THE O'NEILL EPIC TV SAGA ON
IRISH 16TH CENTURY DYNASTY
We are starting the week after our massive list of all the epic shows to expect till the end of the year, with yet another truly epic project: as Variety reports, Aidan Gillen is set to star in new eight episode epic TV series THE
O'NEILL on Gaelic greatest hero Hugh O'Neill. Stephen Saint Leger of Vikings and Barbarians will helm. Tim Loane (Versailles, Das Boot) will be the show runner for Dublin's Revolution Media.
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| Aiden Gillen will star in the series |
THE O'NEILL follows Ireland’s O’Neill dynasty, its most powerful Gaelic
lordship, as in 1560 a nine year old Hugh O’Neill is taken from his
native Ireland and groomed as an English Lord at the English Court where
he forms a tight bond with the future Queen Elizabeth I, only 10 years
his senior.
Sent back to Ireland after he came of age to govern for the crown, he
has to decide between becoming an English landlord or a Gaelic warlord.
His decision would mark the greatest threat to England sovereignty until
WWII. Aidan Gillen will play Sir Henry Bagnal, Marshall of Elizabeth
I’s Royal Irish Army and O’Neill’s bitter arch enemy. Hugh O’Neill
managed to unite the clans and start the Nine Years War becoming a sort
of a
rock star for the people of Europe of that time. Many of the clans
in the series will have female leaders such as Ineen Dubh of the
O’Donnells and Grace O’Malley, the Pirate Queen of The O’Malley,
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| The O'Neill is envisioned as a four season TV series |
