Set mostly in England, back before it was officially called England — and centuries before Great Britain was so much as a glint in the eye of James I — director Ed Bazalgette’s workmanlike historic…
: Seven Kings Must Die” wraps up the events of “The Last Kingdom,” the Netfix drama series based on Bernard Cornwell’s “Saxon Tales” novels. Playing like “Game of Thrones” with more history and fewer dragons, the film opens with several smaller kingdoms, including Northumbria, Mercia and East Anglia, gearing up for a power struggle exacerbated by the recent death of Alfred the Great, king of Wessex, and worsened by the surreptitious attempts of the Danes to sow discord.
Starting life on the BBC before transitioning to Netflix in the third of its five seasons, the series’ punchy list of alumni includes Matthew Macfadyen, Ian Hart and Rutger Hauer , but it’s fair to say that later seasons and this new film favor rising stars over veterans.
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