A bit outside your wheelhouse, and you may have already got wind of it, but this looks like a cool project!
National pride is running particularly high after Russian president Vladimir offended Kazakhs by dismissing their past and claiming that Kazakhstan had no history.
Great to see people telling their own story. They do have a history, and they’re going to present it with beautiful cinematography and high production values!
The article calls it Kazakhstan’s “Game of Thrones”, though I’m thinking more “Marco Polo Without the White Guy”. Having been absorbed in Marco Polo recently, it’d be great to see these stories told without the inherent ‘othering’ of having a western main character!
This looks REALLY cool! Thanks so much for your submission. Here’s the trailer:
As a sidenote, I reaaaallllly wish journalists would stop conflating Game of Thrones and actual history/historical fiction, because it leads to the whole “Things Were Just Like That Back Then” problem. Among others.
This is everything I want, @tyson-ot-nw know me well. It looks absolutely gorgeous, you can tell A LOT of love and devotion when into this drama’s creation.
