Downton Abbey’s Julian Fellowes says a second movie is a

Downton Abbey followers can loosen up: Creator Julian Fellowes has revealed that he hasn’t ‘killed off the forged’ in a Corrie-style catastrophe, so a second movie is a particular risk.

The fashionable ITV interval drama has been tailored right into a film set for launch later this 12 months, bringing again a lot of the beloved unique forged together with Lady Mary (Michelle Dockery), the Dowager Countess (Maggie Smith), Lady Edith (Laura Carmichael), Anna Bates (Joanne Froggatt), John Bates (Brendan Coyle), the Countess of Grantham (Elizabeth McGovern), and the Earl of Grantham (Hugh Bonneville).

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Speaking about the potential of a follow-up movie, Fellowes informed The Sun: “I have not killed off half the forged in a Coronation Street-style crash so a follow-up is a particular risk.”

A trailer for the Downton Abbey film was launched final 12 months, that includes the maids getting ready the well-known property for the arrival of a visitor, and somebody travelling by bicycle as much as the home to ship a telegram. However, little else has been given away about what the storyline will entail.

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Penelope Wilton – who has reprised her position as Isobel Crawley – lately disclosed what followers can count on, telling Good Housekeeping UK: “Hopefully individuals will benefit from the movie… It has some superb set items in it and, once I say that, there are huge scenes with lots of people concerned.

“It’s been very good [to reunite with the cast], and it has been a lot shorter, so as an alternative of seven months it was 9 weeks; and it was very good to see everybody once more.”

On the strain of dwelling as much as diehard followers’ expectations, After Life star Wilton added: “The individuals outdoors really feel the strain greater than we do. If you do a movie, you do the script that you simply’re given. And we all know one another, so we’ve an amazing shorthand with each other different. So it makes working collectively very good.

“It’s very nice and extremely satisfying to see some of the younger members of the cast who really hadn’t done anything when we started, and they’re all having flourishing careers now so that’s very nice, too.”

The much-loved ITV interval drama adopted the aristocratic Crawley household and their group of devoted servants on the fictional Yorkshire Estate, Downton Abbey, from 1912 till 1925.

Downton Abbey is scheduled for launch on September 13.

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