Bridgerton Queen Charlotte Prequel Wraps Filming on Season 1

Director Tom Verica announced that filming has wrapped on the Bridgerton prequel series, which will focus on Golda Rosheuvel’s Queen Charlotte.

Filming has officially wrapped on the Bridgerton prequel series about Queen Charlotte. Bridgerton, which originally premiered on Netflix in December 2020, is based on the Regency romance novel series of the same name by Julia Quinn. It follows the romantic travails of various siblings from the vast Bridgerton family, including eldest daughter Daphne (Phoebe Dynevor) in season 1 and eldest son Anthony (Jonathan Bailey) in season 2. The show features a vast ensemble, but one of the major characters is Queen Charlotte (Golda Rosheuvel). Charlotte has her hands in the affairs of many of her high-ranking subjects and seeks to expose the truth behind the gossip columnist Lady Whistledown (the voice of Julie Andrews).Although it doesn’t yet have an official title, the Queen Charlotte limited series will feature Rosheuvel reprising her role. Other recognizable Bridgerton cast members will include Adjoa Andoh as Lady Danbury, Ruth Gemmell as Violet, Dowager Viscountess Bridgerton (the mother of the Bridgerton siblings), and James Fleet as King George III. The rest of the ensemble will be filled out by India Amarteifio, Michelle Fairley, Corey Mylchreest, Arsema Thoma, and Connie Jenkins-Greig as young Violet.

This week, the Queen Charlotte prequel series has officially wrapped filming. The news was announced on Twitter by the show’s director Tom Verica, who previously worked with the show’s executive producer Shonda Rhimes on her ABC series How to Get Away with Murder. In his tweet, he announced “that’s a wrap” before praising the cast and crew and leaving off with an intriguing “just wait.” Check out his post below:

Now that the filming has officially wrapped, the full series can enter post-production. It is likely that every episode is already in a different stage of post-production, as Netflix series shoot entire seasons at once. However, now that picture has been wrapped, they have all the raw material they need to put the entire thing together before release. Usually, this stage of a Netflix series can last between several months and a year, although the process for Queen Charlotte may be on the shorter end, considering there likely isn’t a huge need for VFX shots to be added in post, unlike other Netflix series like the sci-fi tinged Stranger Things.

So far, it seems that Bridgerton season 3 is still filming, so Queen Charlotte beats it to the punch. Whether that means it will air first remains to be seen. It is likely that the new season of the original series will arrive before the end of 2023, so the prequel may precede it by a couple of months, which is a strategy that Netflix has used before with the animated film The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf, which came out in August 2021 before The Witcher season 2 dropped in December 2021.