![]() Norrell and daring spellcasting novice Jonathan Strange, use magic to help England. ![]() ![]() In an alternate history, during the time of real life Napoleonic Wars, two men of destiny, the gifted recluse Mr. All of the mythology of the world and the magic and the kind of costume drama elements were always secondary to the realism of it, and we only used them to make it feel like it could be a real story if you just take the leap of faith that maybe magic existed once upon a time. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell: With Bertie Carvel, Eddie Marsan, Marc Warren, Charlotte Riley. Harness: Fantasy is very alienating if you don’t do it right. I used all of that background material, which we don’t necessarily go into in a lot of detail it just helps to make it more real.ĭid you have concerns that people who haven’t read the book would be turned off by the material? Some of the kind of nonsense stories that Lady Pole tells come from footnotes, and the auction scene at the end of episode two is a footnote. I just treated it as opportunities for world building. How much of that material made it into the show? The book has hundreds of footnotes giving ancillary information about the story. See more TV Shows That Failed to Survive the 2014-15 Season ![]() Who knows how much she’s written or what she’s written or whether she’ll ever publish, but if she ever does, you bet your ass we’ll be there. I do believe there is more material in her mind. There is an unseen bond between us and the material and between us and Susanna, who is the most incredible, imaginative author - and yet reclusive and fascinating and interesting. ![]()
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