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Just over a year after epic drama Vikings came to a close, a new spin-off series titled Vikings: Valhalla<\/a> is preparing to launch on Netflix<\/a> \u2013 set around a century after events of the previous show.<\/p>\n This time around, Die Hard and The Fugitive screenwriter Jeb Stuart takes over as showrunner from Vikings creator Michael Hirst, and he explained how the former boss had just one piece of advice for him when it came to writing the show.<\/p>\n \u201cI developed the show with Michael earlier, so I knew Michael pretty well,\u201d he explained in an exclusive interview with RadioTimes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd actually his only piece of advice for the whole situation was that he wanted to feel a sense of nostalgia at the end of the show. And I think that at first I was a little like, \u2018Nostalgia?\u2019 I don\u2019t think of that and Vikings in the same sentence very often!<\/p>\n \u201cBut I think whereas his show really was the start of the Viking era, as we move toward the end of the Viking era, and as William the Conqueror and things suddenly stopped a lot of that egalitarian society that we really love in a Vikings show, that went away.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd so I understand what Michael is trying to say, in terms of, you know, when this whole Viking story is over, we should really look back on this very brutal period and say, \u2018Gosh, things were pretty good back then.’\u201d<\/p>\n