Clémence Poésy and Emily Beecham have joined the solid of eleventh century interval drama “King & Conqueror.”

Based mostly on Center Ages figures Harold of Wessex and William of Normandy, the upcoming BBC/CBS Studios sequence stars “Glad Valley’s” James Norton as Harold and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (“Sport of Thrones”) as William.

Beecham (“1899”) joins as Harold’s spouse Edith Swan-neck whereas Poésy (“In Bruges”) will play William’s spouse Matilda.

Edith, who married Harold for love in addition to safety, has by no means fitted into his household however their lives are upended additional when he finally ends up preventing for the English crown. In the meantime Matilda is dishonest, ruthless and bloodier than even her male opponents after being raised within the Flemish royal courtroom.

“’King & Conqueror’ is the story of a conflict that outlined the way forward for a rustic – and a continent – for a thousand years, the roots of which stretch again a long time and lengthen out via a pair of interconnected household dynasties, struggling for energy throughout two nations and a raging sea,” reads the logline. “Harold of Wessex and William of Normandy have been two males destined to fulfill on the Battle of Hastings in 1066; two allies with no design on the British throne, who discovered themselves compelled by circumstance and private obsession right into a warfare for possession of its crown.”

Manufacturing is ready to kick off in Iceland quickly.

“King & Conqueror” is created, written and exec produced by Michael Robert Johnson (“Sherlock Holmes”). Baltasar Kormákur (“Everest”) directs the primary episode. James Norton exec produces via his firm Rabbit Monitor Photos alongside Kitty Kaletsky. Coster-Waldau may even exec produce and direct an episode.

The Improvement Partnership, Rabbit Monitor Photos, Shepherd Content material, RVK Studios and CBS Studios produce in affiliation with the BBC. Kormákur exec produces for RVK Studios, Robert Taylor for The Improvement Partnership, Dave Clarke and Richard Halliwell for Shepherd Content material, Ed Clarke, Robert Jones, and CBS Studios’ Lindsey Martin.

Paramount World Content material Distribution is repping the present worldwide exterior the U.Okay., the place the BBC will broadcast the sequence.