Prince George is going to star in his own TV series... kind of.
Gary Janetti, the guy who wrote and produced Family Guy, runs an Instagram account of Prince George memes – and it’s now getting an animated show.
The
comedy, called The Prince, will be written and produced by Janetti for
HBO Max, a US streaming service.
It’s said that the producer will voice the gloriously self-assured and snobby Prince George in the show, with Orlando Bloom as
Prince Harry, Condola Rashad as his nemesis Meghan Markle, Lucy Punch as
Kate Middleton, as well as Tom Hollander as Prince Philip and Prince Charles, according to Deadline. View this post on InstagramA post shared by Gary Janetti (@garyjanetti) on Jan 21, 2020 at 11:36am PSTThe series is described by HBO Max itself as a “biting, satirical look at the life of Prince George of Cambridge, the youngest heir to the
British throne, as he navigates the trials and tribulations of being a royal child.”
In each episode, six-year-old George will show what life is like as a young prince – from navigating the 775 rooms of Buckingham Palace, to primary school away from the royal.
Janetti said he’s “thrilled” to be working at HBO Max for the series, “bringing them yet a series about a family ruthlessly fighting for the throne.”
The producer first started posting the memes of George in September 2017, on his first day of school. “He was just so expressive and really cracked me up,” Janetti told Vanity Fair after the post went viral. “I posted one with a caption, without giving it much thought. I did a few more and slowly developed a character for him.
“Then, when
Meghan Markle got engaged to Harry and she was everywhere in the news, I had formed enough of a character for George that I knew, ‘Oh, he is not going to like this.’ He is not going to like somebody else getting all the attention.”
In the past two and half years, Janetti’s account has gained nearly one million followers, where he posts photos of George reacting cattily to royal news, bitching about his mum and sister, cosying up to his Gan-Gan (the Queen), fan-boying over male Olympic skaters, and eagerly anticipating the day he becomes king. View this post on InstagramA post shared by Gary Janetti (@garyjanetti) on Jan 20, 2020 at 9:56am PST View this post on InstagramA post shared by Gary Janetti (@garyjanetti) on Jan 18, 2020 at 12:09pm PST View this post on InstagramA post shared by Gary Janetti (@garyjanetti) on Jan 6, 2020 at 11:16am PST View this post on InstagramA post shared by Gary Janetti (@garyjanetti) on Nov 24, 2019 at 11:20am PSTRelated... Prince George 'Grins' Alongside
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