Leif, Freydis, and Harald are on the run in season two of Netflix’s Vikings: Valhalla. The lengthy season two trailer reveals there’s a bounty on their heads, yet Prince Harald Sigurdsson remains determined to sit on the throne of Norway.
In order to survive and rebuild their legacies, they’ll need to reinvent themselves.
The new trailer arrived along with a season two poster featuring series stars Leo Suter as Prince Harald Sigurdsson, Sam Corlett as Leif Eriksson, and Frida Gustavsson as Freydis Eriksdotter. Laura Berlin, David Oakes, Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson, Bradley Freegard, and Hayat Kamille also star.
The eight-episode second season premieres on January 12, 2023.
“The whole concept of Season 2 is that we take these three heroes who are in Scandinavia and blow them out of their comfort zones,” explained series creator/showrunner Jeb Stuart in an interview with Netflix’s Tudum. “Season 2 for Harald and Leif is...
In order to survive and rebuild their legacies, they’ll need to reinvent themselves.
The new trailer arrived along with a season two poster featuring series stars Leo Suter as Prince Harald Sigurdsson, Sam Corlett as Leif Eriksson, and Frida Gustavsson as Freydis Eriksdotter. Laura Berlin, David Oakes, Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson, Bradley Freegard, and Hayat Kamille also star.
The eight-episode second season premieres on January 12, 2023.
“The whole concept of Season 2 is that we take these three heroes who are in Scandinavia and blow them out of their comfort zones,” explained series creator/showrunner Jeb Stuart in an interview with Netflix’s Tudum. “Season 2 for Harald and Leif is...
- 12/14/2022
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
“Vikings: Valhalla” returns with its second season Jan. 12, but Variety has the exclusive first look at the “Vikings” prequel’s Season 2 trailer to tide fans over for another month.
Based on the History Channel series “Vikings” created by Michael Hirst, “Vikings: Valhalla” is set over a thousand years ago in the early 11th century and chronicles the heroic adventures of some of the most famous Vikings who ever lived — the legendary explorer Leif Eriksson (Sam Corlett), his fiery and headstrong sister Freydis Eriksdotter (Frida Gustavsson) and the ambitious Nordic prince Harald Sigurdsson (Leo Suter).
The second season, which consists of eight episodes running 49 minutes each, finds our heroes shortly after the tragic fall of Kattegat; an event that has shattered their dreams and altered their destinies, per Netflix’s official description. Finding themselves suddenly fugitives in Scandinavia they are forced to test their ambitions and courage in worlds beyond the fjords of Kattegat.
Based on the History Channel series “Vikings” created by Michael Hirst, “Vikings: Valhalla” is set over a thousand years ago in the early 11th century and chronicles the heroic adventures of some of the most famous Vikings who ever lived — the legendary explorer Leif Eriksson (Sam Corlett), his fiery and headstrong sister Freydis Eriksdotter (Frida Gustavsson) and the ambitious Nordic prince Harald Sigurdsson (Leo Suter).
The second season, which consists of eight episodes running 49 minutes each, finds our heroes shortly after the tragic fall of Kattegat; an event that has shattered their dreams and altered their destinies, per Netflix’s official description. Finding themselves suddenly fugitives in Scandinavia they are forced to test their ambitions and courage in worlds beyond the fjords of Kattegat.
- 12/14/2022
- by Jennifer Maas
- Variety Film + TV
“Vikings: Valhalla,” the upcoming follow-up to the History Channel’s recently concluded epic “Vikings” saga, has confirmed its cast members. The sequel, which is set in the 11th century (100 years after the events of its predecessor), will debut exclusively on Netflix. MGM Television is returning to produce.
Portraying some of the most famous Norse warriors that ever lived on their legendary adventures are actors Sam Corlett (Leif Erikkson), Frida Gustavsson (Freydis Eriksdotter), Leo Suter (Harald Sigurdsson), Bradley Freegard (King Canute), Jóhannes Jóhannesson (Olaf Haraldson), Laura Berlin (Emma of Normandy), David Oakes (Earl Godwin) and Caroline Henderson (Jarl Haakon). Actors slated for recurring roles include Pollyanna McIntosh as the calculating and ambitious Queen Ælfgifu of Denmark and Asbjørn Krogh Nissen as Jarl Kåre, described only as a “threat to the old pagan ways.”
“Vikings” debuted on the History Channel in 2013 and was notably the network’s first attempt at original scripted programming.
Portraying some of the most famous Norse warriors that ever lived on their legendary adventures are actors Sam Corlett (Leif Erikkson), Frida Gustavsson (Freydis Eriksdotter), Leo Suter (Harald Sigurdsson), Bradley Freegard (King Canute), Jóhannes Jóhannesson (Olaf Haraldson), Laura Berlin (Emma of Normandy), David Oakes (Earl Godwin) and Caroline Henderson (Jarl Haakon). Actors slated for recurring roles include Pollyanna McIntosh as the calculating and ambitious Queen Ælfgifu of Denmark and Asbjørn Krogh Nissen as Jarl Kåre, described only as a “threat to the old pagan ways.”
“Vikings” debuted on the History Channel in 2013 and was notably the network’s first attempt at original scripted programming.
- 1/26/2021
- by Mónica Marie Zorrilla
- Variety Film + TV
“Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” alum Sam Corlett has been cast in the leading role of Leif Eriksson, one of the most famous vikings ever, in Netflix’s “Vikings: Valhalla,” the streaming service said Tuesday.
Per Netflix, the series, which is a spinoff of the History Channel’s “Vikings,” begins in the early 11th century and chronicles the legendary adventures of some of the most famous Vikings who ever lived – Leif Eriksson, Freydis Eriksdotter, Harald Hardrada and the Norman King William the Conqueror. These men and women will blaze a path as they fight for survival in the ever-changing and evolving world.
Corlett’s Leif Eriksson is described as, “A Greenlander, raised on the outer fringes of the known world, Leif comes from a tightly-knit family steeped in the old pagan beliefs. An intrepid sailor and physically tough, Leif is our entry into a Viking world in the throes of violent change.
Per Netflix, the series, which is a spinoff of the History Channel’s “Vikings,” begins in the early 11th century and chronicles the legendary adventures of some of the most famous Vikings who ever lived – Leif Eriksson, Freydis Eriksdotter, Harald Hardrada and the Norman King William the Conqueror. These men and women will blaze a path as they fight for survival in the ever-changing and evolving world.
Corlett’s Leif Eriksson is described as, “A Greenlander, raised on the outer fringes of the known world, Leif comes from a tightly-knit family steeped in the old pagan beliefs. An intrepid sailor and physically tough, Leif is our entry into a Viking world in the throes of violent change.
- 1/26/2021
- by Jennifer Maas
- The Wrap
Netflix has set the cast for Vikings: Valhalla, a sequel to History’s hit series, from Vikings creator Michael Hirst and studio MGM Television. Sam Corlett (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina), Frida Gustavsson (Swoon), Leo Suter (The Liberator), Bradley Freegard (Keeping Faith), Jóhannes Jóhannesson (Cursed), Laura Berlin (Immenhof – The Adventure of a Summer), David Oakes (The Pillars of the Earth) and Caroline Henderson (Tuya Siempre) are set as series regulars and Pollyanna McIntosh and Asbjørn Krogh Nissen will recur. A premiere date has not yet been set but it’s expected to debut in late 2021 or 2022.
Vikings: Valhalla begins in the early 11th century and chronicles the legendary adventures of some of the most famous Vikings who ever lived – Leif Eriksson, Freydis Eriksdotter, Harald Hardrada and the Norman King William the Conqueror. These men and women will blaze a path as they fight for survival in the ever changing and evolving world.
Vikings: Valhalla begins in the early 11th century and chronicles the legendary adventures of some of the most famous Vikings who ever lived – Leif Eriksson, Freydis Eriksdotter, Harald Hardrada and the Norman King William the Conqueror. These men and women will blaze a path as they fight for survival in the ever changing and evolving world.
- 1/26/2021
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Other nominees include Glassland, I Used To Live Here, Noble and Song of the Sea.Scroll down for full list of nominations
The Irish Film & Television Academy has announced the nominees for the Ifta Film and Drama Awards, set to take place on May 24 at Dublin’s Mansion House.
Lenny Abrahamson’s music comedy Frank and Terry McMahon’s girtty drama Patrick’s Day lead the pack with nine nominations each.
Gerard Barrett drama Glassland, which played at Sundance in January, follows with six nominations.
Films with three nominations apiece include Frank Berry’s I Used To Live Here, Tomm Moore’s Oscar-nominated animation Song of the Sea, and Stephen Bradley’s biopic Noble.
In the best actor cateogy, Patrick’s Day’s Moe Dunford will go head to head with A-listers Colin Farrell (Miss Julie) and Michael Fassbender (Frank) as well as Transformers star Jack Reynor (Glassland).
As previously announced, the annual...
The Irish Film & Television Academy has announced the nominees for the Ifta Film and Drama Awards, set to take place on May 24 at Dublin’s Mansion House.
Lenny Abrahamson’s music comedy Frank and Terry McMahon’s girtty drama Patrick’s Day lead the pack with nine nominations each.
Gerard Barrett drama Glassland, which played at Sundance in January, follows with six nominations.
Films with three nominations apiece include Frank Berry’s I Used To Live Here, Tomm Moore’s Oscar-nominated animation Song of the Sea, and Stephen Bradley’s biopic Noble.
In the best actor cateogy, Patrick’s Day’s Moe Dunford will go head to head with A-listers Colin Farrell (Miss Julie) and Michael Fassbender (Frank) as well as Transformers star Jack Reynor (Glassland).
As previously announced, the annual...
- 4/29/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Celtic crime thriller was Ireland’s Oscar submission.
Paris-based Lagardère Entertainment has snapped up distribution rights to Irish crime thriller An Bronntanas (The Gift) and will be selling the five-part miniseries at Miptv in Cannes next week.
The film version of An Bronntanas was Ireland’s submission to the Best Foreign-Language category of the Oscars and won the jury’s special award at last month’s Boston Irish Film Festival.
When the series was broadcast on Ireland’s TG4 at the end of last year it scored a six-fold audience increase among 15-34s
Directed by Tom Collins, and produced by Ciarán Ó Cofaigh of Rosg and Tom Collins, An Bronntanas stars Dara Devaney, John Finn, Owen McDonnell, Michelle Beamish, Pól Ó Gríofa, Charlotte Bradley and Januscz Sheagall. The script was written by Joe O’Byrne, Paul Walker, Eoin McNamee and Tom Collins.
The film was primarily shot in Irish in Connemara, County Galway...
Paris-based Lagardère Entertainment has snapped up distribution rights to Irish crime thriller An Bronntanas (The Gift) and will be selling the five-part miniseries at Miptv in Cannes next week.
The film version of An Bronntanas was Ireland’s submission to the Best Foreign-Language category of the Oscars and won the jury’s special award at last month’s Boston Irish Film Festival.
When the series was broadcast on Ireland’s TG4 at the end of last year it scored a six-fold audience increase among 15-34s
Directed by Tom Collins, and produced by Ciarán Ó Cofaigh of Rosg and Tom Collins, An Bronntanas stars Dara Devaney, John Finn, Owen McDonnell, Michelle Beamish, Pól Ó Gríofa, Charlotte Bradley and Januscz Sheagall. The script was written by Joe O’Byrne, Paul Walker, Eoin McNamee and Tom Collins.
The film was primarily shot in Irish in Connemara, County Galway...
- 4/9/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Actress Saoirse Ronan and director Jim Sheridan among selection committee to submit thriller based around a lifeboat crew.
The Irish Film & Television Academy (Ifta) has submitted An Bronntanas as Ireland’s submission for the Foreign Language category at the 87th Academy Awards.
Directed by Tom Collins, and produced by Ciarán Ó Cofaigh of Rosg and Tom Collins, An Bronntanas stars Dara Devaney, John Finn , Owen McDonnell, Michelle Beamish, Pól Ó Gríofa, Charlotte Bradley and Januscz Sheagall. The script was written by Joe O’Byrne, Paul Walker, Eoin McNamee and Tom Collins.
The film was primarily shot in Irish in Connemara, County Galway by cinematographer Cian de Buitléar. The film premiered as the closing film of the Galway Film Fleadh earlier this year.
An Bronntanas (The Gift) is a contemporary thriller set against the backdrop of a local independent lifeboat crew working off the coast of Connemara, on the west of Ireland. The rescue...
The Irish Film & Television Academy (Ifta) has submitted An Bronntanas as Ireland’s submission for the Foreign Language category at the 87th Academy Awards.
Directed by Tom Collins, and produced by Ciarán Ó Cofaigh of Rosg and Tom Collins, An Bronntanas stars Dara Devaney, John Finn , Owen McDonnell, Michelle Beamish, Pól Ó Gríofa, Charlotte Bradley and Januscz Sheagall. The script was written by Joe O’Byrne, Paul Walker, Eoin McNamee and Tom Collins.
The film was primarily shot in Irish in Connemara, County Galway by cinematographer Cian de Buitléar. The film premiered as the closing film of the Galway Film Fleadh earlier this year.
An Bronntanas (The Gift) is a contemporary thriller set against the backdrop of a local independent lifeboat crew working off the coast of Connemara, on the west of Ireland. The rescue...
- 10/9/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
There are a lot of beautiful shots in Michael Winterbottom's new film "I Want You", which screened at the Berlin Film Festival, but they are the picture's only redeemable feature.
This visually interesting film filled with attractive, hip, young actors should attract a young niche audience at first, but word-of-mouth will eventually hinge on one risky question: Will Winterbottom's target audience be so self-absorbed as to identify with these good-looking characters tormented by life, or will moviegoers be intelligent enough to recognize it all as a fake?
Martin (Alessandro Nivola) is a young stranger with a dark past who returns to the English seaside town of Haven, where he begins haunting his long-lost love Helen (Rachel Weisz) despite conditions of his parole that order him to stay away from her.
Yes, he is obsessed with her, and why shouldn't he be? She is very cute, after all.
But Martin is not the only one obsessed with Helen: Honda (Luka Petrusic), a young boy who refuses to speak -- yes, he too has been traumatized -- stalks her, secretly recording her lovemaking with long-distance mikes. Honda's big sister Smokey (Labina Mitevska), is a rock singer who sleeps around. We don't know whether she has been traumatized or not, but it's a safe guess she has been.
There are a couple real, even haunting, surprises at the end, but long before that, the film grows tedious and the characters be-come too obviously fake.
Winterbottom ("Welcome to Sarajevo") shoots the entire film as if it was one big montage sequence. He spends a lot of time on close-ups, comings and goings and running over fields of pebbles or through fields of grain -- for no apparent reason.
The audience soon realizes that this pseudo-artsy aesthetic is only a smoke screen for a deeper failure: Winterbottom (or screenwriter Eoin McNamee) doesn't know his characters. He has only pasted them together from a list of trendy trauma scenarios.
The characters to him, and to us, are like nameless faces in a TV commercial.
When the film begins to suggest that behind all these psychological traumata is some kind of corrupt, off-kilter modern world, Winterbottom doesn't come off as an angry young man, only as an angry young director of commercials.
Having said that, all performances and technical credits -- especially the gorgeous, always-engaging camerawork of Slawo-mir Idziak, aided tremendously by editor Trevor Waite and lavish production design by Mark Tildesley -- are polished to perfection.
Also appealing is the cast: Weisz is beautiful and sexy, Nivola looks good in a three-day beard, and young Petrusic is a scrawny, vulnerable young charmer. The hit of the film is Mitevska.
Winterbottom tries hard to paint a picture of fascinating young characters damaged by a corrupt society and burdened with a mysterious past. But he never succeeds in making contact with those characters, and in the end, the entire effort seems empty and precious.
I WANT YOU
PolyGram
Revolution Films
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Producer: Andrew Eaton
Executive producer: Stewart Till
Associate producer: Gina Carter
Screenplay: Eoin McNamee
Director of photography: Slawomir Idziak
Production designer: Mark Tildesley
Editor: Trevor Waite
Music: Adrian Johnston
Costume designer: Rachael Fleming
Color/stereo
Cast:
Helen: Rachel Weisz
Martin: Alessandro Nivola
Honda: Luka Petrusic
Smokey: Labina Mitevska
Amber: Carmen Ejogo
Bob: Ben Daniels
Old Man: Graham Crowden
Running time -- 87 minutes
No MPAA rating...
This visually interesting film filled with attractive, hip, young actors should attract a young niche audience at first, but word-of-mouth will eventually hinge on one risky question: Will Winterbottom's target audience be so self-absorbed as to identify with these good-looking characters tormented by life, or will moviegoers be intelligent enough to recognize it all as a fake?
Martin (Alessandro Nivola) is a young stranger with a dark past who returns to the English seaside town of Haven, where he begins haunting his long-lost love Helen (Rachel Weisz) despite conditions of his parole that order him to stay away from her.
Yes, he is obsessed with her, and why shouldn't he be? She is very cute, after all.
But Martin is not the only one obsessed with Helen: Honda (Luka Petrusic), a young boy who refuses to speak -- yes, he too has been traumatized -- stalks her, secretly recording her lovemaking with long-distance mikes. Honda's big sister Smokey (Labina Mitevska), is a rock singer who sleeps around. We don't know whether she has been traumatized or not, but it's a safe guess she has been.
There are a couple real, even haunting, surprises at the end, but long before that, the film grows tedious and the characters be-come too obviously fake.
Winterbottom ("Welcome to Sarajevo") shoots the entire film as if it was one big montage sequence. He spends a lot of time on close-ups, comings and goings and running over fields of pebbles or through fields of grain -- for no apparent reason.
The audience soon realizes that this pseudo-artsy aesthetic is only a smoke screen for a deeper failure: Winterbottom (or screenwriter Eoin McNamee) doesn't know his characters. He has only pasted them together from a list of trendy trauma scenarios.
The characters to him, and to us, are like nameless faces in a TV commercial.
When the film begins to suggest that behind all these psychological traumata is some kind of corrupt, off-kilter modern world, Winterbottom doesn't come off as an angry young man, only as an angry young director of commercials.
Having said that, all performances and technical credits -- especially the gorgeous, always-engaging camerawork of Slawo-mir Idziak, aided tremendously by editor Trevor Waite and lavish production design by Mark Tildesley -- are polished to perfection.
Also appealing is the cast: Weisz is beautiful and sexy, Nivola looks good in a three-day beard, and young Petrusic is a scrawny, vulnerable young charmer. The hit of the film is Mitevska.
Winterbottom tries hard to paint a picture of fascinating young characters damaged by a corrupt society and burdened with a mysterious past. But he never succeeds in making contact with those characters, and in the end, the entire effort seems empty and precious.
I WANT YOU
PolyGram
Revolution Films
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Producer: Andrew Eaton
Executive producer: Stewart Till
Associate producer: Gina Carter
Screenplay: Eoin McNamee
Director of photography: Slawomir Idziak
Production designer: Mark Tildesley
Editor: Trevor Waite
Music: Adrian Johnston
Costume designer: Rachael Fleming
Color/stereo
Cast:
Helen: Rachel Weisz
Martin: Alessandro Nivola
Honda: Luka Petrusic
Smokey: Labina Mitevska
Amber: Carmen Ejogo
Bob: Ben Daniels
Old Man: Graham Crowden
Running time -- 87 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 2/20/1998
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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