Mads Mikkelsen starring in period drama King's Land
Mads Mikkelsen is to star in the period drama 'King's Land'. The 56-year-old actor will reunite with the director Nikolaj Arcel – who he worked with on the 2012 film 'A Royal Affair' – for the new historical movie. The story is set in the 1700s as the Danish king Fredirik V declared that the wild heath of Jutland should be tamed and colonised so civilisation could spread and more taxes could be generated for the royal house. However, nobody dared to follow the decree as the heath was considered to be haunted by ravenous wolves and highwaymen. In 1755, lone soldier Ludvig Kahlen rode into the h...