Upcoming Movies
Historical Costume Movies/TV in the Works
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 | U.S. Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Porter | In the 1920s, railway workers from Canada & the U.S. start the world's first Black union. | Heather Neale | May 5, 2022, on BET+ |
| The Essex Serpent | A Victorian widow encounters a mysterious local superstition. | Jane Petrie | May 13, 2022, on Apple TV |
| Downton Abbey: A New Era | More of the Crawley family and Downton staff in the 1920s. | Anna Robbins | May 20, 2022 |
| Becoming Elizabeth | Miniseries about the early years of Queen Elizabeth I. | Bartholomew Cariss | June 12, 2022, on Starz |
| Mr. Malcolm's List | A young woman courts a mysterious wealthy suitor in 19th-century England. | July 1, 2022 | |
| Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris | A 1950s cleaning lady falls in love with a couture Dior dress. | Jenny Beavan | July 15, 2022 |
| Persuasion | A Jane Austen adaption starring Dakota Johnson. | Marianne Agertoft | July 15, 2022, on Netflix |
| Medieval | 14th-century Czech icon and warlord Jan Zizka defeats armies of the Teutonic Order and the Holy Roman Empire. | Katerina Mirová | September 9, 2022 |
| The Woman King | A historical epic about the Kingdom of Dahomey, one of the most powerful states of Africa in the 18th and 19th centuries. | Gersha Phillips | September 16, 2022 |
| Catherine, Called Birdy | Movie about a 14-year-old girl in medieval England, based on a novel by Karen Cushman. | September 23, 2022 | |
| Blonde | A fictionalized chronicle of the inner life of Marilyn Monroe. | Jennifer Johnson | December 2022 on Netflix |
| 1899 | "Multinational immigrants traveling from the old continent to the new encounter a nightmarish riddle aboard a second ship adrift on the open sea." | Bina Daigeler | 2022 on Netflix |
| Banking on Mr. Toad | Biopic of writer Kenneth Grahame and the birth of his iconic story 'The Wind in the Willows.' | Vin Burnham | 2022 |
| Brideshead Revisited | Another remake of the Evelyn Waugh novel, now by the BBC. | 2022 | |
| The Confessions of Frannie Langton | Set in Georgian London, this miniseries tells of a woman's journey from a Jamaican plantation to the grand Mayfair mansion. | Nigel Egerton | 2022 |
| Corsage | "As her 40th birthday approaches, beautiful Empress Elisabeth of Austria is thrown into turmoil as she anticipates being considered an old woman." | Monika Buttinger | 2022 |
| Couleurs de l'incendie | "Paris, 1927. After the death of her father, Madeleine Péricourt should have inherited his financial empire but she fell prey to a conspiracy leading her to ruin. Now she will have her vengeance." | Pierre-Jean Larroque | 2022 |
| Diane de Poitiers | Isabelle Adjani stars as the famous royal mistress; Gerard Depardieu is Nostradamus. French TV miniseries. | Cyril Fontaine | 2022 |
| The Empress | Series about Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria-Hungary & his soon-to-be wife, Elisabeth, aka Sisi. | 2022 on Netflix | |
| Emperor | Action epic about a young girl who seeks revenge on the holy roman Emperor Charles V for the death of her father. | Francesca Sartori | 2022 |
| Interview With the Vampire | TV series inspired by the Anne Rice book & set in the 1920s. | Carol Cutshall | 2022 on AMC |
| Lady Chatterley's Lover | A new adaption of D.H. Lawrence's novel. | 2022 on Netflix | |
| Marie Antoinette | TV series produced in France & co-written by one of the screenwriters of The Favourite. | Marie Frémont | 2022 |
| The Railway Children Return | A group of children are evacuated to a Yorkshire village during WWII. | Dinah Collin | 2022 |
| The Wonder | A psychological thriller starring Florence Pugh and set in the Irish Midlands in 1862. | Odile Dicks-Mireaux | 2022 on Netflix |
| Babylon | Rumored to be set in 1920s Hollywood with Margot Robbie as Clara Bow. | Mary Zophres | January 6, 2023 |
| Last Voyage of the Demeter | Based on a chapter, from Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula, set aboard a ship from Carpathia to London. | Carlo Poggioli | January 27, 2023 |
| Roosevelt | A biopic about President Theodore Roosevelt starring Leonardo DiCaprio. | July 14, 2023 | |
| Oppenheimer | Movie about American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer & the atomic bomb. | Ellen Mirojnick | July 21, 2023 |
| The Nightingale | The lives of two sisters living in France are torn apart at the onset of World War II. Based on Kristin Hannah's novel. | 2023 | |
| The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan | The story of one of the Three Musketeers. | Thierry Delettre | 2023 |
| The Three Musketeers: Milady | Sequel to 'D'Artagnan,' being filmed back-to-back. | Thierry Delettre | 2023 |
| The Ballad of Renegade Nell | Miniseries about a female bandit during the reign of Queen Anne of England. | Tom Pye | Disney+ |
| Chevalier | Movie about the son of an African slave who rose to great heights in Marie-Antoinette's court as a violinist and champion fencer. | Oliver Garcia | |
| Cleopatra | Gal Gadot as the legendary Egyptian pharaoh. | ||
| The Custom of the Country | TV series based the Edith Wharton novel about a woman who rises to the top of New York high society in the early 20th century. | Apple TV | |
| Dangerous Liaisons | Miniseries prequel based on the 18th-century novel. | Starz | |
| The Devil in the White City | "An architect works to build up the 1893 Worlds Fair, while a serial killer uses the fair to attract and kill women." | ||
| The Donner Party | Miniseries about the ill-fated 1846 group of American pioneers headed to California. | ||
| Emily | Biopic of Emily Brontë. | Michael O'Connor | |
| The English | Emily Blunt in a Western TV series. | Phoebe de Gaye | |
| The Farnsworth House | The story of the relationship in 1947 between architect Mies Van der Rohe and his client Dr. Edith Farnsworth building the landmark Farnsworth House near Chicago. | ||
| Firebrand | A film about Queen Catherine Parr and Henry VIII's marriage. | ||
| Glow & Darkness | Series about the intertwined stories of Saladin, Emperor Barbarossa, Richard the Lionheart, Philip Augustus, Francis of Assisi, & Eleanor of Aquitaine. | ||
| The History of Sound | Two young men fall in love during World War I as they record the lives & music of their American countrymen. | ||
| Kill the Light | Murder mystery in 1930s London about a theater critic, newspaper owner (Colin Firth), & actress (Gemma Arterton). | ||
| The King | "King Kamehameha fulfills his life-long prophecy of uniting the Hawaiian islands." | ||
| A League of Their Own | Series about about the WWII All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. | Trayce Gigi Field | Amazon |
| Longbourn | The lives of the servants of Longbourn House, home to the Bennet family of Jane Austen's 'Pride & Prejudice.' | ||
| The Man Who Saved Paris | The most successful brothel owner in Paris during the 1940's is asked by the government to restore the city's image after the Nazi Occupation. | ||
| Maya Lord | "The story of 16th-century Spaniard, Gonzalo Guerrero, who was held captive by a Mayan tribe and eventually converts to their ways and beliefs and fights for them against the Spanish." | ||
| Napoleon | A Napoleon Bonaparte biopic directed by Ridley Scott and starring Joaquin Phoenix. | Janty Yates | |
| Radical Eye: The Life and Times of Tina Modotti | Biopic of Italian photographer, model, actress, & revolutionary political activist starring Monica Bellucci. | ||
| Seacole | The story of Mary Seacole, a Jamaican nurse who sought to work with Florence Nightingale during the Crimean War. | Luminita Lungu | |
| The Serpent Queen | A miniseries about Catherine de Medici. | Karen Muller Serreau | Starz |
| The Shelley Society | Young Mary Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, & Lord Byron battle supernatural threats. | HBO Max | |
| Sherlock Holmes vs. Frankenstein | In 1898, Sherlock Holmes & Doctor Watson travel to Germany to investigate a strange case near Castle Frankenstein. | Pierre-Jean Larroque | |
| Shōgun | Miniseries, based on James Clavell’s novel, about an English sailor in 17th-c. Japan. | Carlos Rosario | FX |
| Tom Jones | A new TV adaption of the 1749 Henry Fielding novel. | Hazel Webb Crozier | PBS |
| Untitled Queen Charlotte Project | Bridgerton prequel about Queen Charlotte's arrival to England. | Lyn Paolo | Netflix |
