Shared Clips Reveal Conflicts Large and Small
The audience got a glimpse of these varying scopes through four clips played during the panel. The first two pieces of footage gave an overview of the larger conflict in this mythical world, and were told from the points of view of the main characters — the human Detective Rycroft Philostrate (Bloom) and fairy Vignette Stonemoss (Delevingne). We find out that the two are star-crossed lovers, brought together and then torn apart by a war between the humans and the fae. Both of them have ended up on Carnival Row, a street in a Victorian London-esque town where the fae are refugees and often treated with animalistic cruelty. The clips also highlight that there’s a serial killer on the loose: a creature, neither human nor fae, that is going around the Row disemboweling people.The third and fourth clips moved toward the posh part of the town, and focused on the human aristocrat Imogene Spurnrose (Merchant) and her new neighbor, the puck Agreus Astrayon (Gyasi). The tone here is different as well — instead of being immersed in the gritty, wretched life of those on Carinval Row, we are now faced with the conundrum (from Imogene’s perspective) of about having an undesired fae neighbor move in next door. While the first clip showed Imogene and her brother faltering when realizing their new wealthy neighbor is fae, the second clip has Agreus at her door, offering a bargain to help her out with her financial troubles if she offers him a doorway into high society.
‘Carnival Row’ Introduces A Sprawling Fantasy World Full Of Class Struggles [Comic-Con 2019]
By Vanessa Armstrong/July 20, 2019 12:30 pm EST
Read on for everything we learned at the Carnival Row Comic-Con panel.
Beacham’s comments on the show’s massive complexity and interweaving characters were echoed by the others on stage, including fellow executive producer Marc Guggenheim and actors Orlando Bloom (Rycroft Philostrate), Cara Delevingne (Vignette Stonemoss), Tamzin Merchant (Imogen Spurnrose), and David Gyasi (Agreus Astrayon). Based on the group’s comments and the clips shown to the SDCC audience (including the official release of its first trailer), the show is definitively expansive, taking on the complexities of an entire world while also giving time to the smaller and detailed moments of life on the Row.
Shared Clips Reveal Conflicts Large and Small
The audience got a glimpse of these varying scopes through four clips played during the panel. The first two pieces of footage gave an overview of the larger conflict in this mythical world, and were told from the points of view of the main characters — the human Detective Rycroft Philostrate (Bloom) and fairy Vignette Stonemoss (Delevingne). We find out that the two are star-crossed lovers, brought together and then torn apart by a war between the humans and the fae. Both of them have ended up on Carnival Row, a street in a Victorian London-esque town where the fae are refugees and often treated with animalistic cruelty. The clips also highlight that there’s a serial killer on the loose: a creature, neither human nor fae, that is going around the Row disemboweling people.The third and fourth clips moved toward the posh part of the town, and focused on the human aristocrat Imogene Spurnrose (Merchant) and her new neighbor, the puck Agreus Astrayon (Gyasi). The tone here is different as well — instead of being immersed in the gritty, wretched life of those on Carinval Row, we are now faced with the conundrum (from Imogene’s perspective) of about having an undesired fae neighbor move in next door. While the first clip showed Imogene and her brother faltering when realizing their new wealthy neighbor is fae, the second clip has Agreus at her door, offering a bargain to help her out with her financial troubles if she offers him a doorway into high society.
