Wolf Hall sequel sets launch date
TRAILER: Mark Rylance and Damian Lewis reunite for Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light, which will debut on the BBC on November 10 before launching next year in the US on Masterpiece PBS.
The long-anticipated follow-up to Wolf Hall, this sequel will trace the final four years of Cromwell’s life, completing his journey from self-made man to the most feared, influential figure of his time. Cromwell is as complex as he is unforgettable: a politician and a fixer, a diplomat and a father, a man who both defied and defined his age.
The trailer shows Thomas Cromwell (Rylance) as he navigates the court of King Henry VIII (Lewis), encountering Henry’s new wife, Jane Seymour (Kate Phillips), his daughter Lady Mary (Lilit Lesser), Rafe Sadler (Thomas Brodie-Sangster), Gregory Cromwell (Charlie Rowe), Thomas Wriostheley (Harry Melling), Dorothea (Hannah Khalique-Brown) and Sir Geoffrey Pole (Pip Carter), with flashbacks of Cardinal Wolsey (Jonathan Pryce).
The series also features Timothy Spall as the Duke of Norfolk, Harriet Walter as Lady Margaret Pole, Alex Jennings as Stephen Gardiner, Tom Mothersdale as Richard Riche, Karim Kadjar as Eustache Chapuys, Maisie Richardson-Sellers as Bess Oughtred, Ellie de Lange as Jenneke and Lydia Leonard as Jane Rochford. Please find further casting linked below.
May, 1536. Anne Boleyn, Henry’s second wife, and five of her coterie are dead. As the axe drops, Thomas Cromwell emerges from the bloodbath to continue his climb to power and wealth, while his formidable master, Henry, settles to short-lived happiness with his third queen, Jane Seymour.
Cromwell, a man with only his wits to rely on, has no great family to back him, and no private army. Navigating the moral complexities that accompany the exercise of power in this brutal and bloody time, Cromwell is caught between his desire to do what is right and his instinct to survive. But in the wake of Henry VIII having executed his queen, no one is safe.
Despite rebellion at home, traitors plotting abroad and the threat of invasion testing Henry’s regime to breaking point, Cromwell’s robust imagination sees a new country in the mirror of the future. All of England lies at his feet, ripe for innovation and religious reform. But as fortune’s wheel turns, Cromwell’s enemies are gathering in the shadows.
The inevitable question remains: how long can anyone survive under Henry’s cruel and capricious gaze?
The series is directed by Peter Kosminsky and written by Peter Straughan, adapted from the book by Hilary Mantel. It is produced by Playground and Company Pictures.
The producer is Lisa Osborne. Executive producers are Noëlette Buckley, Peter Kosminsky, and Colin Callender, along with Lucy Richer for the BBC and Susanne Simpson for Masterpiece.
Wolf Hall: The Mirror & the Light will launch on BBC iPlayer and BBC One on Sunday, November 10, with new episodes premiering weekly.
It will air in the US on Masterpiece PBS on March 23, 2025.
The series will be distributed internationally by Banijay Rights.
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