Hey, do you remember a Knight's Tale?

Hello and welcome to Hey Do You Remember, A Night's Tale? Hello and welcome to Heyady Remember, a show where we reminisce about a movie or TV series we grew up with, then take off the rose-tinted glasses to see how it holds up.

I'm Chris.

I'm Donna.

And I'm Carlos.

And today we're revisiting A Night's Tale.

Thank you. And I'm Carlos. And today we're revisiting a Knights Tale. Jeffrey Chaucer is one of the most renowned and studied writers of all time.

His poetry has earned him the moniker, The Father of English Literature.

And although historians have done their best to date all of his major works,

there's still some debate when it comes to mapping out a wholly accurate timeline.

For writer-director Brian Helgeland,

a period of about six months to a year where Chaucer remains largely unaccounted for, provided

an interesting jumping-off point for the premise of a movie. But if you're interested in an

accurate depiction of the renowned author, keep looking. Helgelin designed a knight's tale from the ground up

to be brazenly anachronistic. Despite the fact that it took place in the 14th century, he wanted it to

look, sound, and feel modern. To that end, he encouraged all of his department heads to take

liberties with their contributions as well. He favored attitude over

authenticity. And we'll absolutely expand on that decision and Helgelin's reasoning for it as we go

along. But I have to say, the timing for this is great. I just watched and really enjoyed

Lovecraft Country on HBO. And that's also deliberately anachronistic in a lot of

really interesting ways, and that got me thinking about just needle drops at first, using modern

songs in period pieces. I was actually going to pitch this as an episode of Off the Clock

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