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Focus Options in the present day supplied CinemaCon attendees an emotional have a look at the primary trailer for Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale. That is the final within the trilogy of huge display continuations of the British TV drama phenomenon. It’s written by collection creator Julian Fellowes and directed by Simon Curtis.
Plot particulars had beforehand been sparse, however the trailer proven in the present day features a title card that tells us “It’s time to say goodbye” earlier than we see Hugh Bonneville’s Earl of Grantham patting the facade of the manor home on the Grantham Property in what certainly seems to be a farewell.
Earlier than that, we hear Jim Carter’s Mr. Carson saying, “Welcome to 1930.” There are photographs of the household on the races, of Dominic West’s Man Dexter in London’s West Finish and Michelle Dockery’s Woman Mary ascending steps whereas sporting a luxurious pink robe. A portrait of the late Maggie Smith’s Dowager Countess can be lovingly framed.
The primary two Downton films grossed over $287M mixed globally.
We realized in Could that manufacturing was formally underway on the third with essential solid members returning and a lot of new additions to the function franchise.
Oscar nominee Paul Giamatti is reprising his function from the TV collection as Cora’s (Elizabeth McGovern) brother Harold Levinson. New to the films are Joely Richardson, Alessandro Nivola and Home of the Dragon’s Simon Russell Beale and Arty Froushan.
In addition to McGovern, different returning key solid embody Bonneville, Dockery, Laura Carmichael, Jim Carter, Phyllis Logan, Robert James-Collier, Joanne Froggatt, Allen Leech, Penelope Wilton, Lesley Nicol, Michael Fox, Raquel Cassidy, Brendan Coyle, Kevin Doyle, Harry Hadden-Paton, Sophie McShera, Paul Copley and Douglas Reith.
The movie can pay homage to the “finish of an period” with the lack of the Dowager Countess, which has taken on better significance following the demise of Oscar-winning actress Maggie Smith final September. Smith performed Violet Crawley, the Dowager Countess of Grantham, in all six seasons of the collection and reprised the function within the two subsequent movies, together with her character dying in 2022’s Downton Abbey: A New Period.
The home theatrical launch is ready for September 12 this yr — can we get a Venice launch?
