Kurt Sutter On. Kurt Sutter has gone medieval for his follow up, The Bastard Executioner. Its set way back in 1. Wales, when monarchs held subjects in a cruel iron grip to keep power, and traveling executioners were useful tools to enforce their rule. Sutter has brought along for this ride wife Katey Sagal, who moves seamlessly from the manipulative mother of Sons. Sons of Anarchy Genre Crime drama Created by Kurt Sutter Starring Charlie Hunnam Katey Sagal Mark Boone Junior Kim Coates Tommy Flanagan Johnny Lewis Maggie Siff. Sons Of Anarchy Season 7 Episodes 13' title='Sons Of Anarchy Season 7 Episodes 13' />Download FXNOW to watch full episodes of your favorite FX and FXX shows. Download FXNOW to watch blockbuster movies. She does this with help from The Dark Mute, a horribly disfigured character played by Sutter himself. It seems like an inside joke that Sutters playing a mute, right after his Sons. After all, Sutter is the most outspoken show creator in the business, who never met a verbal or Twitter brawl he didnt relish. Here, he talks about the mythology of the traveling executioner and the world hell introduce with Tuesdays premiere, along with his intent to make a Vietnam era SOA limited series prequel, and a separate Sons spinoff that will have a decidedly Latino flavoring. DEADLINE The Bastard Executioner introduces Wilkin Brattle, a knight in King Edward Is army who swears off violence but is pressed to become a kingdoms house killer to survive. I dont think Ive seen anyone lose a head quite like the way you show it. Most historical movies, you see the swinging sword or ax, but not the result. SUTTER Ill just give you one insight on that. Watch Power Online Ibtimes'>Watch Power Online Ibtimes. I was going insane. I was driving the special effects people crazy because it just wasnt working. It looked like Photoshop. Then it hit me, I knew what we needed. You need to see the person react, once the head is cut off. So if you watch, theres a moment we added where, as the head gets cut off, you just see his eye twitch, just a little bit. And you realize. Its something simple, but to me, I was like, oh, yeah All my post people were around me going, youre out of your mind. So we got that one, but there were quite a few other things I ended up having to cut away from. DEADLINE The prologue launches your story right after the death of the English King Edward I, the Longshanks character who tormented William Wallace and the Scots in Braveheart. Why set it in that periodSUTTER Yeah, Longshanks basically crushed the Scots and screwed over the Welsh. That was a wild time. Initially I had it set in Northumberland, which is England below Scotland. We went to Wales because theres more castles per capita than anywhere else in Europe, because of Longshanks. He built these monolithic structures all over Wales, mostly for intimidation. They would paint them with Limestone to preserve them, but Longshanks also did it because they would almost glow white in the sun, spectral reminders that, we fucking crushed your soul. When we decided to put the production there, I backtracked and looked at the dynamic that happened in Wales. There were big battles at the end of the 1. Longshanks crushed them, and then 1. Edward II got fucked over and ousted by the Marcher Lords. Theres a general sense of rebellion, which I use as external conflict. But other than a few historical points, I wasnt bound to very specific things and allowed myself to mix fact with fiction. DEADLINE The fragility of rule over commoners squeezed for taxes makes the institutionalized cruelty understandable. Wannabe monarchs imposed their will and needed executioners for gory public spectacles. There were power struggles in Sons Of Anarchy, but youve taken this to the extreme, no SUTTER I love history and I think its why I love writing such in depth mythologies. I dont read a lot of fiction but one of my favorite authors is William Kennedy his books to me almost read like historical dramas because the mythologies are so detailed as he wove fiction with the factual history of Albany. For this period, theres this great book The Plantagenets, which the BBC turned into a documentary series. I found myself stunned and appalled by this stuff, and if Im stunned and appalled, its got to be some really fucked up shit. The level of intrigue and incest and backstabbing that went on with this lineage of non Englishthey were mostly Frenchtrying to hold on to England, was so fucking dark and insane. Those were strings that were helpful to me. DEADLINE Youve said as a Catholic, the religion aspect also appealed to you. If you werent Catholic, you were gone. If you were Jewish, you were gone. If you were Muslim, you were gone. Yet, most of the populace was only half a generation away from believing in witches and fairies and goblins and all these things of pagan origin. I loved the idea of that period of time when theres an awakening of spirituality and more refined things, but for the most part the populace was still very backwards. Which is why, as you said, the level of punishment and the strictness of the laws were so insane. They ruled with fear because people didnt understand anything but that black and white kind of punishment. DEADLINE A rough road to civilized society SUTTER You go through history and realize that any basic human advancement was only done through torture and war and bloodshed. The Magna Carta didnt happen because someone said, I think we deserve some human rights and a basic understanding of law. It happened because people were driven into the dirt and there was such a sense of rebellion that the powers that be basically had a knife put to their throat to give people some sense of basic human rights and due process of law. It was always after decades and centuries of brutal conflict and abuse. All that stuff fascinates me. Im still doing research. We learned in school about the Crusades, but there were like 1. Crusades. Some kid would come in and decide he was the dude destined to win back the Holy Land, and tens of thousands of lives would be thrown at this pointless quest that would fail, again. There was no value on human life as opposed to the quest of all things godly. DEADLINE With that chaos as your backdrop, what made you spark to a traveling executioner as your central character SUTTER It began with Brian Grazer and I, talking about that character. People had a general stereotyped point of view of what a biker was, and that gave me an opportunity to shed some light on that world and show different levels of who they were, and pull back the curtain. I saw the same opportunity here, an archetype to overcome. Most peoples understanding of an executioner is the stereotype dude with the black hood and the big ax. Truth is, every country in every period of time had different ideas of what that job was. There are some great books that document specific executioners. That period, most of the skill work was done by journeymen, including blacksmiths. If you had some kind of trade, there usually wasnt enough work unless you were in a bigger city like Windsor or London. For the most part, you really had to travel from village to village to make a living. That included the executioners. I wanted that as a way into the series but I wanted it more complicated so it didnt have to just be about being born into being an executioner, which is a very different show with a different set of conflicts and I felt like it would have put us in a box. DEADLINE What kind of box SUTTER Too much like Sons, where you had a guy who was born into a certain destiny and had to fight to get out of it. This device. Then I just do what I always do, which is steal from really good people. DEADLINE Like SUTTER One of my favorite movies is the old Depardieu film The Return Of Martin Guerre, which is actually a true story and a book. This French soldier, whos basically a dick, goes off to war. One day this guy shows up years later and says, I am Martin Guerre. Its a primitive time. There are no records, no paintings, only what people remember. The great thing about the story is that you realize his family knows its not the dude but hes such a better guy that they were like, welcome back. 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