Downton Abbey will soon come to an end – but could the estate one day reopen its doors in the form of a film?
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Asked by one reporter about the show wrapping its run in 1925, several years before the stock market crash, Gareth said there is potential to revisit a later period of the “Downton” characters in the future. “It’s something we’ve talked about”, he said, adding that though he thinks a film would be “a wonderful thing”, there is now no script or firm plans in place at the moment. Afterward, he told The Associated Press that such a project could be made as a big-screen theatrical release but reaffirmed it was speculative at this point. “It’s just a attractive send off to the series and I think it’s fun”, said Kerger.
The series about the upstairs and downstairs occupants of a stately English home will end production August. 15.
The Television Critics Association panel discussion in Beverly Hills was bitter-sweet as its stars and producers looked back at the drama’s past seasons and ahead to its conclusion.
“Downton Abbey” is coming to an end early next year, but that may not be the last we see of the Crawleys. “It was [creator] Julian [Fellows] who said he felt it would be a bit truncated that way…so he wanted to do another nine episodes to make the stories land in a more appropriate way”, Hugh Bonneville (Robert Crawley) revealed on stage.
Laura Carmichael, who plays Lady Edith, said it was unusual saying good-bye to Highclere, which played the Crawley home for six seasons. “And it’s brought home to [the characters] when we go to visit a neighbor in the county who is literally having to sell the family silver. It was really amusing”.
Surely, the key word in that sentence for the show’s rabid fans is “yet”. It was an global success and is the highest-rated PBS drama.
“I’ll miss being in a hit TV show”, said Elizabeth McGovern, who played Cora Crawley, the countess of Grantham.
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“Some of us would be dead”.
