Högni Egilsson (Touch, Under the Tree, Against the Current) has composed the original score for the new BBC drama King & Conqueror. The show is created by Michael Robert Johnson (Sherlock Holmes, Pompeii) and stars James Norton, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Emily Beecham, Eddie Marsan, Clémence Poésy, Juliet Stevenson, Clare Holman, Bo Bragason, Luther Ford and Indy Lewis. The 8-part historical drama tells the story of Harold of Wessex and William of Normandy, two allies who were destined to meet at the Battle of Hastings in 1066 and found themselves forced by circumstance and personal obsession into a war for possession of its crown.