{"id":6159,"date":"2021-10-24T13:30:12","date_gmt":"2021-10-24T11:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1403636"},"modified":"2021-10-24T13:41:08","modified_gmt":"2021-10-24T11:41:08","slug":"the-last-kingdom-movie-seven-kings-must-die-headed-to-netflix","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/the-last-kingdom-movie-seven-kings-must-die-headed-to-netflix\/","title":{"rendered":"The Last Kingdom movie Seven Kings Must Die headed to Netflix"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By David Craig\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Sunday, 24 October 2021 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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The Last Kingdom will wrap up its story with a feature-length film on Netflix<\/a> titled Seven Kings Must Die, star Alexander Dreymon revealed today at MCM London Comic-Con.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, it was announced that the upcoming fifth season would be the show\u2019s last<\/a>, but intense enthusiasm from fans compelled the creative team to explore options for one last hurrah.<\/p>\n

Dreymon will return in his acclaimed role Uhtred of Bebbanburg for the two-hour special, while Carnival Films has also teased appearances from \u201cmany\u201d other returning characters.<\/p>\n

However, they are keeping quiet on exactly who else is in the cast, in order not to spoil any of the exciting developments awaiting fans in The Last Kingdom<\/a> season five, which is scheduled for release in 2022 (prior to the movie-sized conclusion).<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we started shooting the show there were ten books that Bernard Cornwell had written, and we had structured the show in a way that season five was always going to be the last season,\u201d said Dreymon at The Last Kingdom\u2019s Comic-Con panel.<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, for a good while now we\u2019ve been in talks about maybe a little extension\u2026 because it felt like it couldn\u2019t quite yet be the end,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd then we\u2019ve seen such a big appetite from the fans for an encore that we have decided, along with Netflix, to do a special which is going to be a \u2018movie version\u2019 of the show and which we are going to be shooting next year.\u201d<\/p>

In a statement released after the panel, Dreymon added that he was \u201cso grateful\u201d to the fans for being \u201cimmensely loyal\u201d to the show over the past six years, describing Seven Kings Must Die as \u201can epic end to a wonderful journey\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Last Kingdom cast<\/a> and crew will return to Budapest for the project, where the show has always been filmed, bringing to life a script penned by season four and five writer Martha Hillier.<\/p>\n

Edward Bazalgette will return to the director\u2019s chair, having previously worked on several earlier chapters of The Last Kingdom, as well as episodes of The Witcher<\/a>, Doctor Who<\/a> and Poldark<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Last Kingdom producer Nigel Marchant said: \u201cWe couldn\u2019t be more thrilled to continue The Last Kingdom with a feature-length movie. Although season five fully concludes the series, there was always one more story that we wanted to tell.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith the brilliant support of Netflix and continued appetite from the fans to see more, we simply couldn\u2019t resist one last journey with Uhtred.\u201d<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no word yet on the plot of Seven Kings Must Die, but it stands to reason that the movie will be at least partly inspired by the final three books in Cornwell\u2019s series \u2013 War of the Wolf, Sword of Kings, and War Lord \u2013 with a number of \u201cnew faces\u201d set to be introduced.<\/p>\n

Likewise, no release date has been set for the special just yet, but it will arrive on Netflix UK some time after the fifth season, with filming getting underway next year.<\/p>\n