Just when we almost thought the summer was over even before it actually started, Netflix has announced today July 17th as the streaming date for their

Cursed starts July 17th at Netflix

new epic series CURSED, a ten episode drama based on Arthurian legends which it obviously (and rather shamelessly) plays with by changing history and legends the way it suits them. Katherine Langford leads the cast as the young sorceress Nimue who encounters a young King Arthur (Devon Terrell) on his quest to find a powerful and ancient sword.

  Cursed Series
based on  Frank Miller and Tom Wheeler's comic book, is a re-imagination of the Arthurian legend, told through the eyes of Nimue, a young woman with a mysterious gift

Katherine Langford takes the lead role of Lady of the Lake Nimue

who is destined to become the powerful (and tragic) Lady of the Lake. After her mother's death, she finds an unexpected partner in Arthur, a humble

Devon Terrell plays King Arthur, or a reimagination of the legendary king

mercenary, in a quest to find Merlin and deliver an ancient sword. Over the course of her journey, Nimue will become a symbol of courage and rebellion

Matt Stokoe is the brave Sir Gawain

against the terrifying Red Paladins, and their complicit King Uther. Cursed is a coming-of-age story whose themes are familiar to our own time: the

Gustaf Skarsgard is some weird new Merlin

obliteration of the natural world, religious terror, senseless war, and finding the courage to lead in the face of the impossible.

The cast of the series, which was shot last year before September and has thus escaped the predicaments of corona outbreak, also includes  Gustaf

Daniel Sharman is The Weeping Monk in the series

Skarsgard as Merlin, Matt Stokoe as Sir Gawain, Bella Dayne as Viking captain Red Spear, Daniel Sharman as the Weeping Monk, with Petter

The series will air in ten hourlong episodes

Mulan, Billy Jenkins, Shalom Brune-Franklin, Sebastian Armesto, Ella Prebble, Scarlett Rock and Daniella Gad also in the lineup.This is the third epic series at Netflix this year after Witcher and A Letter for the King.