From Heated Rivalry to heated tutelage.
Heated Rivalry creator Jacob Tierney will convey a new sequence about Alexander the Great to Netflix, per Deadline. The present, Alexander, is predicated on Annabel Lyon’s 2009 novel The Golden Mean and can comply with the Greek king-to-be’s tutelage underneath thinker Aristotle.
Per the present’s logline, “The Athenian empire is crumbling and the world’s greatest mind, Aristotle, arrives in Macedonia to tutor a volatile young prince, Alexander. Amid palace intrigue, forbidden love, brutal war and ruthless ambitions, their unlikely friendship shapes an empire and alters the course of history.”’
In a assertion, Tierney mentioned that seeing the Lyon’s novel realized is a longtime dream come true. “I fell in love with Annabel Lyon’s book The Golden Mean years ago and have been dreaming of telling this story ever since,” Tierney mentioned in a assertion.
According to Jimmy Howe, the head of scripted sequence for the U.S. and Canada at Netflix, the present “reimagines the classic power struggle between mentor and protégé with a raw, modern energy that feels both epic and incredibly intimate.”
If you’re counting at house, that’s the second Netflix sequence in latest reminiscence about the Hellenistic ruler, who created one among the largest empires in historic historical past. The 2024 present about him, Alexander: The Making of a God raised conservative eyebrows when it featured a kiss between him and one among his generals, Hephaestion, early in the present, regardless of the depiction being almost certainly a historically accurate portrayal of Alexander’s queerness.
“Hephaistion was the man whom Alexander loved, and for the rest of their lives their relationship remained as intimate as it is now irrecoverable: Alexander was only defeated once, the Cynic philosophers said long after his death, and that was by Hephaistion’s thighs,” writes historian Robin Lane Fox in his 1973 biography Alexander the Great.
Alexander the Great was even taunted with anti-gay language throughout his time, as classicist Harry Tanner wrote in Literary Hub earlier this 12 months.
“Demosthenes belittled Alexander the Great in private, calling him a ‘pais,’” Tanner wrote. “The term ‘boy,’ as we have seen, is often used for gay lovers in the ancient world. As well as describing Alexander as a ‘boy,’ Demosthenes also referred to Alexander as ‘Margites,’ the protagonist of an ancient burlesque poem, meaning ‘lustful man.’ It is far from certain, but Demosthenes’ private references to Alexander imply that this most extraordinary general was a lascivious queer.”
Tierney will write and direct Alexander, simply as he did Heated Rivalry, per Deadline. The present doesn’t presently have a potential launch date, however those that are craving for Heated Rivalry season 2 could have their needs satiated in April 2027.
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