The pair didn't just co-create the book, but the series, as well - and they did both at the same damn time. When you lump all these details together, it feels like a no-brainer that Netflix would put the project on the fast track. The diversity of the cast is also worth highlighting: young Arthur is played by Devon Terrell, the actor who portrayed young Barack Obama in the Netflix biopic Barry, and Morgana le Fay's ethnicity and sexual orientation are flipped here. The inclusion of Vikings alum Gustaf Skarsgård, who brings a more tortured and disturbed version of Merlin to life here, and Ozark's Peter Mullan's sinister Father Carden - the leader of the murderous religious zealots known as the Red Paladins - keeps the edge of this series relatively sharp. With his involvement, you can pretty much expect the show, which is firmly rooted in the YA category of genre entertainment, to go dark. Yes, we're talking about the Will Eisner Hall of Fame winner Frank Miller: the comic book writer and artist responsible for the likes of Sin City, 300, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, and so many others. There are a handful of other noteworthy details that make Cursed a series worth paying attention to, one of which being the involvement of Tom Wheeler ( Puss in Boots, The Lego Ninjago Movie) and Frank Miller, the co-creators of the graphic novel of the same name. But there are visual hints to her story origins and her tragic future. In Cursed, Nimue doesn't live in a lake - at least, not yet.

Who's Nimue? You may know her from the Arthurian legend as the Lady of the Lake, the mysterious woman who raised Lancelot and gave Arthur his sword. Instead, the program follows a young fey girl named Nimue (played by 13 Reason Why's Katherine Langford) who takes on a journey of self-discovery while battling to stay alive and retrieve the Sword of Power. But while the series' first 10 episodes, which drops Friday, does feature iconic characters like Arthur and Merlin the Magician, the hero isn't either one of these men. Netflix's Cursed drops audiences back into the familiar medieval world of King Arthur, where one magical sword was once jammed into a big stubborn stone.

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