{"id":80957,"date":"2025-10-17T15:56:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T15:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/80957\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T15:56:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T15:56:08","slug":"daily-wire-drops-the-pendragon-cycle-rise-of-the-merlin-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/80957\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Wire Drops &#8216;The Pendragon Cycle: Rise of the Merlin&#8217; Trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daily Wire has released the teaser trailer for The Pendragon Cycle: Rise of the Merlin, its adaptation of Stephen R. Lawhead\u2019s Arthurian fantasy. <\/p>\n<p>The series arrives January 22 on DailyWire+, with new episodes rolling out Thursdays. All Access subscribers get Episodes 1 and 2 early on Christmas Day.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the trailer below.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"844\" height=\"1500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/pendragon-cycle-merlin-daily-wire-844x1500.webp.webp\" alt=\"pendragon cycle merlin daily wire\" class=\"wp-image-147259\" title=\"pendragon cycle merlin daily wire\"   loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"low\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Creative Team, Cast &amp; Production<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Boreing, co-founder of Daily Wire, leads the series alongside Jesse V. Johnson and Ryan Whitaker. Boreing also serves as executive producer with Caleb Robinson, Ben Shapiro, Dallas Sonnier, Daniel Kresmery, and others.<\/p>\n<p>Filming took place on location in Hungary and Italy. The cast includes:<\/p>\n<p>Tom Sharp as Merlin<\/p>\n<p>Rose Reid as Charis<\/p>\n<p>James Arden as Taliesin<\/p>\n<p>Finney Cassidy as Aurelius<\/p>\n<p>Myles Clohessy as Uther<\/p>\n<p>Brett Cooper as Ganieda<\/p>\n<p>Alex Laurence Phillips as Pelleas<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Fathers as King Avallach<\/p>\n<p>Emree Franklin as Morgian<\/p>\n<p>Other supporting actors include Steve Varnom, Alex Arco, George Osborne, and others.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1062\" height=\"686\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/rise-of-merlin-daily-wire.webp.webp\" alt=\"rise of merlin daily wire\" class=\"wp-image-147257\" title=\"rise of merlin daily wire\"   fetchpriority=\"low\"\/><\/p>\n<p>What the Story Promises<\/p>\n<p>The Pendragon Cycle adapts Lawhead\u2019s reinterpretation of the Arthurian legend, set during the decline of Roman rule in Britain as Christianity begins to spread amid spiritual and political conflict. Barbarian incursions threaten the land, and characters must reckon with faith, power, and identity.<\/p>\n<p>Boreing describes the source novels as presenting \u201ca visceral, masculine Christianity in a world of conflict and mystery.\u201d Daily Wire calls this project among its most ambitious series to date.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Pendragon Cycle\u00a0is among the largest, most ambitious independent series ever produced,\u201d said Boreing. \u201cIt represents the culmination of a ten-year vision to create culture, not just to criticize it. Lawhead\u2019s novels present a visceral, masculine Christianity in a world of conflict and mystery. It isn\u2019t saccharine or clean. In short, it is very much like our world. I\u2019m so happy to share our adaptation, and the work of our remarkable cast and crew, with the Daily Wire audience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re incredibly proud to bring\u00a0The Pendragon Cycle\u00a0to the Daily Wire family and the many supporters who have championed this project from the beginning,\u201d added Daily Wire CEO Caleb Robinson. \u201cIt is a true milestone for Daily Wire Entertainment. We believe our audience deserves stories told with this level of craft and conviction, and we\u2019re thrilled to finally share it with them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1179\" height=\"1468\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/pendragon-rise-merlink-daily-wire.jpg\" alt=\"pendragon rise merlink daily wire\" class=\"wp-image-147258\" title=\"pendragon rise merlink daily wire\"   fetchpriority=\"low\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Release and Access<\/p>\n<p>The series officially debuts January 22, 2025, exclusively on DailyWire+. New episodes drop Thursdays. All Access members will be able to stream the first two episodes on Christmas Day.<\/p>\n<p>This marks the first large-scale live-action series from Daily Wire. It joins other flagship content on the platform such as Run Hide Fight, Terror on the Prairie starring Gina Carano, Am I Racist?, and What Is a Woman?<\/p>\n<p>Watch the trailer:<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/DtrlS0oot5I-hqdefault.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" alt=\"The Pendragon Cycle: Rise of the Merlin | Official Teaser\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"low\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daily Wire has released the teaser trailer for The Pendragon Cycle: Rise of the Merlin, its adaptation of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[146,85,46,411],"class_list":["post-80957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}