With the success the History Channel has had with it's Vikings television series, they've decided to try their hand at a medieval series. It recently announced that it will be making a 10-episode series called Knightfall, which will follow the Templar Knights in their quest to find the Holy Grail. It will be a historically accurate telling of their quest to find the golden chalice, meaning that it won't be knights in shining armor and all of the romanticism that is usually given to these stories, but rather it will be a much bloodier and truer telling of these stories. Don Handfield and Richard Rayner are the two people who created the series for the History Channel, and the show's executive producers will be Dominic Minghella (who is the program's showrunner) and Jeremy Renner. With Renner's involvement with Kightfall, it's quite possible that we may even see him make an appearance at some point in the story.
Some of the characters that the show will be focusing on are Sir Landry (played by Tom Cullen), a knight that lost his faith in God after the failed Crusade and losing the Grail. However, new rumors of the Grail's existence help bring him back to the cause. Parsifal (played by Bobby Schofield) joins the Templar Knights seeking revenge (for what, we'll have to find out once it airs) but finds himself being called up for a higher purpose. Gawain (played by Padraic Delaney) is a once-feared swordsman with an uncertain future, but stands with the Templar Knights. Tancrede (played by Simon Merrels) is a battle scarred sergeant that is fanatical on reclaiming the Holy Grail.
The show will also focus on the politics of the age and show us King Phillip and Queen Joan of Navarre forging an alliance with France through a wedding involving daughter Isabella. The inclusion of France's role in the Templar Knight's story is interesting, and makes me wonder if the series will end when with King Phillip IV ordering the death of the Templar Knights, an order which was sanctioned by the Pope of that time period, and also gave us the superstition regarding Friday the 13th. We'll just have to wait and find out.
Knightfall will premier late 2016.
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