Antonia Blyth Deputy Editor, AwardsLineBased on the 2016 bestselling novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Proulx of Brokeback Mountain fame, National Geographic’s scripted drama series Barkskins is a savage trip back in time to the wild frontiers of the late 17th century.
Set in the wooden settlement of Wobik, now the Canadian province of Quebec, the show features an ensemble cast that includes David Thewlis as the wealthy but eccentric landowner Claude Trepagny and Marcia Gay Harden as wily innkeeper Mathilde Geffard, keeper of the local community’s secrets.Speaking during Deadline’s Contenders Television virtual event, showrunner Elwood Reid explained that it was Proulx’s consummate world-building—the book spans over 300.
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