Netflix The Crown Prequel Reportedly Greenlit in $500 Million Deal

Netflix has reportedly agreed a $500 cardinal woody for a prequel to The Crown, that volition travel the British royal household pursuing the decease of Queen Victoria.

The caller bid volition erstwhile again written by The Crown mastermind Peter Morgan, The Telegraph has stated, and volition dramatize the 5 decades from the extremity of the Victorian epoch successful 1901.

While not yet confirmed by Netflix itself, the task has reportedly been successful talks for immoderate time, and would beryllium a large caller concern believed to tally for aggregate seasons. Indeed, the bid is expected to extremity with the wedding of Princess (later Queen) Elizabeth successful 1947 — the lawsuit which kickstarted Season 1 of the archetypal show.

The Crown ran for six seasons connected Netflix and garnered captious acclaim, peculiarly for its earlier years — earlier the amusement began to drawback up with the contiguous time and woody with immoderate of the Royals' much messy modern affairs.

Morgan has antecedently said it would beryllium "too soon" to dramatize adjacent much caller events — specified arsenic the decease of Queen Elizabeth II and coronation of King Charles III — but was funny successful telling much of the royal family's history.

"For the clip being, I cannot ideate immoderate circumstances successful which I'd privation to spell further into the present, arsenic it were, but astatine the aforesaid time, I don’t deliberation I'm done with the subject," Morgan said previously. "I mightiness find immoderate mode of coming into it from a antithetic way. If you spell backmost successful time, you ever person that fantastic accidental for metaphor. You tin find a communicative successful the past and archer that, and it [will] really beryllium a communicative astir the present, but successful camouflage. And that, I think, mightiness beryllium a much elegant mode forward."

"The Crown's sixth and last play coasts connected the prowess of its cast, leaning truthful hard into its leads' strengths that it often neglects to marque its different elements interesting," we wrote successful IGN's The Crown Season 6 review, standing its past tally of episodes with a 5/10.

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