MGM's adaptation of Bernard Cornwell's 'The Winter King' is another crushing disappointment.
Then again, had I been put in charge of this adaptation I would have stuck to the actual text. The diversity here feels inauthentic, for one thing. The racial tensions that this story deals with are largely between Britons and Saxons and Silurians and so forth.
The Warlord Chronicles do not feature a strong, young Merlin with a gregarious demeanor, black or white. He’s old and bent, impatient, suffers no fools, and is on a holy quest to restore the old gods to the land at any cost. Why anyone would take such a terrific character and make him so utterly bland is beyond my understanding. I suppose young and handsome sells more tickets, and certainly Nathaniel Martello-White is both those things.
Adaptations do need to make changes to the source material in order for words to leap from page to screen. I accept and understand this. But the first goal should be faithfulness to the original source material. Otherwise, what is the point of adapting it in the first place? If it’s considered good enough to adapt, then you have the entertainment factor taken care of already. Focus on faithfully adapting the material and making changes only when necessary.
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