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Robert Lantos On Keeping It Real With European Epic ‘Rise Of The Raven’ And Why The Talent & Languages Had To Be Local — MIPCOM


Robert Lantos wanted to avoid a Hollywood take on European history with 'Rise of the Raven'

Robert Lantos wanted to avoid a Hollywood take on European history and insisted that characters in his period epic Rise of the Raven spoke in their native tongues and that talent was sourced from the countries in question. “I thought it was a price was worth paying that we wouldn’t have any global stars, only local ones, from the actual countries that are involved in this history, and we’ll keep it real. “I think this [series] may not have been possible to do ten years ago, but courtesy of the streamer world, mass audiences have actually developed a kind of, maybe not love, but tolerance of subtitles.

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