Frock Flicks in the Works
Historical costume movies and TV series premiering soon or in production that we’ve heard about. Yes, the dates are U.S.-centric, that’s how we roll.| Title | Description | Costume Designer | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Death by Lightning | Miniseries about the assassination of 20th U.S. President James Garfield. | Michael Wilkinson | November 6, 2025, on Netflix |
| Frankenstein | Writer/director Guillermo del Toro's version of Mary Shelley's classic tale. | Kate Hawley | November 7, 2025, on Netflix |
| Nuremberg | A WWII psychiatrist evaluates Nazi leaders before the Nuremberg trials. | Bartholomew Cariss | November 7, 2025 |
| Sarah's Oil | An African American girl in the early 1900s believes there's oil under her land. | Michael T. Boyd | November 7, 2025 |
| Last Samurai Standing | Set in 1878, where samurais gather for a battle royale. TV series based on a novel by Shogo Imamura. | Masae Miyamoto | November 13, 2025 on Netflix |
| The Seduction | A Dangerous Liaisons prequel following the rise to power of the young Isabelle de Merteuil. | November 14, 2025, on HBO Max | |
| The Abandons | Lena Headey and Gillian Anderson head two warring families in the Old West. | Roland Sanchez | December 4, 2025 on Netflix |
| Fackham Hall | A parody of Downton Abbey-type period dramas with a murder-mystery thrown in. | Rosalind Ebbutt | December 5, 2025 |
| Hamnet | William Shakespeare's wife deals with the loss of her son, Hamnet. | Malgosia Turzanska | December 12, 2025 |
| A Ghost Story for Christmas: the Room in the Tower | Joanna Lumley and Tobias Menzies in a 1930s(?)-set episode. | Tess Raggett | December 24, 2025 |
| The Choral | A choral society's members enlist in WWI, & teen boys to take their place. | Jenny Beavan | December 25, 2025 |
| Marty Supreme | Film about a professional table tennis player in the 1940s, starring Timothée Chalamet. | Miyako Bellizzi | December 25, 2025 |
| The Testament of Ann Lee | Amanda Seyfried as the founder of the Shaker movement. | Malgorzata Karpiuk | December 25, 2025 (limited) |
| Amadeus | A TV reimagining of the Mozart / Salieri story from Peter Shaffer’s play. | Lisa Duncan | December 2025 |
| Duse | The Italian stage diva Eleonora Duse, through the latter part of her life when her career is over. | Ursula Patzak | 2025 |
| Jean Valjean | Adaptation of the first 100 pages of Victor Hugo's 'Les Misérables.' | Madeline Fontaine | 2025 |
| Dracula | Another version of Bram Stoker's tale. | Corinne Bruand | February 6, 2026 |
| Wuthering Heights | Another big-screen version of Emily Bronte's novel. | Jacqueline Durran | February 13, 2026 |
| The Bride | In 1930s Chicago, Frankenstein asks Dr. Euphronius to help create a companion. | Sandy Powell | March 6, 2026 |
| The Forsyte Saga | Series based on John Galsworthy's novels & set in 1880s London. | Nic Ede | March 22, 2026, on PBS |
| The Count of Monte Cristo | TV series based on the Dumas novel. | Ursula Patzak | March 22, 2026, on PBS |
| The Odyssey | Director Christopher Nolan's take on the Greek classic. | Ellen Mirojnick | July 17, 2026 |
| The Death of Robin Hood | Hugh Jackman stars as Robin Hood grappling with his past life of crime. | Lorna Marie Mugan | 2026 |
| Furcy, né libre | The true story of Furcy, a slave in a French colony who achieves legal emancipation. | 2026 | |
| Hershey | Biopic of Milton & Kitty Hershey, who founded the chocolate company in the 19th century. | Katie Irish | 2026 |
| Les Misérables | A new adaptation of Victor Hugo's famous novel. | Pierre-Jean Larroque | 2026 |
| The Age of Innocence | TV remake of the Edith Wharton novel set in the 1870s. | Netflix | |
| The Bitter End | Movie about Wallis Simpson's final years, starring Joan Collins. | Charlotte Law | |
| La Casa de los EspÃritus | A TV adaption of Isabel Allende's novel about a Chilean family over the course of a century. | Amazon | |
| The Detection Club | In 1930s London, crime writers Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, & G.K. Chesterton solve real murders. | BritBox | |
| Ena. La reina Victoria Eugenia | Miniseries about Victoria Eugenia, Queen of Spain in the early 20th century. | Zulma Velázquez | |
| Fever | Biopic of singer Peggy Lee, starting with her first #1 single in 1942. | Sandy Powell | |
| Fools | During Mary Tudor's reign, a cardinal vies for power, but the jester Jane Foole gets in his way. | ||
| The Idiots | A woman saves the life of writer Fyodor Dostoevsky & founds her own publishing house. | ||
| The Immortal Man | The Peaky Blinders movie. | Alison McCosh | |
| Iron Ribbon | Film about Stanislawa Uminska, a Polish actress on trial in the 1920s for a sensational criminal case. | Dinah Collin | |
| L'Inverno | WWII romance involving a Jewish violinist & a SS officer. | Gabriella Pescucci | |
| Jehanne d'Arc | Director Baz Luhrmann takes on the historical Joan of Arc. | ||
| Late in Summer | WWII romance involving a farmer's wife & a Black American GI. | Jenny Beavan | |
| The Legend of Van Dorn | A Civil War drama. | Christian Micheal Shuster | |
| Little House on the Prairie | New TV series based on the Laura Ingalls Wilder books. | Mitchell Travers | Netflix |
| Longbourn | The lives of the servants of Longbourn House, home to the Bennet family of Jane Austen's 'Pride & Prejudice.' | Charlotte Walter | |
| Lucia | Movie about James Joyce's daughter Lucia, a dancer in 1920s Paris. | ||
| Madfabulous | Indie film about flamboyant & rebellious 19th-c. Lord Paget. | Francisco Rodriguez-Weil | |
| Marama | A Maori gothic revenge horror story set in 1859 England. | Sarah Voon | |
| Monstrous Beauty | A woman born with a rare condition becomes a playwright at King Charles II's court. | Annie Symons | |
| Mozart Mozart | German series imagines what if Maria Anna Mozart secretly wrote some of her brother's work. | Daiva Petrulyte | |
| The Other Bennet Sister | A miniseries about Mary Bennet. | BritBox | |
| The Peasant | Dev Patel as a 14th-c. shepherd seeking revenge against those who ravaged his community. | ||
| Pride and Prejudice | A new TV miniseries adaption of the Jane Austen story. | Charlotte Walter | Netflix |
| Primavera | A talented violinist in an orphanage meets Vivaldi, who becomes her teacher. | Maria Rita Barbera | |
| Sense and Sensibility | A big-screen remake of the Jane Austen classic. | Grace Snell | |
| The Seven Dials Mystery | Another TV version of Agatha Christie's 1925 country house murder-mystery. | Amy Roberts | Netflix |
| Sherlock Holmes vs. Frankenstein | A horror-mystery tale set in 1898. | Pierre-Jean Larroque | |
| Steal Away | Founding of the Fisk Jubilee Singers, an HBCU choir, in the 1870s. | ||
| A Tale of Two Cities | TV miniseries of Charles Dickens' classic. | MGM+ | |
| Van Gogh | Biopic of the artist Vincent Van Gogh. | ||
| Vienna Game | TV series about the 1814 Congress of Vienna diplomatic meeting. | Elisabeth Binder-Neururer | |
| Virginia Woolf's Night & Day | Based on the 1910s novel where an astronomer is determined to avoid love & marriage. | Esther Walz | |
| Young Sherlock | TV series about a 19-year-old Sherlock Holmes solving mysteries at Oxford. | Jany Temime | Amazon |
