Vikings boss Michael Hirst has teased what’s in retailer for his characters (Image: Getty)
Vikings boss Michael Hirst has teased the upcoming Netflix spin-off series Valhalla will likely be ‘extra of a thriller’ than the unique historic epic.
Season 6b of cult favorite Vikings dropped on the finish of 2020, with the show saying goodbye to the characters that we now have watched develop up and struggle to be chief of Kattegat.
Nevertheless, the brand new sequence will likely be a totally completely different take of the Vikings legend, with a brand new boss on the helm delving into components that may set pulses racing.
Showrunner Hirst, who’s handing the reins over to Jeb Stuart for the brand new sequence, has given his successor his seal of approval.
Talking to Entertainment Weekly, he mentioned: ‘It’s set 100 years from my present, and it options really some extra well-known Vikings.
‘Individuals may need heard of Harald Hardrada and Erik the Crimson. It’s a brand new sort of heroic age, a really completely different canvas.
The saga will proceed in a brand new sequence for Netflix (Image: Getty)
The Sons of Ragnar had sealed their fates within the last episodes (Image: Amazon Prime Video)
‘The Christians and the Christian Vikings are making large head roads. What Floki all the time feared is coming to go.
‘And in addition, Jeb Stuart, who’s writing the present, is basically a thriller author, so it will be completely different in some ways.
‘It’s an incredible tribute to the present, I believe, that Netflix needed to do a derivative.’
The ultimate episodes of Vikings, which airs on Amazon Prime Video, noticed every of the remaining sons of Ragnar take completely different paths with their lives, every with completely different penalties.
Whereas two died because of their dedication to bloody battle, others renounced their earlier lives, setting them on new paths.
Vikings is out there now on Amazon Prime Video.
