331. How Does ‘The Pendragon Cycle’ Fight for Freedom and Build the Future? | with Jeremy Boreing

The Pendragon Cycle streaming series began with a slower start for its January release on Daily Wire Plus. Well, this month, everything changed. Based on the first two volumes in Stephen R. Lawhead’s series, The Pendragon Cycle worked its new wizardry to reach the top three shows on Prime Video. Let’s go behind the scenes of the Cycle, touching on controversies but staying pre-political and pre-medieval as we explore how Christian creators fight to build the future. Today we’re joined by The Pendragon Cycle series creator Jeremy Boreing.

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Mission update

(We didn’t mention these in the show; they broke soon afterward.)

• ‘The Pendragon Cycle: Rise of the Merlin’ Honors the Foundational Myths of Western Civilization, A. D. Sheehan, Sept. 21, 2026
• Today It’s Official: Meryl Streep Voices Aslan in Netflix’s ‘Rock Inspired’ Perversion of Narnia, E. Stephen Burnett, Sept. 17
• Review of A.M. Daylin’s fantasy Eventide, Stephany Araujo
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Backstory: Jeremy Boreing

Jeremy Boreing is a writer, filmmaker, producer, and co-founder of The Daily Wire. He is the host of The Jeremy Boreing Show and the series creator of The Pendragon Cycle. That streaming adaptation of Stephen R. Lawhead’s fantasy epic retells the origins of Merlin and King Arthur. It premiered Jan. 2026 on Daily Wire Plus. Then in July 2026, Pendragon debuted on Prime Video UK and hit the number 1 fantasy series. By the following month, August 2026, Pendragon debuted on Prime Video in the United States and reached the number 2 most-viewed show on that platform.

Boreing’s past work in political media includes co-founding the conservative news and commentary website TruthRevolt, serving as executive director of Friends of Abe network, and co-founding Declaration Entertainment with Bill Whittle. He’s also the co-founder and former CEO of The Daily Wire commentary network.

• The Pendragon Cycle: Rise of the Merlin on Prime Video (U.S.)
• The Jeremy Boreing Show on Spotify
• The Jeremy Boreing Show on YouTube

Quotes and notes

Last night [Nov. 13, 2022], cultural conservative fans learned media company The Daily Wire could adapt Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged into a streaming series.

But for Christian fantastical fiction fans, the buried lede is actually this:

[Daily Wire co-CEO Jeremy] Boreing also announced a slate of major projects in development, including: . . .

An exclusive option to develop and produce feature film and television series adaptations for all six books in Stephen R. Lawhead’s “THE PENDRAGON CYCLE”

Daily Wire co-CEO Jeremy Boreing announced Nov. 17 that the cultural conservative streamer will debut the Arthurian saga …

Boreing elaborated in a Nov. 17 livestream:

“While Atlas has shaped the worldview of millions of people around the globe, there’s a series of books that I read as a teenager that, more than any other, helped shape my worldview. It’s based on perhaps the most impactful myth in the Western tradition—the legend of King Arthur. And it’s called The Pendragon Cycle by Stephen R. Lawhead. And today, I’m beyond thrilled to announce that the DailyWire+ has secured the rights to this unbelievable work.

“This is an incredible story about the fall of the Roman occupation in Great Britain, and the rise of Christianity in the blood-soaked pagan islands—British Isles. It’s the most ambitious thing we’ve ever set about to do. And it’s going to be incredible.”

Daily Wire Announces Streaming Series Based on Stephen R. Lawhead’s Pendragon Cycle, Lorehaven, Nov. 18

• “I Created the #1 Fantasy Show in America. It Nearly Broke Me.”, Jeremy Boreing on YouTube, Sept. 4, 2026