“Downton Abbey 3” is formally taking place!
A 3rd film in the preferred British historical drama franchise was confirmed by Aim Characteristics on Monday.
Julian Fellowes, who produced the beloved television collection that spawned the movies, is crafting the new motion picture. Simon Curtis, the director of the 2nd movie, “Downton Abbey: A New Era,” will also helm the third film.
A variety of forged users are returning which includes Hugh Bonneville, Elizabeth McGovern, Michelle Dockery, Laura Carmichael, Jim Carter, Phyllis Logan, Robert James-Collier, Joanne Froggatt, Allen Leech, and far more.
Dominic West will also return as Male Dexter from the second movie.
Paul Giamatti is becoming a member of the film to reprise his Tv position as Harold Levinson, the brother of McGovern’s Cora Grantham.
Giamatti, 56, performed Harold for the Xmas special in 2013.
Joely Richardson, Alessandro Nivola, Simon Russell Beale and Arty Frousha are also between the solid additions.
The “Downton Abbey” Instagram webpage released a video clip of the cast reuniting to start out production.
“It feels remarkable. A tad psychological,” Dockery, 42, reported in the footage. “It’s wonderful all to be back again with each other once more. You occur again with each other and it is like no time has handed at all. We’re so content to announce that we’re in creation for the third ‘Downton Abbey’ motion picture. We just can’t wait around to see you.”
Plot facts and a launch day for “Downton Abbey 3” have still to be verified.
The Solar previously noted that the cast will get started capturing this summer time at Highclere Castle in Hampshire, England, for a 2025 debut.
The most current news did not appear as a whole shock to supporters considering that actress Imelda Staunton — who performed Girl Maud Bagshaw in the first two films — allow the information slip back again in March.
“There will be the remaining movie — there you go,” Staunton, 68, dished on BBC Radio 2 at the time.
Staunton was not introduced as 1 of the actors appearing in in the third film.
“Downton Abbey” ran until finally 2015, across 5 seasons, getting the influential Crawley clan and their estate servants during the turmoil of the 1910s and 1920s.
The series was nominated for 69 Emmy Awards and won 15, like Exceptional Hairstyling for a One Camera Sequence four moments.
Two large-display screen adaptions based on the demonstrate ended up released in 2019 and 2022.
The films grossed $194 million and $92.7 million, respectively, at the around the world box business office.
Past yr, Fellowes, 74, teased that he was intrigued in accomplishing an additional “Downton Abbey” motion picture.
“I have stated goodbye to ‘Downton’ so quite a few moments, and I have written the last scene about 6 or 7 moments,” he mentioned on TalkRadio. “Now, I have bought out of the pattern of generating everlasting statements about regardless of whether it’s gone. It just offers me a great deal of enjoyment that so quite a few men and women enjoyed it, so to truly feel that you established a exhibit that cheers men and women up and they experienced a superior time with it, I really like that.”
