{"id":202974,"date":"2025-06-21T16:41:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T16:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/202974\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T16:41:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T16:41:10","slug":"king-charles-and-idris-elba-announce-netflix-documentary-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/202974\/","title":{"rendered":"King Charles and Idris Elba Announce Netflix Documentary Project"},"content":{"rendered":"

King Charles III<\/strong> has apparently forgiven Netflix for The Crown<\/a>\u2014or at least made his peace with it. The royal depicted by Dominic West<\/strong><\/a> in the soapy fictionalization of his oft-painful<\/a> family history has made his own deal with the streaming platform. And it\u2019s one that\u2019ll send fans of David Simon\u2019s iconic HBO series, The Wire<\/a>, clutching their skulls with the multiversal implications of it all.<\/p>\n

King Charles is collaborating with actor Idris Elba<\/strong><\/a> for an as-yet-unnamed documentary about The King\u2019s Trust, a charity Charles founded in 1976. Then known as The Prince\u2019s Trust, the organization was founded by Charles using his Navy severance pay of \u00a37,400 to establish grants and initiatives for economically and socially vulnerable populations.<\/p>\n

Decades later, a teenage Elba was a recipient<\/a> of one of those grants. In 2024, the actor said, \u201cMany of us working in the arts today, myself included, only made it because of programs like this when we were young,\u201d crediting the boost it provided with his success to this day.<\/p>\n

King Charles III (right) meets Gideon Buabeng at an event for The King’s Trust to discuss youth opportunity, at St James’s Palace on July 12, 2024 in London, England.<\/p>\n

WPA Pool\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

The actor\u2019s The Elba Hope Foundation announced a joint effort with The King\u2019s Trust last fall, an effort to assist with job training opportunities for young people in the English city of Manchester. The Netflix doc appears to be an expansion of the relationship, as well as a celebration of the organization\u2019s upcoming 50th anniversary.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe King\u2019s Trust gave me an opportunity that changed my life,\u201d Elba said in a statement announcing the film. \u201cAt a time when I didn\u2019t have the resources to pursue my ambitions, they offered real, practical support\u2014including financial help\u2014that helped me take those first steps to advance my career.\u201d<\/p>\n

The movie, from Elba\u2019s production company with Diene Petterle<\/strong>, 22 Summers, will show Elba with Charles as the royal explains the Trust\u2019s work over the last 50 years, including how it\u2019s helped over a million young folks around the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe King is pleased for The Trust to have this wonderful opportunity to showcase their work to a global audience,\u201d a Buckingham Palace aide said via statement.<\/p>\n

Clare Bradbury<\/strong> is set to direct the documentary, which begins filming next week. And when it does, not only will Charles join estranged son<\/a> Prince Harry<\/strong> and daughter-in-law Meghan Markle<\/strong> on Netflix\u2019s roster of stars, but he\u2019ll also step more firmly into the Wireaverse, nerds like this correspondent might note.<\/p>\n

As acknowledged previously, Netflix cast Dominic West as a fictional Charles a few years ago\u2014and West, as you might remember, made his mark on American culture as The Wire\u2019s Detective Jimmy McNulty. And who was McNulty\u2019s greatest nemesis for the show\u2019s first season, if not longer? One Stringer Bell\u2014otherwise known as Idris Elba in his career-making role.<\/p>\n

So if you squint just hard enough when the documentary is released in August of 2026, perhaps you\u2019ll see the Wire reunion so many of us might foolishly, hopelessly wish for. And even if you can\u2019t, well, you\u2019ll still have the king of England and Idris Elba.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"King Charles III has apparently forgiven Netflix for The Crown\u2014or at least made his peace with it. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7730,7731,8226,498,39195,1760,518,3943,451,7710,519,448,6880],"class_list":{"0":"post-202974","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-royal-family","9":"tag-charles","10":"tag-charles-iii","11":"tag-documentary","12":"tag-hollywood","13":"tag-idris-elba","14":"tag-king-charles","15":"tag-king-charles-iii","16":"tag-movies","17":"tag-netflix","18":"tag-royal-families","19":"tag-royal-family","20":"tag-royals","21":"tag-the-crown"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114722352888907041","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}