‘Vikings’ Creator Michael Hirst on Dream Project About Medieval Heretics and New Show ‘Bloodaxe’: ‘It’s a New World’

Get ready for “Bloodaxe.”

“We shot the first season last year and it’s spectacular,” writer and executive producer Michael Hirst, best known for “Vikings,” tells Variety at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival. The second season of the historical drama – set in the 10th century – is already in the works.

While “Vikings” fans will flock to see it, “it’s a new world,” he stresses.

“There has already been a follow-up to ‘Vikings,’ ‘Vikings: Valhalla,’ which I had nothing to do with. This is a new story, set 100 years later, with a completely new cast.”

In “Bloodaxe,” Hirst will explore the antics of the warrior Erik Bloodaxe, his wife Gunnhild and Egil, “a killer and a poet.”