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EXCLUSIVE: After producing nan 2024 Netflix docuseries Polo, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are revisiting nan world successful a scripted form. The streamer is processing a polo-themed drama, which nan Sussexes are executive producing nether their Netflix deal. It comes from nan duo’s Archewell Productions and Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage’s Fake Empire.
Written by Francisca X. Hu (Peacock’s Teacup), nan untitled task is an upstairs-downstairs play group successful nan high-flying equestrian municipality of Wellington, Florida, which revolves astir nan messy dynamics betwixt 2 rival teams and nan families that lead them.
Hu executive nutrient alongside Archewell’s Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex; Meghan, Duchess of Sussex; and caput of scripted contented Tracy Ryerson; arsenic good arsenic Fake Empire’s Schwartz and Savage.
The play is believed to stem from nan docuseries Polo, which followed nan teams competing astatine the U.S. Open Polo Championship held successful Wellington, Florida, and nan family dynasties involved. A passion task of Prince Harry, an avid polo subordinate who has a batch of friends successful that world, nan docuseries did not tie a batch of eyeballs and ran for 1 season. The scripted show is widening nan scope of what is considered an elitist, “sport of kings” beyond nan rich | owners and prima players.
The polo play is 1 of a fistful of projects Prince Harry and Markle person successful improvement astatine Netflix nether their deal, which was antecedently wide and is now first-look.
They see features The Wedding Date, which, arsenic Deadline revealed successful December, Tracy Oliver has travel connected committee to write based connected Jasmine Guillory’s book, and an adjustment of Carley Fortune’s Meet Me At The Lake. I head is now being attached to nan second and is expected to do a rewrite, sources said.
Work connected nan projects continues amid a precocious level of scrutiny pursuing Netflix’s caller pullout arsenic an investor successful Markle’s manner marque As Ever and nan streamer’s docuseries utilized arsenic a launchpad for nan brand, With Love, Meghan, not going beyond its first two-season order.
“We still person a narration pinch them,” Netflix’s Chief Content Officer Bela Bajaria said past week astatine nan Next connected Netflix arena erstwhile asked by Deadline astir nan duo’s workings pinch nan world streamer, brushing disconnected reports that Netflix whitethorn beryllium “done” pinch them. “We person movies successful improvement pinch them. We person an astonishing doc pinch them. They person things successful improvement connected nan TV and movie side. Deals travel and spell each nan time, and we don’t renew truthful galore deals, those conscionable don’t get arsenic overmuch property for evident reasons. There’s nary juicy communicative there.”
This marks a re-teaming of Hu pinch Schwartz and Savage aft she served arsenic a writer-producer connected their CW play series Dynasty.
