12/19/2023 0 Comments New downton abbey movie![]() While it went down very well with critics, Downton Abbey: A New Era hasn’t done nearly as well at the box office as the first film, the success of which I think took a lot of people by surprise. Returning as we did for those two films was really lovely, but I think there’ll be a whole new generation, like Star Wars spinning off all over the place.īut if it were to happen, would you be interested? It’s seven years since we did the TV show. But yeah, I think it’d be immensely unlikely that we would be brought back as a cast. So if you can capture the younger generation to enjoy people in frocks, then go for it. Bridgerton has been a magnificent success. I mean, there’s clearly an appetite for these sorts of shows. But I suspect, if there is, it would be a reboot. Is this something you’ve heard of? Have they asked you whether you’d be interesting in returning? I’ve heard from a good source that, following the success of the films, NBCUniversal and production firm Carnival are talking about bringing Downton back as a TV series. I can remember when I was first offered this show by (executive producer) Gareth Neame, it was before anyone was cast, and I said, “who are you talking to for the mother,” and he said Maggie Smith, and I said, “well, good luck with that, because that’s not going to happen.” And the rest is history. And I was able to reflect on the fact she’d been my mum, on and off, for 12 years, and that was quite remarkable, especially to have a legendary actress like that involved in our show. But after the death scene, which was my last scene with Maggie, we went and had a glass in her dressing room. I think there were three sets of Champagne. So like all good royalty, she got a good three-day send-off.Īnd did you do anything with Maggie off-screen. ![]() You obviously knew that it was coming, but was it still quite emotional? Did you do anything special?Īctually, there were three farewells, because there was the death scene, there was the last scene in the dining room, which was significant because it was always such a monstrous part of the filming schedule every time we came to it, and then we have her final shot, which was a very small moment in the hallway and not significant, but nevertheless her departure from the film. ![]() The first movie was great, with the King and Queen coming to stay and all sorts of shenanigans going on, but from my character’s point of view, there was a lot more to get my my teeth stuck into this time.Ī New Era did see the sad death of Maggie Smith’s Dowager Countess. And I also think the story just got a little more substantial somehow than the first movie. There’s a tiny bit, only about 30 seconds in the film, where we go out on a boat off the coast, and I remember saying to Simon Curtis that it served absolutely no narrative purpose at all, and he said, no, but it’s actually one of the most important scenes in the film because it gives the audience a sense of place, and it really looked magnificent on a big screen. The second film really did feel like a movie to me, because Andrew Dunn was able to really point his camera on that, particularly the French skyline, and it really felt very sumptuous. But I think there’s this sense of scale, which was captured particularly in the second. Obviously, the mechanics of it are still very much the same. With two Downton Abbey films under your belt, how have you been enjoying Downton in feature form compared to it as a TV series? Moving to another beloved franchise in which he has a starring role, Bonneville also talked about Paddington, revealing why he thought that Dougal Wilson, the newly-announced director of the third film, possessed all the “right flavors” to “look after the bear from Darkest Peru.” ![]() Why Dave Stewart Partnered With "Italy's Pink Floyd" for a Modern Rock Opera ![]() (Some sections of the interview include spoiler alerts for readers who haven’t see the latest movie.) To celebrate the launch of A New Era on home entertainment (it is being released on Blu-Ray and a collector’s edition DVD on July 5), The Hollywood Reporter caught up with the lord of the manor himself, Hugh Bonneville, who discussed rumors of Downton Abbey returning to TV and why he thought that the latest film was a “good note” to conclude the Crawleys’ lengthy and illustrious reign. Downton Abbey: A New Era, Focus Features’ second feature spin-off from the phenomenally successful TV series, jitterbugged its way into cinemas earlier this year.īringing back the original ensemble of regulars, plus a few new additions in Dominic West, Hugh Dancy, Laura Haddock and Nathalie Baye, the film - directed by Simon Curtis - ramped up the high-society hi-jinx, with sumptuous weddings, luxurious trips to the south of France and the rather meta inclusion of a silent era Hollywood film being shot in Downton itself. ![]()
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