Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are working on ‘a bunch’ of new Netflix projects including a film and two other ‘unscripted’ projects, a company executive has said.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex signed a five-year agreement with the California-based streaming giant in 2020 worth an estimated $100million (£80million).
But there has been uncertainty over whether the deal will be renewed next year, especially after their £15million Spotify contract ended early in June last year.
Now, Netflix’s chief content officer Bela Bajaria has revealed that Harry and Meghan ‘actually have a bunch in development’ under their Archewell Productions arm.
According to The Times, Ms Bajaria told a Netflix promotional event in Hollywood that the Sussex were working on ‘a couple of unscripted things’ – thought to be documentaries – plus a film and a series which are all in ‘very early development’.
The couple’s six-part bombshell documentary ‘Harry and Meghan’ was their first Netflix release in December 2022, which included a series of swipes at the royals.
Three weeks later the Sussexes released their second Netflix production, ‘Live to Lead’, which was about global leaders who have fought for social justice.
Then in August last year, Harry released his latest series Heart of Invictus, which featured athletes preparing for the 2022 edition of the games and saw him open up about his mental health struggles after returning from military duty in Afghanistan.
Also last August, Netflix paid £3million for the film rights to Carley Fortune’s romantic novel Meet Me At The Lake which Harry and Meghan will produce.
But last May, Netflix dropped Meghan’s planned animated series Pearl as part of a wave of cutbacks prompted by the streaming service’s drop in subscribers.Â
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle at a premiere for the One Love film in Jamaica on January 23