“The Crown is a love letter to her and I have nothing to add for now, only silence and respect. I expect we will stop filming out of respect as well,” he told news site Deadline. (This was later confirmed by a source at Netflix.) Here’s a 2016 comment from one of the drama’s producers, Stephen Daldry, about the show having plans in the event of the monarch’s death. “None of us know when that time will come, but it would be right and proper to show respect to the Queen,” Daldry said. “It would be a simple tribute and a sign of respect. He’s a global figure and that’s what we have to do.” The fifth season of The Crown will depict the early to mid-1990s and will feature an all-new cast including Imelda Staunton as the Queen, Dominic West as Prince Charles and Elizabeth Debicki as Diana, Princess of Wales. It marks the second cast change for the show, whose first two series saw Claire Foy play a younger version of the monarch, before being recast as Olivia Colman for seasons three and four. The fifth series was billed as the last of this critically acclaimed series, despite the fact that Morgan had originally planned it as a six-series show. At the time, he said of the decision to give time to the program – which has been watched by more than 73 million households worldwide: “At first, I had envisioned The Crown running for six seasons, but now that we’ve started working on The Crown stories for season five it has become clear to me that this is the perfect time and place to stop. I am grateful to Netflix and Sony for supporting me in this decision.”
