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The final 10 episodes have begun filming in Hungary
Andi Ortiz | April 30, 2021 @ 10:00 AM
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“The Last Kingdom” is officially headed into the last season. After six years, split between two different networks, Season 5 will be the final season for the show, according to Deadline and Variety.
Originally debuting on BBC Two in 2015, “The Last Kingdom” found a home at Netflix in 2018. The series is an adaptation of Bernard Cornwell’s best-selling
The Saxon Stories novels, following the adventures of Uhtred of Bebbanburg (Alexander Dreymon), a Saxon-born warrior who was raised a Dane, in ninth and tenth-century England.
The final season of “The Last Kingdom” will be based on the ninth and 10th books in the 13-part series, and consist of 10 episodes, currently filming in Hungary. In these final episode Uhtred will be tasked with training King Edward’s first-born son Aethelstan as a warrior, working to achieve his own destiny. In the process, Uhtred will have to face down his greatest enemy and suffer his greatest loss.