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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| The Harder They Fall | A Western with a mostly Black cast (including Idris Elba). | Antoinette Messam | November 3, 2021, on Netflix |
| The Electrical Life of Louis Wain | Biopic of an English artist who rose to prominence at the end of the 19th century. Starring Benedict Cumberbatch & Claire Foy. | Michael O'Connor | November 5, 2021, on Amazon |
| Passing | Mixed-race childhood friends reunite in adulthood and become involved with one another's lives. | Marci Rodgers | November 10, 2021 |
| The Great | Season 2 of this comedic look at Catherine the Great adds Gillian Anderson to the cast. | Sharon Long | November 19, 2021, on Hulu |
| Mothering Sunday | A maid living in post-World War I England secretly plans to meet with the man she loves before he leaves to marry another woman. | Sandy Powell | November 19, 2021 |
| Benedetta | "A 17th-century nun in Italy suffers from disturbing religious and erotic visions. She is assisted by a companion, and the relationship between the two women develops into a romantic love affair." | Pierre-Jean Larroque | December 3, 2021 |
| Anne Boleyn | Three-part miniseries about the final months of Boleyn's life. | Lynsey Moore | December 9, 2021, on AMC+ |
| West Side Story | Remake of the 1950s musical. | Paul Tazewell | December 10, 2021 |
| Being the Ricardos | The life and career of television pioneers, Lucille Ball & Desi Arnaz. | Susan Lyall | December 21, 2021, on Amazon |
| The King's Man | Ralph Fiennes in an Edwardian secret service/Marvel movie. | Michele Clapton | December 22, 2021 |
| The Tragedy of Macbeth | Denzel Washington & Frances McDormand star in this Shakespeare remake. | Mary Zophres | December 25, 2021 |
| Cyrano | The life of Cyrano de Bergerac starring Peter Dinklage. | Massimo Cantini Parrini | December 31, 2021 |
| Caravaggio's Shadow | "The Catholic Church secretly investigates Caravaggio as the Pope weighs whether to grant him clemency for killing a rival." | Carlo Poggioli | 2021 |
| Death Comes as the End | Another Agatha Christie murder mystery, this one set in ancient Egypt! | 2021 | |
| Eiffel | "Eiffel's search for inspiration as he comes under pressure to design something spectacular for the 1889 Paris World Fair." | Thierry Delettre | 2021 |
| Gentleman Jack | Season two of the life & loves of 1830s lesbian Anne Lister continues! | Tom Pye | 2021 on HBO |
| Leonardo | Miniseries about Leonardo da Vinci starring Aidan Turner. | Alessandro Lai | 2021 |
| Lost Illusions | An adaptation of Honoré de Balzac's novel 'Les illusions perdues.' Stars Gerard Depardieu. | Pierre-Jean Larroque | 2021 |
| Margrete: Queen of the North | Biopic of Margaret I of Denmark in the 1400s. | Manon Rasmussen | 2021 |
| Paris Police 1900 | "Paris, France, 1899. The corpse of an unknown woman is found in the river Seine. The investigation will push a young ambitious inspector to discover a heavy state secret." | Anaïs Romand | 2021 |
| To Olivia | The story of the tumultuous marriage between actress Patricia Neal and renowned writer Roald Dahl in the 1960s. | Suzie Harman | 2021 |
| Around the World in 80 Days | BBC adaptation of Jules Verne's classic with David Tennant starring as Phileas Fogg. | Kate Carin | January 2, 2022, on PBS |
| All Creatures Great and Small | Season 2 of the series about a 1930s Yorkshire vet. | Ros Little | January 9, 2022, on PBS |
| The King's Daughter | Formerly titled 'The Moon and the Sun' & featuring King Louis XIV with a mermaid. | Lizzy Gardiner | January 21, 2022 |
| The Gilded Age | Series set in 1880s New York City created by Downton Abbey's Julian Fellowes. | Kasia Walicka-Maimone | January 24, 2022, on HBO |
| Death on the Nile | Kenneth Branagh's version of the Agatha Christie mystery. | Paco Delgado | February 11, 2022 |
| Downton Abbey: A New Era | More of the Crawley family and Downton staff in the 1920s. | Anna Robbins | March 18, 2022 |
| Sanditon | We'll get two more seasons of this Austen-ish story. | March 20, 2022, on PBS | |
| The Northman | Set in Iceland at the turn of the 10th century, a Nordic prince sets out on a mission of revenge after his father is murdered. | Linda Muir | April 8, 2022 |
| 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. | December 23, 2022 | |
| 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 |
| Blonde | A fictionalized chronicle of the inner life of Marilyn Monroe. | Jennifer Johnson | 2022 on Netflix |
| Brideshead Revisited | Another remake of the Evelyn Waugh novel, now by the BBC. | 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 |
| Medieval | 14th-century Czech icon and warlord Jan Zizka defeats armies of the Teutonic Order and the Holy Roman Empire. | Katerina Mirová | 2022 |
| Mr. Malcolm's List | A young woman courts a mysterious wealthy suitor in 19th-century England. | 2022 | |
| The Pact | About the relationship between Karen Blixen (author of 'Out of Africa') & poet Thorkild Bjørnvig in the 1940s. | Anne-Dorthe Eskildsen | 2022 |
| Persuasion | A Jane Austen adaption starring Dakota Johnson. | Marianne Agertoft | 2022 on Netflix |
| A Very British Scandal | The notorious divorce of the Duke and Duchess of Argyll during the 1960s. | Ian Fulcher | 2022 on Amazon |
| 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 | 2023 |
| Becoming Elizabeth | Miniseries about the early years of Queen Elizabeth I. | Bartholomew Cariss | Starz |
| Catherine, Called Birdy | Movie about a 14-year-old girl in medieval England, based on a novel by Karen Cushman. | ||
| Chevalier de Saint-Georges | Movie about the son of an African slave who rose to great heights in Marie-Antoinette's court as a violinist and champion fencer. | Suzie Harman | |
| Cleopatra | Gal Gadot as the legendary Egyptian pharaoh. | ||
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 Essex Serpent | A Victorian widow encounters a mysterious local superstition. | Karen Muller Serreau | Apple TV |
| 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. | ||
| 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." | ||
| Kitbag | A Napoleon Bonaparte biopic directed by Ridley Scott. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Marie Antoinette | TV series produced in France & co-written by one of the screenwriters of The Favourite. | ||
| 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." | ||
| Our Flag Means Death | Comedy TV series set in 1717 where a wealthy landowner Stede Bonnet has a midlife crisis and decides to become a pirate. | Christine Wada | HBO Max |
| Persuasion | A big-screen Jane Austen adaption starring Sarah Snook. | ||
| Radical Eye: The Life and Times of Tina Modotti | Biopic of Italian photographer, model, actress, & revolutionary political activist starring Monica Bellucci. | ||
| Roosevelt | A biopic about President Theodore Roosevelt starring Leonardo DiCaprio. | ||
| 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. | 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 |
| The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan | The story of one of the Three Musketeers. | Thierry Delettre | |
| Tom Jones | A new TV adaption of the 1749 Henry Fielding novel. | Hazel Webb Crozier | PBS |
| The Three Musketeers: Milady | Sequel to 'D'Artagnan,' being filmed back-to-back. | Thierry Delettre | |
| The Woman King | The story of a general of the all-female military unit, and her daughter, who together fought the French. | Gersha Phillips |
