This adaptation changes several aspects of the original legend of Helen. The gods play almost no role in the characters' lives, Helen is not shown to have any children and it's not explained how Cassandra supposedly got her powers. Instead, the series plays the story like a brutal historical event with little supernatural elements.
Maryam d'Abo and John Rhys-Davies previously appeared in The Living Daylights.
At one point Helen is shown wearing a reproduction of the famous "Diadem of Helen," part of "Priam's Treasure" unearthed in 1873 by the German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann at Hissarlik Turkey, the presumed site of ancient Troy, and now on display at the Pushkin Museum in Moscow. It has since been determined that the diadem actually dates from an earlier culture about one thousand years before Homeric Troy.
First nude scenes for Sienna Guillory.
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