Full Trailer for DOWNTON ABBEY: A NEW ERA Reveals That a Film Will Be Shot at Downton
Focus Features has released a full trailer for Downton Abbey: A New Era, and up until this point, all we’ve known about the film is that it would center on the trials and tribulations of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants later into the 1920s.
This new trailer has revealed that the big story will revolve around a movie director coming to Downton to shoot a film. Yes, Downton will be the set of a movie. “The modern world comes to Downton.” Then there’s the side story of a mysterious villa in the South of France that was left to Violet Crawley by a mysterious man.
The ensemble cast includes Hugh Bonneville, Elizabeth McGovern, Maggie Smith, Michelle Dockery, Laura Carmichael, Jim Carter, Phyllis Logan, Hugh Dancy, Nathalie Baye, Laura Haddock, and Dominic West.
The screenplay is written by Downton creator Julian Fellowes, with Gareth Neame and Liz Trubridge producing with Fellowes. Simon Curtis (My Week with Marilyn) directed, and it looks like another enjoyable Downton Abbey movie!
In a previous interview, Fellowes said the new installment is an “unashamedly feel-good movie. It’s really a new era. The further the ’20s went along, the more the world was changing in so many ways. Everything from entertainment to transport was really different by the end of the ’20s. That’s what we’re referring to in that.”
Downton Abbey: A New Era will be released in theaters on March 18th, 2022.