A ‘Downton Abbey’ movie? Don’t rule it out

As the ITV period drama is set to finish several years before of the 1929 stock market crash, producer Gareth Neame says rich territory is left to be mined if a film is made.

Speaking at The Television Critics Association panel discussion, producer Gareth Neame said there were no plans for a film adaptation but didn’t rule it out.

Read TV Guide’s full story for more spoilers, and cross your fingers that the Season 6 trailer they showed at the 2015 TCA press tour is released online soon. “I think a Downton movie would be wonderful, but there’s no script”. It was an global success and is the highest-rated PBS drama. And like the good ol’ Dowager Countess, we can only muster a facial expression of incredulity as we hold onto our cane for support.

“Downton Abbey” casts known English actors like Hugh Richard Bonneville Williams for the role of Robert Crawley, Maggie Smith as Violet Crawley and it also stars Jim Carter, Phyllis Logan, Jessica Rose Brown-Findlay, Laura Carmichael, and a lot more.

Carmichael and the cast recently finished shooting at Highclere Castle, and will complete filming in the next two weeks. When questioned about the possibility of a spin-off series in March, they said that they were open to all possibilities. “There’s speculation about whether we’ll ever make a Downton movie, we might, but there are no firm plans”. The show about the wealthy Crawley family and their armada of servants is coming to an end, but some people wish that it isn’t so. 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…. “In today’s world we contend with much more information than we can actually absorb and handle in our emotional development and it produces a low-grade anxiety all the time …”

However, all of these are just rumors, and are yet to be confirmed when “Downton Abbey” season 6 airs on January 3, 2016. Neame said he and series creator Julian Fellowes will consider a movie and/or spinoff.

The stunning duo were joined by Laura Carmichael, Elizabeth McGovern and Penelope Wilton, while show favourite Hugh Bonneville cut a dapper figure as he posed alongside his female cast mates.

The worldwide Business Times reports that after Mary, played by Michelle Dockery, lost her husband in season 3, grieved in season 4 and tried to get over her past in season 5, season 6 is the time for her to choose a suitor.

To which Joanne Froggatt, who played housemaid Anna Bates, replied: “I won’t miss mine!”