ROYAL KILL LIST SERIES
WITH JOSEPH FIENNES, JARED HARRIS
Sky History has announced work on three part docu historical mini series ROYAL KILL LIST which goes back to January 1649, when for the first and only time, a British monarch, King Charles I, was publicly executed,
having been tried and convicted of treason by Parliament. This heralded ten years of Britain as a republic before, in May 1660, the monarchy was restored with the accession of King Charles II.
While publicly planning his own lavish coronation to take place the following year, in April 1661, the new king had, behind the scenes, ordered an exhaustive search for the death warrant ordering his father’s execution. On finding it and the 59 signatories appended to it, Charles ordered the biggest manhunt in royal history.
Told through dramatic reconstruction, with the actors serving as primary storytellers – Sheila Atim for the Royalists, Jared Harris for the Regicides, and Joseph 
Fiennes for King Charles II – the mini-series plays out as a Jacobean tragedy detailing the king’s lifelong obsession to hunt down, try and kill all those responsible for his father’s execution and his own desperate flight into exile.
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| It will be a three part docu series |
Fiennes for King Charles II – the mini-series plays out as a Jacobean tragedy detailing the king’s lifelong obsession to hunt down, try and kill all those responsible for his father’s execution and his own desperate flight into exile.
Why is it that Western Europe and the BBC always run down their monarchy and kings of yore, whereas Russian epics always exalt their tsars and empresses?
ReplyDeleteBecause Russians have a history to be proud of while the Brits, as invaders, enslavers and violent colonizers, don't. British national spirit is based on being the conquerors, while Russians more lean towards basing their national spirit on the hardships they had to go through, not just the toils or ordinary people and victims of many attacks and wars, but also of their rulers who had to fight the whole world to build their countries, whereas the Brits were breaking other countries to build their own.
DeleteGood point. Now I understand, British, Spanish, and British monarchs are portrayed as evil beings because they ruled empires. It’s not anti-monarchy but anti-colonialism. And yet, going back to Russian epic, I never see one promoting the last tsars. From Alexander I to Nicky Romanov there are no benevolent portraits of those sovereigns. I wonder what they would do with Pavel I.
DeleteI think they have not yet arrived to the point when they will portray the newer tsars, they are still preoccupied with the biggest ones. And I guess they stick to the biggest stars like Brits to Elizabeth I. We also don't have films nor series on some of our really bad kings, I remember that one of the Obrenovic kings was a piece of royal shit, cannot remember which one, yet we rarely read about him in our books. But then again we prefer our socialist history to the royal one and when it is royal one we stick more to the preOttoman one, the Nemanjic dynasty. Guess Russians do the same.
DeleteThe title alone sounds like an olden day Sopranos mob story lol. I wonder if we'll get this on one of our streamers. I just canceled Hulu, so hopefully not on that one if we do.
ReplyDeleteBye, bye to Hulu, it was nice knowing you lol
DeleteIt wasn’t nice knowing them lol. I often forgot we even had it so I was paying to watch like one movie or program every month or two. Such a waste.
DeleteSo sad. They don't have a lot of their originals, but they do stream network programmes.
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