Netflix's 'The Crown' Season 3: The Next Generation
Netflix's The Crown enters its first major transition period as Elizabeth's generation are recast to age up, and Charles comes into his own.
The Queen Mother: No one wants complexity and reality from us. Do sit down.
When Netflix announced back in 2014 that they were commissioning an ambitious six season series from Peter Morgan, writer of the 2006 film The Queen, focusing on the life and times of the current reigning English monarch, the scale of what they were proposing shocked many. Not only were they greenlighting six seasons of a completely untested show sight unseen, they were committing to spending $100 million per season, an outrageous sum, even by prestige TV standards. But the real ambition was in scale. The six seasons would cover Queen Elizabeth II from her early 20s to her late 70s -- and rather than cast someone who could play her at one age and then be made up to do the rest, the show planned to recast the entire show every two years to age the characters up in accordance with the story.
