Focus Features has finally unleased the first real look at Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, the third and final film in the movie series based on the PBS period drama created by Julian Fellowes. The film hits theaters September 12.
With some of the same footage shown to exhibitors during Focus’ presentation at CinemaCon earlier this spring, the teaser lays out the plot: the Crawley family and its staff arrive at 1930, looking to the future while saying goodbye to the past.
That includes the family’s famed Grantham Estate. At one point, the head of the family Robert Crawley (Hugh Bonneville) pays respect to the mansion that made the show famous — the real Highclere Castle in Hampshire, England — by giving it a pat and a kiss, apparently as the family says goodbye to it.
The castle had been the home to the Granthams since the show’s launch in 2011. It would run for six seasons, spanning 52 episodes and five Christmas specials. On the film side, Downton Abbey was released in 2019, with Downton Abbey: A New Era following in 2022. The first two movies grossed more than $287 million combined globally.
Simon Curtis returns to direct the final installment after helming A New Era. Fellowes wrote all three movies.
The familiar cast also returns for The Grand Finale, which features Bonneville, Laura Carmichael, Jim Carter, Raquel Cassidy, Brendan Coyle, Michelle Dockery, Kevin Doyle, Michael Fox, Joanne Froggatt, Paul Giamatti, Harry Hadden-Paton, Robert James-Collier, Allen Leech, Phyllis Logan, Elizabeth McGovern, Sophie McShera, Lesley Nicol, Dominic West, Penelope Wilton, Joely Richardson, Paul Copley and Douglas Reith.
New to the franchise cast are Joely Richardson, Alessandro Nivola, Simon Russell Beale and Arty Froushan.
Producers are Gareth Neame, Fellowes and Liz Trubridge Nigel Marchant is executive producer.
Check out the trailer above and the poster below.
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