NBCUniversal bosses claim Downton Abbey is gearing up for a movie, which might shoot as early as 2018.
We’ll see if Edelstein’s plans for a 2018 shoot come to fruition, but what new ground might a Downton Abbey movie tread?
It’s hard to pinpoint when exactly Downton Abbey transitioned from water-cooler drama to gilded afterthought, but we didn’t have to wait long to revisit the Crawley family.
Even as the period drama ended its run in only March of 2016, NBCUniversal International Studios president Michael Edelstein told the Associated Press at Singapore’s Downton Abbey: The Exhibition (h/t TVLine) that “There’s a movie in the works.