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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Critic | A 1930s story of ambition, blackmail, & desire, based on the novel by Anthony Quinn. | Claire Finlay-Thompson | September 13, 2024 |
| Lee | Kate Winslet stars as war correspondent & photographer Lee Miller during World War II. | Michael O'Connor | September 27, 2024 |
| White Bird | Coming-of-age story about a Jewish girl living in Nazi-occupied France. | Jenny Beavan | October 4, 2024 |
| Blitz | The stories of Londoners during the WWII bombing. | Jacqueline Durran | November 1, 2024 |
| Gladiator 2 | Follows Lucius, the son of Maximus's love Lucilla, after Maximus's death. | David Crossman & Janty Yates | November 22, 2024 |
| The Piano Lesson | Based on the August Wilson play set in the 1930s, a family decides what to do with an heirloom. | Francine Jamison-Tanchuck | November 22, 2024, on Netflix |
| The Return | Odysseus returns after the Trojan war. Based on Homer's epic poems. | December 6, 2024 | |
| Six Triple Eight | The Women's Army Corps' all-Black battalion attempts to get backlogged mail to soldiers & families during WWII. | Karyn Wagner | December 20, 2024, on Netflix |
| Nosferatu | "A gothic tale of obsession between a young woman in 19th century Germany and the Transylvanian vampire who stalks her." | Linda Muir | December 25, 2024 |
| Seize Them! | A comedy set in Dark Age Britain. | Caroline Harris | 2024 |
| The War Rooms | Series follows the women who worked in Winston Churchill's secret bunker in central London. | 2024 | |
| Timestalker | "The hapless Agnes is reincarnated every time she makes the same mistake: falling in love with the wrong man." | Rebecca Gore | 2024 |
| Verona's Romeo & Juliet | "Based on the real story that inspired Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, follows the greatest love story of all time, set as an original pop musical." | Luciano Capozzi | February 14, 2025 |
| Downton Abbey 3 | The movies spawned by the TV series continue! | Anna Robbins | September 12, 2025 |
| Miss Austen | Miniseries looks at why Cassandra Austen burned her sister Jane's letters after her death. | 2025 on PBS | |
| Outrageous | Based on the lives of the six Mitford sisters in the 1930s. | Claire Collins | 2025 on BritBox |
| Sherlock & Daughter | Yet another twist on the Sherlock Holmes story, starring David Thewlis as the detective. | 2025 on The CW | |
| Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light | Continuation Thomas Cromwell's life during his last four years, based on the Hilary Mantel trilogy. | Joanna Eatwell | 2025 on PBS |
| Amadeus | A TV reimagining of the Mozart / Salieri story from Peter Shaffer’s play. | Lisa Duncan | |
| Carême | TV series about chef Antoine Carême, who cooked for Napoleon, Tsar Alexander, & the Rothschilds | Pierre-Jean Larroque | Apple TV |
| Chief of War | From the indigenous point of view, this TV series tells the story of the unification and colonization of Hawaii in the 18th century. | Caroline Eselin | Apple TV |
| The Count of Monte Cristo | A new French/Italian TV version of the Dumas classic. | Ursula Patzak | |
| Death by Lightning | Series about the assassination of 20th U.S. President James Garfield. | Netflix | |
| Le Déluge | Follows the last days of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette before they were executed. | Massimo Cantini Parrini | |
| Fever | Biopic of singer Peggy Lee, starting with her first #1 single "Somebody Else Is Taking My Place" in 1942. | Sandy Powell | |
| Fools | During Mary Tudor's reign, a cardinal vies for power, but the jester Jane Foole stands in his way. | ||
| The Forsyte Saga | Series based on John Galsworthy's novels & set in 1880s London. | Nic Ede | PBS |
| Iron Ribbon | Story of Stanislawa Uminska, a Polish actress on trial in the 1920s for a sensational criminal case. | Dinah Collin | |
| King and Conqueror | William of Normandy & Harold of Wessex meet at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. | Margrét Einarsdóttir | |
| The Leopard | TV series based on the novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa about Italian unification in the 1860s. | Carlo Poggioli & Edoardo Russo | Netflix |
| Longbourn | The lives of the servants of Longbourn House, home to the Bennet family of Jane Austen's 'Pride & Prejudice.' | ||
| Madfabulous | Indie film about flamboyant & rebellious 19th-c. Lord Paget. | Francisco Rodriguez-Weil | |
| Monstrous Beauty | A woman born with a rare condition becomes a playwright at King Charles II's court. | Annie Symons | |
| One Hundred Years of Solitude | A TV adaptation of Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez's novel that traces seven generations of a Columbian family. | Catherine RodrÃguez | Netflix |
| Outlander: Blood of My Blood | Prequel series focusing on Jamie Fraser's parents. | Trisha Biggar | Starz |
| Seacole | The story of Mary Seacole, a Jamaican nurse who sought to work with Florence Nightingale during the Crimean War. | Luminita Lungu | |
| Van Gogh | Biopic of the artist Vincent Van Gogh. | Michael O'Connor | |
| Winter Palace | Series about a Swiss luxury hotel in 1899. | Valérie Adda | Netflix |
| Young Sherlock | TV series about a 19-year-old Sherlock Holmes solving mysteries at Oxford. | Amazon |
