manhood as a Dane. Uhtred is a Saxon boy, born into the 9th Century English aristocracy, but orphaned at ten. The BBC’s The Last Kingdom series, also known as The Warrior Chronicles, is based on Bernard Cornwell’s bestselling medieval epic. The bestselling author Bernard Cornwell discusses how he mixed history with fiction to create his novels.
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