Brilliant and passionate, the 25-year-old Leonardo da Vinci is an artist, inventor, swordsman, lover, dreamer and idealist. As a free thinker, with intellect and talents that are almost superhuman, he struggles to live within the confines of his own reality and time. He begins to not only see the future, but invent it.
Tonight, Starz will premiere their highly anticipated David S. Goyer series Da Vinci’s Demons at 10/9c, following the season finale of Spartacus: War of the Damned. For those who may not know, Goyer co-wrote the screenplays for The Dark Knight Trilogy and the upcoming Superman film Man of Steel, which has had fans eagerly waiting for a similarly dark and layered treatment to breathe new life into the story of Leonardo da Vinci. Like Showtime’s hit series The Tudors, Da Vinci’s Demons introduces us to our hero while he’s still a vital young man — seemingly moving forward as an interpretive piece of art, in the spirit of who this man was and what he could do, rather than a point-by-point historical documentary. Its premiere season will consist of eight episodes.
Curious? Check out the first four minutes below:
Can’t wait until tonight? Don’t have Starz? For fans in the US, the network is offering the show for free, right here:
And the official description of the show from Starz:
In a world where thought and faith are controlled, one man fights to set knowledge free.
The secret history of Leonardo da Vinci’s tantalizing life reveals a portrait of a young man tortured by a gift of superhuman genius. He is a heretic and skeptic intent on exposing the lies of religion. An insurgent seeking to subvert an elitist society. A bastard son who yearns for legitimacy with his father.
He finds himself in the midst of a storm that has been brewing for centuries. A conflict between truth and lies, religion and science, past and future. His aspirations to improve his position in life bring him into contact with the two opposing forces of the time—the Vatican and the Medici family who both try and lure him onto their side.
Leonardo must take up the fight against foes who use history to suppress the truth. A hero armed only with his genius, da Vinci stands alone against the darkness within, and the darkness without. Facing an uncertain future, his quest for knowledge nearly becomes his undoing as he explores the fringes of his own sanity. Da Vinci uses his unparalleled genius as a weapon against his enemies and emerges as an unstoppable force that lifts an entire era out of darkness and propels it into light.
His story becomes a mirror into our own world, calling us all to join his fight to Free the Future.
Stay tuned for DarkMedia’s continued coverage of Da Vinci’s Demons.
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