More expensive than Game of Thrones, the new Netflix series costs 100 million British pounds!
There are quite a lot of things you could buy with £100m, that is roughly 130 million US Dollars, or 6 Billion Pesos! But Netflix spent to making a 10-episode series about the British royal family called The Crown that’s even more expensive than HBO’s Game of Thrones. The jewels don’t come cheap, but neither does the sky-high acting talent in The Crown.
In the role of the young Elizabeth II is Claire Foy, who’s previously given stellar performances in award-winning period dramas like the BBC’s 2008 adaptation of Little Dorrit, and as Queen Anne Boleyn in 2015’s Wolf Hall. Opposite her, as Prince Philip, is Matt Smith of Doctor Who and Pride And Prejudice And Zombies.
The Chief Operating Officer of Netflix Ted Sarandos described The Crown as one of the company’s “brand-defining, tentpole shows”.
According to Variety, Sarandos said the show “is produced to a scale that I don’t think many networks could step up to”.
“Because our audience is large and global, and the story is incredibly local we can invest heavily in a project like that,” he said.
Netflix, the streaming giant’s next original program The Crown—produced by Sony Pictures’ UK-based production company, Left Bank Pictures—is set to debut on Nov. 4.
Watch the trailer below.
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