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The Pendragon Cycle streaming series began with a slower start for its January release on Daily Wire Plus. Well, this month, everything changed. Based on the first two volumes in Stephen R. Lawhead’s series, The Pendragon Cycle worked its new wizardry to reach the top three shows on Prime Video. Let’s go behind the scenes of the Cycle, touching on controversies but staying pre-political and pre-medieval as we explore how Christian creators fight to build the future. Today we’re joined by The Pendragon Cycle series creator Jeremy Boreing.
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Backstory: Jeremy Boreing
Jeremy Boreing is a writer, filmmaker, producer, and co-founder of The Daily Wire. He is the host of The Jeremy Boreing Show and the series creator of The Pendragon Cycle. That streaming adaptation of Stephen R. Lawhead’s fantasy epic retells the origins of Merlin and King Arthur. It premiered Jan. 2026 on Daily Wire Plus. Then in July 2026, Pendragon debuted on Prime Video UK and hit the number 1 fantasy series. By the following month, August 2026, Pendragon debuted on Prime Video in the United States and reached the number 2 most-viewed show on that platform.
Boreing’s past work in political media includes co-founding the conservative news and commentary website TruthRevolt, serving as executive director of Friends of Abe network, and co-founding Declaration Entertainment with Bill Whittle. He’s also the co-founder and former CEO of The Daily Wire commentary network.
Daily Wire co-CEO Jeremy Boreing announced Nov. 17, 2022 that the cultural conservative streamer would adapt the Arthurian saga.
Quotes and notes
Last night [Nov. 13, 2022], cultural conservative fans learned media company The Daily Wire could adapt Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged into a streaming series.
But for Christian fantastical fiction fans, the buried lede is actually this:
[Daily Wire co-CEO Jeremy] Boreing also announced a slate of major projects in development, including: . . .
An exclusive option to develop and produce feature film and television series adaptations for all six books in Stephen R. Lawhead’s “THE PENDRAGON CYCLE”
Daily Wire co-CEO Jeremy Boreing announced Nov. 17 that the cultural conservative streamer will debut the Arthurian saga …
Boreing elaborated in a Nov. 17 livestream:
“While Atlas has shaped the worldview of millions of people around the globe, there’s a series of books that I read as a teenager that, more than any other, helped shape my worldview. It’s based on perhaps the most impactful myth in the Western tradition—the legend of King Arthur. And it’s called The Pendragon Cycle by Stephen R. Lawhead. And today, I’m beyond thrilled to announce that the DailyWire+ has secured the rights to this unbelievable work.
“This is an incredible story about the fall of the Roman occupation in Great Britain, and the rise of Christianity in the blood-soaked pagan islands—British Isles. It’s the most ambitious thing we’ve ever set about to do. And it’s going to be incredible.”
Daily Wire Announces Streaming Series Based on Stephen R. Lawhead’s Pendragon Cycle, Lorehaven, Nov. 18
Read our review of The Pendragon Cycle book 1, Taliesin. Or for fans and families, get our complete book quest guide (coming soon).
1. Pre-political: faith meets imagination
- Origin in Lubbock, plus redemption in the gospel of Jesus Christ
- Community theater, the “bent key,” discovering the power of story
- “Pre-political” stories compared with “mid-political” punditry
- Christians are called to either field; some wish to serve in both
- All have political beliefs, yet The Pendragon Cycle is pre-political
2. Pre-medieval: legend meets history
- How reading Lawhead’s historical fantasy shaped Boreing’s reality
- From the making of the show to the breaking(?) of Jeremy Boreing
- Fantastic stories from behind-the-scenes: actors, sets, epic music
- Exploring the deeper challenges of Christian creative filmmaking
- In a world of deconstruction, we can build better, with excellence
3. Pre-constructing: Christians meet world
- The ultimate purpose of Christian-made creativity and storytelling
- Jeremy’s own meaning of “fight for freedom and build the future”
- Pendragon’s results on Daily Wire Plus versus Prime Video now
- Whether this means Pendragon could get a future second season
- Now that Pendragon has reached at/near no. 1, how we can pray
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Top question for listeners
- Would you prefer serving the Lord as a wizard, king, or bard?
Nick in the Guild replied to our Sept. 11 episode:
On the way home, I remember playing a particular Metallica track, in my old car with no air conditioning. I don’t remember which one, I just remember I specifically wanted that defiant, “you will not destroy us” vibe.
Not terribly long after, that CD, and the car CD player, were stolen, while the car was still parked outside my house. It was considered a “good neighborhood,” but had already begun its transition into something more characteristic of the area. You could say that much of that decade was spent worrying about the wrong problems.
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We close with the words of Britain’s great mythical bard, Taliesin ap Elphin (written by Stephen R. Lawhead):
I have seen a land where kings extend their hands in justice rather than reach for the sword; where mercy, kindness, and compassion flow like deep water, and where men revere virtue, revere truth, revere beauty above comfort, pleasure or selfish gain.
A land where peace reigns in the hearts of men. Where faith blazes like a beacon from every hill and love like a fire from every hearth; where the True God is worshiped and His ways acclaimed by all.
I have seen this land. I have seen it and my heart yearns for it.
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