We’re always trying to track what historical costume movies and TV shows are coming up. I always feel like we’ve Just Posted one of these, and then I go check and it’s been months. So, yay, we get some new stuff! As always, you can keep an eye on what’s forthcoming on our Upcoming Movies page! Note that all dates are for the U.S.
Spider-Noir (May 27 on Amazon)
Nicolas Cage as a private investigator in 1930s New York. Costumes by Trayce Gigi Field.
Pressure (May 29)
World War II movie set 72 hours before D-Day. Costumes by Liza Bracey.
The Death of Robin Hood (June 19)
Hugh Jackman stars as Robin Hood grappling with his past life of crime. Costumes by Lorna Marie Mugan.
Young Washington (July 3)
A George Washington biopic. Costumes by Nadine Powell.
Little House on the Prairie (July 9 on Netflix)
New TV series based on the Laura Ingalls Wilder books. Costumes by Mitchell Travers.
The Odyssey (July 17)
Director Christopher Nolan’s take on the Greek classic. Costumes by Ellen Mirojnick.
Jimmy (Nov. 6)
Biopic of actor Jimmy Stewart around World War II and It’s a Wonderful Life. Costumes by Emma O’Loughlin.
Hershey (Nov. 26)
Biopic of Milton & Kitty Hershey, who founded the chocolate company in the 19th century. Costumes by Katie Irish.
Madfabulous (no US release date)
Indie film about flamboyant & rebellious 19th-c. Lord Paget. Costumes by Francisco Rodriguez-Weil.
Pride and Prejudice (no US release date; on Netflix)
A new TV miniseries adaption of the Jane Austen story. Costumes by Charlotte Walter.
Savage House (no US release date)
A darkly satirical play on class and power set in 18th-c. England. Costumes by Alex Bovaird.
Virginia Woolf’s Night & Day (no US release date)
Based on the 1910s novel where an astronomer is determined to avoid love & marriage. Costumes by Esther Walz.
A Woman of Substance (no US release date; BritBox)
New miniseries adaption of the story of a maid who rises to run her own business. Costumes by Nadine Clifford-Davern.
Which of these upcoming frock flicks are you most excited about?
Madfabulous and Savage House really jump out for me, and I think I’ll probably like the Jimmy Stewart and George Washington biopics. Little House on the Prairie looks a bit too “Instagramy” for my tastes, and I’m ambivalent about another Pride and Prejudice.
Obviously outside of the period movie cutoff for review but would the in-post-production Queen of Fashion movie rank a summer trailer spot?
While fabulous & I’ll want to watch it, Isabella Blow is definitely out of our period!
Looks like P&P is mashing up Elizabeth and Darcy with Jane Here’s first meeting with Rochester. And riding in shirtsleeves, seriously?
Little House on the Prairie looks sickeningly sweet–yeah, Instagram fake. I live in a prairie state, and that isn’t one.
I watched the first episode of A Woman of Substance. It doesn’t hold a candle to the version with Deborah Kerr, Liam Neeson and Jenny Seagrove.
I’ve been meaning to go and watch that, as all I remember is ALL the parents being a-twitter about it back in my childhood!
It never ceases to fascinate me that Mr James Stewart was technically Brigadier General James Stewart (US Army Air Force/US Air Force).
On a less serious note, I wonder if a gumshoe with Spider-powers counts as a ‘web foot’?
I have no particular experience with Hershey confectionaries, but Ms Alexandra Daddario DOES look a treat in that commercial – sadly condemned to be a love interest yet again when she radiates ‘Disney Villain’ energy.
Also, that YOUNG WASHINGTON looks exactly as friendly towards His Majesty’s Government as any Patriotic feature film released in the two hundred and fiftieth year of the American Revolution (No presentism there, no siree!).
If you want to see her in a Disney Villain role, you might want to check out Alexandra Daddario in Why Women Kill. (Which honestly I recommend more for the other two plotlines than hers – Ginnifer Goodwin and Lucy Liu are both great in it.)
Given the relative B-tier of the Jimmy cast, and that the director has only directed two other films – a cheap-looking action drama, Legacy Peak and a bog standard Western revenge, Birthright Outlaw, I’m not holding my breath that it won’t be a schmaltzy religious drama that finds a way to credit Jimmy Stewart’s success in Hollywood to his religious faith.
I am excited for Madfabulous and Savage House though (especially the latter – give me anything with Richard E. Grant).
Give Pa Ingalls a proper beard……….and Caroline’s airy, lacy brown bonnet was lovely
Can we have a moratorium on P&P remakes? I don’t feel like there is anything really new with any of them.
And I’m really curious as to how much Young Washington is going to tackle the whole he owned and was okay with owning slaves thing. And not always that good at his job?
Unfortunately, with Jane Austen’s 250th bday last year, it’s like everyone suddenly re-remembered she exists. eye roll
With regard to your questions:-
Only when actresses (and presumably other members of cast & crew) stop getting a thrill out of getting to put their own spin on characters they grew up with
Presumably by breathing a deep sigh of relief that they don’t have to worry about Thomas Jefferson-tier hypocrisy and letting the warmth of that breeze waft them over the middle passage (With occasional shouts of “Father of his country!” and “That horrible, horrible British Empire, don’t we all just hate those guys?” to further smooth the way).
Also, credit where it’s due, Mr Washington had some remarkably good days to compensate for the bad ones.
You missed the new Sense and Sensibility coming this October 16th in theaters in the US. 😊
The official trailer isn’t available online yet.
I’ll probably see Night & Day at some point; my dad will be excited for that one, he’s a big Virginia Woolf fan. Savage House sounds like my kind of thing as well (maybe in a similar vein to The Favourite?).
The Odyssey is another one I’ll probably see, though it seems to have been getting a lot of advance online criticism.
Interesting that Spider-Noir is live-action – it’s a spinoff from the animated Spider-Verse movies (Into The Spider-Verse, Across The Spider-Verse), so I assumed it would be animated as well. I might watch that one when I have access to Amazon Prime.
Okay, I’m like STUPID excited for Pressure. Damian Lewis and Andrew Scott reunited in WWII? Sign me all the way up, I’ve watched Band of Brothers in its entirety at least ten times and the D Day episode probably 30 or 40.
The preview trailer for East of Eden just dropped, as well.
A day late for this post, but yes.
Thanks for alerting me to Madfabulous – I’ve been to Plas Newydd many times and marvelled at the photographs of Henry Paget, so I’m definitely excited to see this.
Richard E. Grant is a name which makes me looking for the movie. No idea if it will be in German cinemas. I will give the movie about Vivaldi (Primavera) a try, because it’s Vernice and I was there last year and hope to remember one or two places. Next week it will start here in Germany in my favorite cinemas. The costumes are typical Italian stuff from today. But I have no great expectations.
The spousal unit and I are currently watching Spider Noir, and I’ll give it at least one thumbs up for fabulosity for at least two characters’ costumes, especially in the color version. Thanks to Frock Flicks, he and I have found a good common ground on historical shows – the Michael Shannon Garfield series was sooooo good.