Downton Abbey 2 gets release date

The unique principal solid of Downton Abbey are returning for a second movie that can arrive in US theatres December 22 this yr, Focus Options introduced on Monday.

Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes has written the sequel’s screenplay, and Simon Curtis (My Week With Marilyn) is directing. Hugh Bonneville, Michelle Dockery and 86-year-old Maggie Smith will all be again, together with some new faces, together with Hugh Dancy, Laura Haddock, Nathalie Baye and Dominic West.

Manufacturing started final week on Downton Abbey 2.

“After a very challenging year with so many of us separated from family and friends, it is a huge comfort to think that better times are ahead and that next Christmas we will be re-united with the much beloved characters of ‘Downton Abbey,’” mentioned producer Gareth Neame.

2019 movie Downton Abbey, coming three years after the collection ending, made $194.3 million on a modest funds of lower than $20 million.