The long-awaited sequel to the Downton Abbey film will be titled Downton Abbey: A New Era, it was announced on Wednesday.
Focus Features shared the news while also showing a teaser for the upcoming film at CinemaCon in Las Vegas, revealing that the entire cast will return.
The chiefs also announced that the Crawley family and their servants would welcome several newcomers to their manor house. as Laura Haddock, Dominic West and Hugh Dancy have joined the cast.
Coming soon: the long-awaited sequel to the Downton Abbey movie will be titled Downton Abbey: A New Era, announced Wednesday
The brief teaser featured the Crawley family and several staff members preparing for a trip abroad, according to Deadline.
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The main cast, including Maggie Smith, Hugh Bonneville, Michelle Dockery, Elizabeth McGovern and Laura Charmichael, is scheduled to return.
Exciting: Focus Features has shared the news while showing a teaser for the upcoming film at CinemaCon in Las Vegas, revealing that the entire cast will reprise their roles.
Family: The brief teaser shown at the conference featured the Crawley family and several staff members preparing for a trip abroad.
New face: It was also announced that Dominic West will join the cast, although the nature of his role has not yet been revealed.
New additions to the cast include Hugh Dancy, Laura Haddock, Nathalie Baye and Dominic West, although no details were given about their characters.
Downton Abbey series creator Julian Fellowes co-wrote the screenplay with Gareth Neame and Liz Trubridge, directed by Simon Curtis.
Fellowes created the original series that aired on PBS, which lasted six seasons from 2010 to 2016.
The protagonist of Glamorous: White Lines, Laura Haddock, has also joined the cast of the sequel to the period
New faces: Hugh Dancy (left) and Nathalie Baye have also joined the film’s stellar cast, although no further details have been revealed about their roles.
Cast: Downton Abbey series creator Julian Fellowes co-wrote the screenplay with Gareth Neame and Liz Trubridge, with Simon Curtis directing
The show followed the life of the Crawley family, who owned a large English estate in the early 20th century, and their servants.
Although some scenes are shot in studios and in different locations, the cast and crew spend much of their time at Highclere Castle, which is the house of the eighth count and countess of Carnavaron, whose family has lived there since 1679.
The cast reunited for the 2019 Downton Abbey film, which continued the story from where he left the series.
The film saw the beloved characters Robert (Hugh) and Cora Crawley (Elizabeth McGovern) that the kings and queen will visit them and that the estate will have to be prepared for the royal visit.
However, the family has to deal with several setbacks and problems along the way, including a suspicious assassination attempt.
The film was a surprise hit at the box office, with $ 96.8 million nationally and $ 237.8 million worldwide, with only a budget of $ 13 million.
Family: The program followed the life of the Crawley family, who owned a large English estate in the early 20th century, and their servants.
Focus Features will release Downton Abbey: A New Era on March 18, 2022, only in theaters across the country.
The sequel will only have one new film, Unbreakable Boy with Zachary Levi and Patricia Heaton.
It will also arrive a week after the Disney animated film Turning Red on March 11 and a week before the long-awaited sequel to Marvel Doctor Strange in the Madness Multiverse on March 25.
In February, actor Hugh Bonneville revealed that he had seen the script for the sequel, saying it is likely to happen once Covid is “under sensible control.”
Release Date: Focus Features will release Downton Abbey: A New Era on March 18, 2022, only in theaters across the country (the cast appears in the original image of the original series)
The star, who plays Lord Grantham in the film and previous drama series of the hit, talked about plans for another film at The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show.
He told the BBC Radio 2 program: “Here’s the deal, if everyone who is offered a vaccine gets a vaccine, we can make a movie, we’ll make a movie.”
The actor told Zoe he had seen a script for the film and added, “The planets are spinning. They’re starting to line up.
“There’s something called coronavirus touching and until this is sensibly controlled, we won’t be able to get all these ducks in a row.”
He added: “But there is definitely an intention to do it. We would love to do it. We are desperate to do it.”
Hugh also said he believes the audience would “enjoy” another Downton film after the “disaster we experienced” last year.
Coming soon: it will also arrive a week after the Disney animated film Turning Red and a week before the long-awaited sequel to Marvel Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.