Do you think their Will be a film of Downton Abbey? Because to me it just sounds like nothing being done about it and it's just hot air.
I don’t think that there will be a movie myself either, which I believe is probably for the best. One of the reasons that the show ended was because the actors wanted to go work on other projects, and they’d be tied up with them and be too busy anyway. If a film was actually planned, I assumed that they’d have been contracted for it already and it doesn’t seem like they have. I think the media etc. mentioned it to Fellowes and Gareth et al., they realized it was good PR, and then the cast was instructed to run with it if asked (much like when they had to hide S6 was the end before the announcement). I think that the movie rumors will continue through until next January at least, as I think they want to keep DA on everyone’s mind during award season. I’m sure they’ll still get asked, but it also might actually be eventually stamped out once the SAG Awards are over.
I can’t see Maggie wanting to do it at all, and I have a feeling that they might get a hard no from other cast members as well. Gareth himself first told Yahoo he didn’t think they were be a film and then joined the hype train, and given that Fellowes strove for a happy ending… I feel like he might decide not to if he can’t get all his players back, which he counts as the hardest factor about it all (although money talks). In general though, I think it’s as you put it, hot air. Fellowes and Gareth claim if they do a movie, they’d need to do it ASAP, and they aren’t doing things ASAP, so I think that answers the question.
Reblogging my answer on this. Until I see a trusted news source (i.e. Michael Ausiello at TV Line) or better yet a press release from Carnival, they aren’t doing a movie. The cast is talking about it I don’t think means much. And really, it’s not fair to the fans, nor to them, to keep stringing it out.
I agree @angel-princess-anna! The Sun doesn’t count lol!
I’d love to here people thoughts on a movie as I’m a bit 50/50 myself. I love, love, love the idea of more Downton, more Banna and (hopefully) an official name for Baby Bates! BUT (and a big but) Fellows has always loved to torture our Banna and I don’t know how much more I can take. Also, I doubt that they’d get all the cast to sign on and then they’d have some awful excuse to explain some of them not being there (probably a death - so inventive Fellows!) So, I’m really in 2 minds! Anyone else?
As much as I’d love to see more of our favorites onscreen, I’d only want a film if the entire cast agreed to return. If some of the actors didn’t, I’m afraid that Fellowes et al would decide to explain their absences by saying that the various characters had died in the interim, and I really do NOT want the happy endings of S6 ruined in that way. I’d much rather be able to imagine them continuing to live happily in the DA universe than have to contend with a new canon in which what we thought were happy endings at the end of S6 turned out not to be in the long run. Just my two cents!
I would be VEEEEEERY surprised if Brendan Coyle agreed to do a film.
And that, as an Anna x Bates shipper, is exactly why I do not want a movie. There’s ways to get around it: A/B got the hotel, Anna takes BB to visit DA with Bates still back at the hotel. Do I think they’d go with this scenario… eeeh…? Plus, even if we’d get to see Anna and BB, it would be weird not to see John with them, and it would not as fulfilling as it could have been. But really, I feel that a movie would spell death for Bates and NOPE DO NOT WANT, not after they finally got their overly deserved happy ending.
(I’m not even so sure Joanne wants to do a DA movie really herself so maybe they’d just move to the hotel in the interim anyway. All that said, I still don’t even think a DA movie is really in the works. They’ve been doing the same hemming and hawing for it for almost nine months. Again, so if they claim they need to a ASAP, the time has passed)
Brendan will never do a movie, sadly, I think. However my wager is that they will do a movie in about two years. It's a money bet - they have a big cast, yes, but most of them haven't found major work post-downton. Jim, for example, has been open about work being slow. I think a movie would be bankable and therefore possible.
