‘The Bastard Executioner’ spoilers: Kurt Sutter on implmenting violence into medieval drama

Kurt Sutter was certainly a man behind many a violent sequence on “Sons of Anarchy” during his time on that particular program, and when you combine that with a medieval setting like he has for the upcoming “The Bastard Executioner,” it is pretty easy to jump to conclusions … with one of the biggest ones being that this show will be for sure a complete and total bloodbath.

With that being said, though, the showrunner made it very clear today while at the Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour that the drama, which airs starting on September 15, will be grounded with a set of rules stating that there will not just be violence shown for violence’s sake. If you make a decision to take a life or do something else brutal, you have to expect some sort of consequences to go along with that. His full comments come to us below via TVLine:

“My mandate, as it was on Sons, is that the violence — as absurd as it could be sometimes on Sons — always came from an organic place. [For] every violent act, there were ramifications. That’s my same mandate here [too]. Yes, it’s a medieval setting, and the laws in terms of punishment were brutal and heinous … That’s a reality of the world. And there are ways to portray that violence that don’t make it openly gratuitous. Anything that happens — be it a battle sequence, or an execution, or a torture scene — comes out of story. And it always has some ramification.”

The show has been hard at work all summer filming more new episodes in Wales, and while we know a little bit about the 14th-century setting and the story about a warrior who eventually becomes a sort of traveling executioner, there is still some mystery here. This is actually a case in some ways of a show we don’t want to know too much about in advance, mostly because this raises the chance for us to be surprised.

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