Netflix Is Making a Rom Com That's Basically 'A Christmas Prince' Meets the Royal Wedding
With the royal wedding over and done with, we’ll have to get our fairytale romance fix somewhere else. Luckily Netflix is here to fill the gap, announcing on Monday a new royal wedding–y movie, starring Vanessa Hudgens and Sam Palladio. The movie is called The Princess Switch, according to @seewhatsnext, Netflix’s news-bearing Twitter account, and it’s “a rom com about a duchess & a commoner who swap places after discovering they look exactly alike! But things get complicated when they each fall in love with a man who doesn’t know their true identity.” (The duchess obsession lives on.)
Although Netflix didn’t give out any more information, Hudgens did post a still from the film to her Instagram account. In it she’s wearing a wedding gown and a tiara, and Palladio is rocking a European-looking uniform à la Princes William and Harry at their respective weddings. So…does this mean Hudgens is playing the dual role of duchess and commoner? And is Palladio the royal she marries? It sure seems that way.
“Did someone say a royal wedding??????? that’s a wrap on THE CHRISTMAS SWITCH ? coming to you this holiday season on @netflix ❤️❤️ so excited for you guys to see this one ??,” Hudgens captioned her Instagram post. So either she got the film’s name wrong, or the working title was The Christmas Switch at one point. Either way, it appears to be Christmas-themed (like Netflix’s surprising breakout hit A Christmas Prince). Palladio re-‘grammed the photo as well, appearing to reveal that filming took only a month.
In other Christmas-themed royal rom com news, BuzzFeed reported that A Christmas Prince is getting a sequel called A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding, in which the main characters prepare for their nuptials by watching Meghan Markle and Prince Harry tie the knot. So meta.
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