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Netflix has closed nan woody to commencement accumulation connected a prequel for deed bid The Crown, according to nan Daily Mail. The streaming institution has reportedly been successful talks pinch nan show's producer, Left Bank Pictures, for prequels since 2022, moreover earlier The Crown's past play came retired successful precocious 2023. Now, deals person been struck, and Left Bank has received nan greenish ray to officially commencement moving connected nan project.
The prequel will screen nan British royal family's lives from nan clip Queen Victoria died successful 1901 until nan beginning of nan events successful nan original series, peculiarly erstwhile nan then-Princess Elizabeth married Philip Mountbatten. If you'll recall, The Crown's first section was virtually a depiction of that royal wedding. The Daily Mail said nan companies person allocated £500 cardinal ($681 million) for nan prequel's production, which will besides beryllium helmed by The Crown creator Peter Morgan.
Morgan antecedently said that he wasn't done pinch nan taxable yet but couldn't ideate himself wanting to tackle much caller events. The Crown's past play already covered Prince William and Catherine's relationship, arsenic good arsenic King Charles and Queen Camilla's. "I mightiness find immoderate measurement of coming into it from a different way," he said. "If you spell backmost successful time, you ever person that awesome opportunity for metaphor."
While Netflix has yet to corroborate nan story, giving The Crown's prequel nan go-ahead to commencement accumulation doesn't sound retired of near field. The original show got nan lone streaming win astatine nan SAG Awards backmost successful 2018, and it helped Netflix dominate nan Golden Globes a fewer years later. It was a deed pinch nan viewers, arsenic well, and consistently topped Netflix's charts.
