![]() ![]() ![]() They weren’t an evil organization that went around deliberately oppressing people, but they were driven by profit, and how familiar is that now? They were a huge multinational that had the added impetus that they felt they were spreading Christian civilization around the world - so they were pretty free to do anything they wanted. KNIGHT: I think the East India Company represents what we would think of as a very modern approach to the world where everything was counted, every penny was counted. I think it really lends itself to a drama and depicting a city, London, in a way that it’s never been depicted before.ĭEADLINE: In that depiction, you place the once almost all-powerful British East India Company as the adversary of Tom Hardy’s James Delaney, between whom there is a deep and dark not-so-hidden history. And it was conducted with spies, it was conducted with espionage, and all of that stuff is gray. There was an unbelievable amount of animosity in that war which people have forgotten, which was still around 50 years later. ![]() At this time of 1814, two nations who would eventually become close allies were at war with each other, so it doesn’t quite fit. They look for sequences and they look for reasons, and certain periods of history don’t fit with the general pattern of 1500 to the 20th century, during which there’s the creation of the United States. I think certain periods of history don’t get dealt with because I think historians, and it’s their job, but they look back and look for patterns. KNIGHT: I think it creates so many more opportunities and pitfalls in that you are treading on fresh snow, so you’re in a new place. ![]()
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