From first reading and initial chats with [lead director] Otto [Bathurst], we soon built a vision for the series. We’re not blessed with huge amounts of reference regarding post-Roman, Dark Age Britain, but we had Bernard Cornwell’s incredible novels – that’s enough inspiration for anyone to work with. It was clear that the books would need serious adaptions to align with our time and financial restraints, so we set out world-building from the ground up. The world we created was grounded, visceral and raw. The series is a mix of the epic and the intimate, and I tried to mirror this within the environments. It was tough – like, really tough – reimagining a world so far from our own, and that so little is really known about.
ENTERING CAER CADARN
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