The Duke and Duchess of Sussex announced the first docu-series project they will be doing for Netflix.
A new series is getting produced by Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s Archewell productions.
The new series is about The Invictus Games. It is a tournament for wounded veterans founded in 2014 by Prince Harry. It is an international event where sick military service members, whether serving or veterans, participate in sporting events.
The name of this docu-series for now is Heart of Invictus. It will show the behind-the-scenes of the Invictus Games.
This docu-series will follow different excellent competitors from around the world; all of them will be service members that suffered life-altering illnesses or injuries.
On Tuesday, the Invictus foundation announced that the game would take place in 2023.
Orlando Von Einsiedel will direct Heart of Invictus. Joanna Natasegra, who got an Oscar for The White Helmet documentary, will produce this series.
The Duke of Sussex, Prince Hary, will executive produce and appear on camera in this project.
Prince Harry stated:
“From the first Invictus Games in 2014, we knew that each competitor would contribute in their exceptional way to a mosaic of resilience, determination, and resolve.”
Furthermore, he said:
“This series will give communities worldwide a window into the moving and uplifting stories of these competitors on their path to the Netherlands next year.”
When the Duke and Duchess of Sussex left their royal duties and moved to the US, they started their nonprofit foundation, Archewell.
They made Archewell Audio and Archwell Productions and signed contracts with Netflix and Spotify to create content for them.
They have launched a podcast as a project of Archwell Audio for Spotify. However, Heart of Invictus is the first project that Archwell Productions announced.
Ted Sarandos, the Co-CEO and Content Officer of Netflix, said that Archwell production’s aim is to make an ambitious slate that will show the values and causes close to them.
Sarandos further said:
When I met them, I could see that the Invictus Games had a special place in their heart, and I was more than happy that the first series would get shown on Netflix in a way that had not gotten seen by anyone in the world before.
Furthermore, the funding from this project will go to Invictus Games Foundation, and the organization will work as the executive producer.
The fifth annual Invictus Games will be held in The Hague, Netherlands, in 2020. However, because of the pandemic, it got postponed to 2023 and again to 2023.
Now the game is set to get held in 2023 in spring, where more than 500 competitors from 20 nations will compete in different sports.
According to some reports, the revenue they get from their production company will help them finance their life now that they have moved from their royal duties and live in California.
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