Netflix deal to end

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https://www.thesun.co.uk/royals/35969847/prince-harry-meghan-netflix-deal-axed/

Netflix deal is over

• Both decided a statement won’t be released “Publicly, there will not be a statement and of course, if things change dramatically, they’d be open to a one-off project down the line.”
• Talk about Paramount plus

It’s been pretty obvious for a while. No talk about the Archewell productions arm, the film they were making etc.

How long can As ever last when they won’t have NF to back it up with WLM infomercials.

Would the programme about Diana have to be offered to Netflix under the first look contract? Would they really want to pour good money after bad , maybe it would be fairly cheap to make , just collating a load of already seen video clips with H doing the voice over.

Yes if its car-crash TV. Bit like Spare - most people bought it to laugh at him.

This pair have made so much toxic noise over the last 5 years - its all 'eyeballs' - no one needs to 'like' him.

I would imagine Harry would focus on the Camilla and Charles affair just to twist the knife into Pa, unless of course Pa digs deep into his pockets of course…..

Attitudes have changed around KC3 and Camilla, especially post KC3's cancer. A lot of people are in the "it happened long ago, why rehash?" zone.

I just cannot see Diana gaining the level of sympathy she received back in the 90s before her own affairs were common knowledge. Any discussion of Diana will dredge up James Hewitt, Will Carling, Oliver Hoare and more, further sullying her reputation as Netflix, more than likely, will want as much controversy as possible, to drive viewership numbers.

Possibly more important to H, given the collapse of Netflix, there is the issue of inheritance. Irritate King pa too much then inheritance can go down to one pound...you can't challenge that in court! H's sainted mother, who he called an adulterer in court, has already provided an inheritance and even dining off her death would be less lucrative than having access to King Pa's private money

I think it was @My2cents1975 - or one of the clued up US posters anyway who said that the US is getting bored on H going on abut Diana. I do think there really isn't much footage of Diana that hasn't been seen and if H is simply going to narrate rather than be interviewed there isn't an awful lot of scope for anything new to be said. I think any documentary would have to offer something new and potentially something controversial not to be seen as another Diana programme & to be worth decent money. I'm not sure he'll do it unless in extremis . He might threaten to of course.

The lady wasn’t veiled. She was wearing an Abaya and a headscarf and even within the Muslim world its far different to being veiled - being veiled is covering your face.

A person would have to be pretty shortsighted to even try and shake hands with a veiled woman but it’s 6 of one and half a dozen of the other when it comes to shaking the hand of a woman dressed as the woman in the article was dressed. Some will accept a proffered hand from a man and some won’t. And let’s not forget a man is just as likely nowadays not to want to shake hands either.

Where I live, and have done for almost 50 years, people ask each other ‘do you shake hands’ so much importance is placed on formalised greetings, even to the extent that how you open the greeting verbally is very important. And sometimes you do see a little bit of confusion going on but it’s generally very easy to get the feel of the situation as you approach a person. And yes, the hand on the heart and small bow of the head is a very nice way around things. In fact it’s my favourite way of being greeted because it’s just so warm (and nothing to with any religious preference on my side).

Im trying to think if that visit would have been an official Palace visit because surely it would have been in his brief - do’s and dont’s on the day. Just what was he thinking 🙈

I would not underestimate anyone who thought they could make a buck out of Harry or manipulate him to think he was doing the right thing. I suspect they would be pushing at an open door

That's very fair comment, @BasiliskStare, and yes I suppose some might be prepared to endure Harry's incompetence if there was ££££ in it, but by god they'd need the patience of Job - especially if, as so often, any anecdotes he shared were later shown to be a pack of lies

As for the mwah-mwah with the muslim lady, I'd have thought her reaction would have made it quite clear to anyone with sense that she's one who doesn't welcome this, but apart from that why is Meghan hauling him around with BOTH hands??
Whatever he claims about the dreaded grey suits at least they never resorted to that, and frankly it makes him look like a toddler being forced into something

I dont think enduring PH's incompetence will be a problem - he's lazy, no attention to detail and would be delighted to take the easy way out and be hands off (bit like Spare) .... if it was MM on the other hand - that would be a different matter - as she is from the seagull school of management.

why is Meghan hauling him around with BOTH hands??

I would like to think it's because she realised that what he was doing was inappropriate, however, given her habit of clinging to him like a bloody limpet, I fear not and it's just her normal MO .

I think people underestimate the interest in Diana now, unless it’s scandal.
No one wants a documentary now that portrays her as a saint, we all know she wasn’t.

Or the guy who didn't even have a sofa in his Christopher Wren apartment at KP won't spring for a do-over.

I think very few people would be interested in just the same old stuff re-hashed…I can practically recite the various film clips they’d use…and few would be happy with a Harry hagiography, which is surely what he’d want to make.

As pps have said it could hardly avoid embarrassing references to KC and Camilla, and even if William were not mentioned, the whole thing would quite reasonably infuriate him too.

I hope Harry isn’t so dim that he can’t see what a trap this would be for him.

Unless Harry has got unseen footage that could be shown, I agree, it would just be all the same clips that we've all seen many times before.
Would footage be shown that included William , it would all be a bit awkward, knowing that they don't speak, would Harry be able to speak warmly about him or would his tone be cold .

Bearing in mind that Harry's said he wants to save his inheritance from Diana for the children and he doesn't appear to be good for earning much now, what's to say he can afford a do-over?

I agree with PPs that the kitchen in particular looks a wreck and certainly "ripping it all out and starting again" is the American way in very wealthy circles, but Harry's not American and if it's true that he's pining for what he's lost he may not even be all that interested in the place any more

She is very thin-skinned. IMHO.
But has a brass neck to compensate.

I've read the first 9 pages at the start of this thread, and skim-read the rest. With one exception the usual superfans seem to be noticeably absent.

Bearing in mind that Harry's said he wants to save his inheritance from Diana for the children

Which is not necessarily doing them any favours. I don't think it's good for young people to grow up knowing they'll never have to work for their living (see: Brooklyn Beckham). Have a fund for their education, but after that they should make their own way.

I think we can expect a new script to make its appearance over the next few days.

But will there be mobey to.promote it?

Just reading that Meet Me At The Lake is a non starter . 2 years and they still don’t have a director or cast.

I like the house too but the office is hilarious as it’s the tidiest and most impractical home office I’ve ever seen. If you are trying to go paperless why would you not have a proper computer with two screens so you can read documents on one and type on the other? If old fashioned, where is all the paper, filing cabinets and crap that comes with having a business (or several)? They must have a room of chaos somewhere in that mansion…

They took on the option during the Hollywood writers' strike which was apparently the initial reason for delaying production but that's been over for a long time now.

Apart from the book being appalling (I skipped lots waded through it so no-one here has to suffer 😉) their option may well be running out, AI tells me an option is usually around eighteen months and this one has been approx 2 years.

I doubt they have the money to take a punt on what on previous form might very well turn out to be a turkey.

It will be interesting to see what happens next, watch this space as they say.

Or, first things first, a script.

I've never read meet me at the Lake so I don't know how well it would translate to film - but sounds like irrelevant now. I would say many many years ago ( early 90s ) I went to see Donna Tartt at a book reading of The Secret History. She was fabulous & I like the book. She said Alan J Pakula had optioned it - that didn't happen. There was a second go I think by Miramax - that didn't see the light of day. & one more by her friend Brett Easton Ellis - I love him in a way I do not think I should but of his time ) which got no funding. So if Meet me at the Lake isn't all that with mediocre/ poor producers - I'm not surprised if it sinks without trace if an adaptation of The Secret History can't get on film or (latterly) onto Netflix. But I accept that is very largely in part to me being of the age when TSH came out and liking it a great deal. I liked American Psycho (book) and thought the film was a bit so so . Well there is a tiny wander through my earlier years 😂

I think producing ( properly rather than being an "executive producer") might actually be harder work than M&H had thought. But - be clear - not my world so I don't really know.