Vikings: Valhalla trailer picks up more than 100 years after the original Vikings series left off and shows exactly what happens when you cross not just one of these berserker Danes, but all of them.
You can already see how showrunner and creator Jeb Stuart — a writer on Die Hard and The Fugitive — is approaching the new show, which hits Netflix this February.
“Vikings: Valhalla” takes place over a thousand years ago in the early 11th century, chronicling the adventures of famous Vikings in history — notably explorer Leif Eriksson (Sam Corlett), his sister Freydis Eriksdotter (Frida Gustavsson) and Nordic prince Harald Sigurdsson (Leo Suter). In the series, tensions between Vikings and English royals violently climax and an epic journey across oceans (and bloody battlefields) begins.
The grim teaser for “Vikings: Valhalla” released on Tuesday shows gory battles, longships traveling through the water and passionate speeches by Viking leaders amid wartime.
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“This blood is not my blood. It is our blood. It is Viking blood,” says Harald Sigurdsson in the trailer.
In addition to Corlett, Gustavsson and Suter, “Vikings: Valhalla” will also star Bradley Freegard, Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson, Caroline Henderson, Laura Berlin and David Oakes. Executive producers include Jeb Stuart, Morgan O’Sullivan, Michael Hirst, Sheila Hockin, Steve Stark, James Flynn, John Weber, Sherry Marsh and Alan Gasmer. Stuart also serves as showrunner. “Vikings: Valhalla” is produced by MGM Television.
Watch the Trailer Below.
Kattegat, the capital city of Ragnar's kingdom from Vikings, will feature in Vikings: Valhalla. Hirst had also teased that the spin-off will tie up some loose ends with Rollo (Clive Standen), whose story line was left somewhat open in Vikings, as he did not return for the final season.
"As a fan of Vikings, you do know that Rollo really was part of the founding of Normandy, and Emma of Normandy comes over and becomes one of my main characters, and William the Conqueror is a descendant of Rollo," he explains. "We'd love to be able to get to that part of the story and get to that place that Michael did say you stop and you turn and nostalgically look back at the Viking era."
Vikings: Valhalla will premiere on Netflix Feb. 25.
