Downton Abbey movie possible
– Neame also said that if “Downton Abbey” had made it to Season 7 or Season 8, they might have made it to the 1929 stock market crash: “I don’t know if I could bear to see [Robert Crawley] go through a financial disaster”.
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.
Gareth thinks there’d be “a lot of rich territory” for a big screen version of Downton to cover. “There’s speculation about whether we’ll ever make a “Downton” movie, we might, but there are no firm plans”, he said, according to Entertainment Weekly.
The high-toned soap opera about the upstairs and downstairs occupants of a stately English mansion dealing with early 20th-century social change will end production August. 15.
The Golden Globe awardee period drama was first aired in United Kingdom via ITV in 2010 and through PBS in the US in 2011. “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 …” When your show is now in 1924, but you want to avoid the 1930s youre running out of room to work.
PBS chief Paula Kerger also revealed that the show would have a float in the Pasadena Tournament of Roses parade.
The cast only has two weeks left of filming on the series, and they’ve already wrapped production at Highclere Castle, which stands in for Downton on the show. Inevitably, there comes a time when all shows should end, and “Downton” is no exception. “We can promise a final season full of all the usual drama and intrigue, but with the added excitement of discovering how and where they all end up…”
Michelle Dockery, who’s played Lady Mary through all the good time and the heartbreaks, has admitted that she “didn’t want to leave” the set of Highclere Castle in West Berkshire, whilst Lady Edith actress Laura Carmichael says: ‘We had a good cry.’.
So don’t miss out on this one and as Matthew Crawley said from Season 3, “Well I must take one thing for granted”.
Moffat said he and co-executive producer Mark Gatiss are game to keep going. They’ve taken me and all of us to the top of the mountain.
Series host and executive producer Henry Louis Gates Jr. has issued an apology, saying he regretted forcing PBS to defend the integrity of its programming.
“He wants to conserve the best of the past, but absolutely understands that the future beckons, and the question in this series is do they succeed”, Hugh added.