Is The Crown’s next step to go back in time?
Peter Morgan has revealed that he’s not finished with the royal Family yet.
the writer and producer behind the award- winning netflix series the Crown recently announced that the drama would end in its fifth season, with Imelda Staunton playing elizabeth II.
Morgan told me the last episode, which won’t be filmed until next year or the year after, would culminate with Britain entering the new millennium, and will be ‘explosive’.
He had, initially, sketched out storylines for six series of the Crown but changed his mind because ‘ there has to be distance’ between the events in the show and real life.
‘ You can’t fully examine incidents that happened yesterday. there has to be ten to 20 years’ distance. and in some instances much longer,’ said the man who also wrote the Queen for the screen, and the audience for the stage, both of which examined the present monarch’s relationship with her prime ministers.
Morgan did say, though, that he would like to revisit the royals five to ten years after season five of the Crown streams on netflix.
‘I don’t know yet, but I might go further backwards in time, perhaps before this Queen,’ he said.
In the past few months, real life inside the royal Family has, at times, seemed stranger than fiction.
Morgan observed that the last time life at Buckingham Palace had been ‘so turbulent’ was back in 1992 — a year the Queen dubbed her ‘annus horribilis’.
He said: ‘It’s a dangerously turbulent time and the only reason there hasn’t been more of a clamour is out of respect for the Queen and Philip.’
For now, Morgan and his colleagues are busy working on the fourth season of the Crown — which once again stars olivia Colman as Her Maj — as well as gearing up to work with Ms Staunton on the final episodes.