After six seasons in the TV circuit. Now Downton Abbey, “” in a new round. As a movie, the popular series from the U.K. returns. With familiar faces and stories.
Many well-known faces of the TV series will also be in the new movie
“What is a weekend?”, Violet Crawley (Maggie Smith) asked at the beginning of the first season. This Expression of the noble Lady coined the shown life style and the history of the British cult series from the beginning. As for the nobility of each day consists of receptions, celebrations and pompous banquets – at least on TV.
In “Downton Abbey” revolves around the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their staff. The series is set at the beginning of the 20th century. Century – the heyday of the Edwardian era, the First world war to the wild 1920s.
Fate, Drama, recovery, and love stories through the 52 episodes of the six seasons. And this will certainly also be the focus of the currently-announced movie. Where exactly the Film is linked, is not yet known. According to reports in the media, and performers to come and already in 2019 in the cinemas.
Very popular with the spectators: The aristocratic Crawley family, here at the hunting
The cult series is coming to the cinema
The sixth season ends in the year 1926: Lord Grantham’s daughter Edith married daughter Mary is expecting her second child. and the Butler the husband and wife, Bates is her first child welcome. With a last, longing look at the new year’s eve on the snow-covered estate of Downton Abbey, the success story of the series was in December of 2015 to the end of the first.
Since then, the vague guesses made about a further rotary round, but for a long time there was no concrete information. Now is for sure: The internationally acclaimed historical drama will pull in a new Format for his Fans once again in the spell.
“Welcome back to Downton! We are pleased to announce that #Downton Abbey comes to the big screen. The film will begin production this summer,” reads a Tweet from the official Downton-Abbey-Accounts.
Well-known faces in the movie
The actors were able to finally break her Silence and flooded their Social Media Accounts with the good news. Because it looks like according to Hollywood News site Deadline, will return actor important, such as Hugh Bonneville (Lord Grantham Robert Crawley), Michelle Dockery (Mary Talbot), Laura Carmichael (Edith Pelham) and Joanne Froggatt (Anna Bates) back to Highclere Castle in the English County of Hampshire, the main filming location of Downton Abbey.
Hope on a further rotation of the drama actress Maggie Smith, the embodied in the series of Violet Crawley and your 100. Birthday at the end of the series already for a long time had passed. The gray-haired Violet in a Film continues to be a significant part of the Yorkshire gentry family, would be, in your opinion, is absolutely unrealistic.
Maggie Smith in her role as Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham
“I’m glad it’s over, I really am. Towards the end you would have to have been the 110 years old. It would have so can go no further, made no sense,” said Maggie Smith in the New York Times. You celebrated this year with your 84 birthday. Whether Smith’s work from this summer on the Set of Downton Abbey-turning to see will be in the group of well-known faces will join is still open.
The production will be taken over as is the series of Carnival Films, the Distribution of Focus Features and Universal Pictures International. Brian Percival acts as a Director and Julian Fellowes, of the idea and the screenplays were written, is also sitting back in the boat.
The producers, Gareth Neame, Liz Trubridge and Nigel Marchant of the game. “It was our dream to provide millions of Fans worldwide, a movie, and now, after we have aligned all the stars, we will begin promptly with the shooting,” said producer Gareth Naeme in an Interview with the New York Times.
2011: Emmy for the cast of the cult series “Downton Abbey”
Cinema start in 2019
An exact date of when the Wait will end, and Downton Abbey will be shown as a Film on the cinema canvas, has not yet been announced. But it will be in 2019. Also, insights into the exact plot has not been revealed.
But anticipation is the greatest joy. And if one is relying on the success and the enthusiastic Fans of the series will be worth the Wait for the movie certainly.
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