History has renewed the Knights Templar drama Knightfall for a second season, the network announced on Monday. For the drama’s second outing, Star Wars star Mark Hamill will join the cast, and The Flash executive producer Aaron Helbing will take over showrunning duties.
Led by Tom Cullen, Knightfall tells the story of the Knights Templar, the most powerful, wealthy and mysterious military order of the Middle Ages who were entrusted with protecting Christianity’s most precious relics.
Hamill will play the role of Talus, a battle-hardened Knight Templar veteran of the Crusades, who survived captivity for 10 years in the Holy Land and is tasked with training the new initiates to the Order.
Also joining the cast for Season 2 are The Bastard Executioner alum Tom Forbes as Prince Louis, the violent and unpredictable son of King Philip and heir to the throne, and The Royals star Genevieve Gaunt as Isabella, the daughter of King Philip and well on her way to becoming the woman who history would call “the she-wolf of France.”
