Client news · 26 September, 2017

Icon Films and Natural History Film Unit Botswana return to ‘Savage Kingdom’ for Nat Geo WILD

Boom! client Icon Films, and Natural History Film Unit Botswana announce Nat Geo WILD’s re-commission of the global event miniseries ‘Savage Kingdom'

Leading independent UK TV production company and Boom! client Icon Films and Natural History Film Unit Botswana today announce Nat Geo WILD’s re-commission of the global event miniseries ‘Savage Kingdom,’ which The Wall Street Journal called “Nature Television as Shakespearean Drama.”

Season 2’sSavage Kingdom: Uprising’ premieres this fall with a return to the remote wilderness of Africa, where the story continues as sons plot to overthrow fathers, clans seek revenge on their enemies and new arrivals enter the Savage Kingdom to stake their claim.  There. Will. Be. Blood.

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Will the aging lion king Sekekama hold on to his bloody crown? Has the leopard prince Neo inherited enough luck from his mother to survive?  How will the lions of the Northern Pride wreak their revenge on queen Matsumi? Leaders will rise and factions will fall. No one is safe in the Savage Kingdom.

Produced by Icon Films with Natural History Film Unit Botswana, Savage Kingdom: Uprising (4 x 60’) features four episodes; ‘The Enemy Within’, ‘First Blood’, ‘Reign of Traitors’ and ‘King Slayers’. Emmy-Nominated Actor Charles Dance returns to voice season 2.

“Savage Kingdom: Uprising’ delves deeper into the individual characters and reveals the life and death decisions that drives existence in this ruthless and unpredictable world”

— Harry Marshall, Creative Director of Icon Films.

Icon Films Executive Producers are Harry Marshall and Laura Marshall and Series Producer Lucy Meadows. Natural History Film Unit Botswana Director and Cinematographer is Brad Bestelink. For Nat Geo WILD, Executive Producer is Ashley Hoppin, Senior Vice President of Development and Production is Janet Han Vissering and Executive Vice President and General Manager is Geoff Daniels.

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