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 |
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A League of Their Own | Series about about the WWII All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. | Trayce Gigi Field | August 12, 2022, on Amazon |
Leonardo | Leonardo da Vinci miniseries starring Aidan Turner. | Alessandro Lai | August 16, 2022, on The CW |
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 Serpent Queen | A miniseries about Catherine de Medici. | Karen Muller Serreau | September 11, 2022, on Starz |
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 |
The Railway Children Return | A group of children are evacuated to a Yorkshire village during WWII. | Dinah Collin | September 23, 2022 |
Blonde | A fictionalized chronicle of the inner life of Marilyn Monroe. | Jennifer Johnson | September 28, 2022, on Netflix |
The Empress | Series about Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria-Hungary & his soon-to-be wife, Elisabeth, aka Sisi. | September 29, 2022, on Netflix | |
Interview With the Vampire | TV series inspired by the Anne Rice book & set in the 1910s. | Carol Cutshall | October 2, 2022, on AMC |
Catherine, Called Birdy | Movie about a 14-year-old girl in medieval England, based on a novel by Karen Cushman. | Julian Day | October 7, 2022 |
Emily | Biopic of Emily Brontë. | Michael O'Connor | October 14, 2022 |
Rosaline | A comedic retelling of "Romeo and Juliet," from the point of view of Romeo's jilted ex, Rosaline. | Mitchell Travers | October 14, 2022, on Hulu |
Amsterdam | "Set in the '30s, it follows three friends who witness a murder, become suspects themselves, & uncover one of the most outrageous plots in American history." | J.R. Hawbaker & Albert Wolsky | November 4, 2022 |
Dangerous Liaisons | Miniseries adaption of Pierre Choderlos de Laclos' 18th-c. novel. | November 6, 2022, on Starz | |
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 |
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 |
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 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 |
King's Land | Set in 1755 about Ludvig Kahlen who cultivated the wild heath of Jutland. | 2023 | |
My Lady Jane | Comedy series about Lady Jane Grey, based on a series of YA historical fiction novels. | Stephanie Collie | 2023 on Amazon |
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 | |
Shōgun | Miniseries, based on James Clavell’s novel, about an English sailor in 17th-c. Japan. | Carlos Rosario | 2023 on FX |
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 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." | 2024 on Hulu | |
The Ballad of Renegade Nell | Miniseries about a female bandit during the reign of Queen Anne of England. | Tom Pye | Disney+ |
The Buccaneers | A new adaption of Edith Wharton’s unfinished final novel. | Apple TV | |
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 | |
The Donner Party | Miniseries about the ill-fated 1846 group of American pioneers headed to California. | ||
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." | ||
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 Shelley Society | Young Mary Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, & Lord Byron battle supernatural threats. | HBO Max | |
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 |