Netflix is gearing up for one more historic epic with a confirmed artistic workforce.
Over time, Netflix has backed a number of notable historic dramas, from the award-winning saga The Crown to the newer addition Home of Guinness. The streaming platform additionally gives picks from different producers, corresponding to Black Sails and Outlander. Nonetheless, Netflix will once more be producing its personal unique historic epic with the workforce that created The Empress.
Per Deadline, Robert and Katharina Eyssen, the creators and showrunners of Netflix’s royal drama, are actually again on board with Netflix and producer Sommerhaus to helm Witches, a darkish historic epic collection chronicling the European witch hunts within the seventeenth century, particularly in Germany. Witches is presently in improvement, and Deadline hears that it will likely be a “main,” long-running collection.
Per Witches’ logline, it is going to deal with three sisters, “[revolving] round a household torn aside by suspicion, accusation and betrayal, and inform a narrative of defending family members within the grip of concern and fanaticism — and of unyielding resistance within the shadow of considered one of Europe’s darkest chapters.” Whereas there isn’t a phrase but on Witches’ forged or launch date, Netflix just lately confirmed that The Empress’ closing season will launch in late 2026.
Robert and Katharina Eyssen stated in an announcement to Deadline about their new historic TV present: “As with The Empress, we’re making a household story centered on robust, complicated, and defiant feminine characters. It’s a radically emotional story that explores marginalization and persecution — a collection that provokes thought, sweeps you alongside, and will get below your pores and skin.“
The German drama collection The Empress depicts the lives of Empress Elisabeth and her husband, Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria, within the nineteenth century; it premiered in 2022 and received the award for Drama Sequence on the Worldwide Emmy Awards in 2023. The Eyssens additionally beforehand labored with Netflix and Sommerhaus on the 2019 miniseries Vacation Secrets and techniques.
An curiosity in darkish historic collection remains to be very a lot alive, and Witches seemingly goals to unearth this era in additional element than ever earlier than. With these acclaimed and proficient showrunners engaged on it, Witches may turn out to be among the best Netflix originals and one of many platform’s greatest historic dramas within the subsequent few years. Within the meantime, these anticipating it may possibly take a look at The Empress on Netflix.
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Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph