Forget The Crown Return: Its Creator Too Busy Reviving Another Political Mess on Broadway
Peter Morgan is seemingly going in a different, yet still political direction.
Summary:
- Despite reports about Netflix ’s big plans for bringing The Crown ’s universe back to its screens, it may take quite some time for the show’s creator Peter Morgan to join the production.
- For the time being, Morgan is primarily focused on a TV version of his own stage play about one of Russia’s most influential businessmen back in the 1990s.
- Morgan’s play is currently attracting everyone’s attention on Broadway, but there’s still a chance that The Crown’s creator will get involved in a prequel production.
However enthusiastic Netflix may be about The Crown’s revival, the show’s creator Peter Morgan has a very different priority.
With the recent rumors that suggest the streaming giant made a U-turn regarding the royal family’s story brought on screen, some may already be raving about The Crown’s potential prequel diving deeper into the royals’ life and its piquant details.
Though nothing has yet been decided about it for sure, it still seems like Netflix needs to be patient for a while as Morgan proceeds with its Broadway show’s big plans.
Are They Reviving The Crown?
According to Deadline’s reports, Peter Morgan is currently keeping himself busy with bringing his Broadway play Patriots to bigger screens. The brand new Broadway show that kicked its 12-week run off earlier in April stars Michael Stuhlbarg as Russian billionaire Boris Berezovsky recounting the latter’s story through his personal interaction with then deputy mayor of St. Petersburg Vladimir Putin.
Before finding a new home on Broadway, Morgan’s stage play about the Soviet Union’s inevitable collapse had its first big premiere back in 2022 in London and later was once again brought to the British theater’s stage in 2023.
Both times Berezovsky’s role was given to British actor Tom Hollander while Will Keen portrayed Putin. Keen is also reprising his role in the Broadway’s version this year.
Despite not having The Crown-related plans for the near future, Peter Morgan has been repeatedly stating that he would still love to expand The Crown’s universe with a potential time-travel twist, setting the show at the time of Queen Victoria’s death in 1901.
Several reports have recently dropped a bombshell that Netflix is planning a big return for The Crown coming up with its sequel, most likely about Edward VII’s reign time.
Source: Deadline