Netflix has closed the deal to start out manufacturing on a prequel for hit collection The Crown, in keeping with the Each day Mail. The streaming firm has reportedly been in talks with the present’s producer, Left Financial institution Footage, for prequels since 2022, even earlier than The Crown’s final season got here out in late 2023. Now, offers have been struck, and Left Financial institution has obtained the inexperienced mild to formally begin engaged on the mission.
The prequel will cowl the British royal household’s lives from the time Queen Victoria died in 1901 till the start of the occasions within the authentic collection, significantly when the then-Princess Elizabeth married Philip Mountbatten. In the event you’ll recall, The Crown’s first episode was actually an outline of that royal wedding ceremony. The Each day Mail mentioned the businesses have allotted £500 million ($681 million) for the prequel’s manufacturing, which will even be helmed by The Crown creator Peter Morgan.
Morgan beforehand mentioned that he wasn’t accomplished with the topic but however could not think about himself desirous to sort out more moderen occasions. The Crown’s final season already lined Prince William and Catherine’s relationship, in addition to King Charles and Queen Camilla’s. “I’d discover a way of coming into it from a unique means,” he mentioned. “In the event you return in time, you at all times have that fantastic alternative for metaphor.”
Whereas Netflix has but to substantiate the story, giving The Crown’s prequel the go-ahead to start out manufacturing does not sound out of left discipline. The unique present obtained the lone streaming win on the SAG Awards again in 2018, and it helped Netflix dominate the Golden Globes just a few years later. It was a success with the viewers, as properly, and constantly topped Netflix’s charts.
