Shadows and Bones â Rebecca Shrestha, Henrietta Barnett School
Yesterday, April 23rd, Netflix released the much-awaited television series ‘Shadow and Bone’ at 8am (BST) based on the bestselling trilogy series by Leigh Bardugo. This 8-episode first season of the Grishaverse book series is based on the ‘Shadow and Bone’ trilogy and also includes the backstory of the ‘Six of Crows’ duology. Fans had been avidly waiting for the series to come out in order to see their much-loved book series come alive in a television serious adaptation. The casting list sees Jessie Mei Li as Alina Starkov, Ben Barnes as General Kirigan (the Darkling), Archie Renaux as Mal Oretsev and as for the Dregs: Freddy Carter as Kaz Brekker, Amita Suman as Inej Ghafa, Kit Young as Jesper Fahey and Danielle Galligan as Nina Zenik; there is also the wonderful new addition of the rather delightful companion Milo.
14 notable differences between the book and Netflix s Shadow and Bone
BFFs: Archie Renaux as Mal Oretsev and Jessie Mei Li as Alina Starkov
Image: DAVID APPLEBY / NETFLIX
2021-04-24 10:00:00 UTC
Leigh Bardugo s novels are so full of descriptive detail amid the bubbling romance and Grisha magic, with painstakingly detailed world-mapping and well-woven geopolitics, that the Netflix show
Shadow and Bone has plenty to work with.
But as the book came out in 2012, there s also plenty of room for the show to make its own improvements.
The eight-episode series draws from two books from Bardugoâs Grishaverse :
Shadow and Bone (the start of the Grisha trilogy ) and 2015 s
Friday, 23rd April 2021 at 8:00 am
Book to screen adaptations are always tricky to pull off, more so when they involve packing two hefty series, a sprawling cast and a complex fantasy universe into eight episodes.
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But that’s precisely what Netflix’s Shadow and Bone – which also incorporates Leigh Bardugo’s Six of Crows duology – attempts.
The fantasy series lands on Netflix on 23rd April, with Jessie Mei Li starring as orphan turned Sun Summoner Alina Starkov, alongside Ben Barnes as General Kirigan, aka the Darkling (though only the Fjerdans call him that these days). Other Shadow and Bone cast members include Archie Renaux as Mal Oretsev, and Freddy Carter, Amita Suman and Kit Young as three of the Six of Crows.