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Post by Dame Bouncy Castle on Jul 13, 2018 17:27:48 GMT
A feature film based on the historical period drama had long been rumored. Now it's official, with creator Julian Fellowes returning to write the two-hour film.
Production is set to begin later this summer with the original cast. “When the television series drew to a close it was our dream to bring the millions of global fans a movie and now, after getting many stars aligned, we are shortly to go into production,” executive producer Gareth Neame said in a statement. “Julian’s script charms, thrills and entertains and in Brian Percival’s hands we aim to deliver everything that one would hope for as Downton comes to the big screen.”
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Post by geometryman on Jul 13, 2018 18:17:45 GMT
Just been reading about this. Great news for me and no doubt many millions around the world, but not for everyone (my brother e.g., who treated the series with disdain). They'll be doing well to get all the main cast together again after 3 or 4 years.
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Post by Malyndi on Jul 13, 2018 20:28:46 GMT
Will be interesting to see how it's made into a single film - even one lasting 2 hours - when so many different stories were packed into the series!
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Post by goodhelenstar on Jul 14, 2018 6:55:42 GMT
I wonder what Maggie Smith thinks about that! She has not exactly been overflowing with praise about the TV series, though it has no doubt provided her with a nice fat pension.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2018 6:33:51 GMT
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Post by profbooboo on Jul 16, 2018 13:39:08 GMT
There was a mention a while ago that they might do the show without Maggie Smith if she didnt want to do it and as mentioned the age of the countess becomes problematic, and that a storyline for the film might be her death which would bring all characters back. Just rumour though.
I always liked the downstairs characters better anyway, I found them way more interesting, Thomas being my favourite.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2018 15:32:01 GMT
How old is the Duchess meant to be, any ideas? People often looked much older than they really were at that time.
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Post by profbooboo on Jul 16, 2018 19:24:53 GMT
She was mid 80s when the show ended, which I think was 1926. So it's a plausible storyline as I'd assume the film wouldn't still be in 1926 and may have moved into the early 30s or maybe the start of the 2nd world war.
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Post by geometryman on Jul 16, 2018 21:54:42 GMT
The Sun has some movie cast confirmations and otherwise today.
Will be returning: Maggie Smith, Michelle Dockery, Laura Carmichael, Hugh Bonneville, Joanne Froggat.
Will not be returning: Lily James.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2018 22:09:31 GMT
No great loss, the important ones are there.
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Post by Netz on Jul 1, 2019 17:57:11 GMT
If anyone's interested, Series 1 Episode 1 is being shown on ITV3 on Monday 8th July at 5.30pm. I've been able to series-link my recording, so presumably they're showing the whole 1st series. Hopefully, they might show all the others afterwards as well in the same time slot. 🙂
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Post by Netz on Jul 2, 2019 18:01:24 GMT
My series link has picked it up for Tues 9th as well (this time at 6pm) so it looks like the first series might be shown in the space of under two weeks instead of nearly two months.
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Post by beverley61 on Jul 3, 2019 11:34:10 GMT
My series link has picked it up for Tues 9th as well (this time at 6pm) so it looks like the first series might be shown in the space of under two weeks instead of nearly two months. I understand that they had intended to take the series up to 1939 but as charachters developed their stories took over and the time span was shortened, however their has been talk about a prequel featuring th Dowager Duchess. I know the film is about a royal visit - not a spoiler, it has been trailed everywhere - and it did occur to me that this was genuinely a bit missing from the series. The family would have been invited to Royal occasions at least some ball every year if not several events. They would have known the Royals - to a degree - but perhaps much more personally. The Earl would have been in the House of Lords (would he??). The girls would have known the high flying aristos of the time and had a lot of weekend invites etc. I think it started out a little like this and then took a turn and became more of a rich people in the countrside family drama soap. It was none the worse for it but it could have been so different. |
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Post by sleepyp on Jul 3, 2019 14:34:21 GMT
I saw the trailer in the cinema this week, looks as though it's still the 20s, but that Carson has retired and is brought back to sort out a crisis  |
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Post by profbooboo on Jul 3, 2019 19:42:16 GMT
I read that due to the royal visit they ask Carson to come back to Downton as a sort of advisor to the downstairs lot...and a way of bringing back Jim Carter as Carson as at the end of the series he s retired so they'd be no reason for him to be at the house. Barrow (😍) is a bit put out as he's now in charge and bringing Carson back probably feels like he's not trusted to do a good job or they don't have the confidence in him. Apparently he has his own little adventure a sort of film within a film. There's also new character posters with two characters to each, when you view the downstairs and upstairs cast in a row they create one long picture!  These duo character posters show Miss Baxter but the group poster and promo pic doesn't have her in it.  |
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Anymore to come?
