But showrunner and creatorJeb Stuartis already thinking much further ahead.
Deadlinefirst reported in 2019 that Netflix had ordered 24 episodes ofValhalla, set 100 years after the events ofVikings.
Stuart confirms that to be accurate with eight of those episodes reserved for the first season.
Leo Suter as Harald Sigurdsson in ‘Vikings: Valhalla’.Bernard Walsh/NETFLIX
“We’re already in prep on season 3.
There’s a lot under the dam already that is exciting and big,” he says.
Netflix has not announced a third season, let alone a second season ofVikings: Valhalla.
Frida Gustavsson as Freydis Eriksdotter and Sam Corlett as Leif Eriksson in ‘Vikings: Valhalla’.Bernard Walsh/NETFLIX
“We’ve got several great characters and we’ve got stories in different countries and things like that.
I think that you almost need to be able look over the horizon,” Stuart says.
It wasn’t like, ‘What can we do with the Vikings this year?’
Because those characters really do have not just emotional arcs, they have literally historical arcs.
you’re free to’t just get to theme tomorrow or next year."
The Vikings now seek revenge, but they are torn amongst themselves between the Christian and pagan sects.
A focal point, which Stuart came across in his research, became the St. Brice’s Day Massacre.
“The idea was, as Aethelred says, ‘clean the cockle from the fields.’
Funny thing, the Vikings dropped being a pagan Viking or a Christian Viking and became a Viking.”
Valhallais a “muddier show” thanVikings, Stuart remarks.
If the first show was about the birth of the Danes, thenValhallais about the beginning of the end.
“I hate to say this ever, theendof a show,” he says.
