Skyrocketing Costs Nearly Sunk 'Wolf Hall.' So Key Players Took a Pay Cut to Save It

Skyrocketing costs nearly sunk ‘Wolf Hall.’ So key players took a pay cut to save it

A second season of “Wolf Hall” was inevitable. The first, based on Hilary Mantel’s award-winning novels “Wolf Hall” and “Bring Up the Bodies,” arrived in 2015, before the third and final book existed, but producer Colin Callender optioned Mantel’s entire trilogy from the outset. What wasn’t inevitable was the wait. “I always knew that we would come back to it at some point,” Callender says of “Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light,” which premiere…

Skyrocketing costs nearly sunk 'Wolf Hall.' So key players took a pay cut to save it

The team behind 'Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light' explains how they mounted Season 2 a decade after the first, and despite production costs doubling in the interim.

How the makers of 'Wolf Hall' mounted Season 2, 10 years later

A second season of “Wolf Hall” was inevitable. The first, based on Hilary Mantel’s award-winning novels “Wolf Hall” and “Bring Up the Bodies,” arrived in 2015, before the third and final book existed, but producer Colin Callender optioned Mantel’s entire trilogy from the outset. What wasn’t inevitable was the wait. “I always knew that we would come back to it at some point,” Callender says of “Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light,” which premiere…