Downton Abbey Head at Grand Finale, Potentially Restart

It’s been almost 15 years until the day since then “Abbei Downton“It was first broadcast on the British network of ITV.

Six seasons, five Christmas specials, 69 mocking nominations, 11 golden nominations of globes and extremely successful film trilogy rolls over later and heavy wooden doors so far-famous wooden works, finally close for good. As Carnival movies Entire Name Gareta Notes: “Downton Abbey: Grand Final“- It was redeemed globally on Friday over the focus -” it’s definitely the end. ”

Or is it?

Neaama was already a successful TV producer before he took the idea that it was for many years, “I was bothered in the head of the British aristocracy at the beginning of the 20th century and gave it to his friend Julian Felloves. “Downton” would become a show that Neatheur explains in the United Kingdom for “achieving Hollywood value” in global sales “and studies for young people without” Downton “and there would be no” bridgerton “without” Downtona “.

Carnival Has Since Made Numerous Hit Shows – Most Recently “The Day of the Jackal” Reimaging and the Colin Firth-Led “Lockerbie: A search for truth” – and is keeping it too in the historical “Haves and have not” Waters with us-focused “downton” Prequel “The Gilded Age” (which NeaMe Acknowledges was a “Slower Burn” But is now coming into ITS own HBO).

But for all the company’s all success, its small and large adventures on the screen with the Crawley family and their series of battles, drivers and cooks will be his call card forever. Perhaps perhaps, despite Nema’s claim that “Grand Final” is exactly what it says, he acknowledges return – especially in this era of restart – can never be “excluded”.

So, that is absolutely, definitely the end of “Downton”?

It is definitely the end and trace in the title. But I keep the right to change my mind.

“Downton” was triumphantly closed his doors before, just to reopen them back …

The TV show came to a certain end. Because even though I already had an ambition to take him to the big screen at that moment, there was no guarantee that it would work. So it was completed for TV show, for sure. But this is a complete stop on all these characters. Because the second film, I felt like a purple story, Maggie Smith, but really didn’t conclude for any of the other characters. So this is the ultimate point for all of them.

I hope it’s not a sudden, unhappy end?

No! It’s just the last time we’ll see these characters and we will feel where everyone goes.

When you started making the first movie, did you plan to have that a sequel or become trilogy? Or did you decide for movie-to-film depending on the box office?

I was quite confident to translate “Downton” to a big screen. I don’t know why, I just always felt there was something quite positive in the show. And that had pretty cinematic production values. And that first film was so successful in the box office and far and in guests with a focused film, which ever ever in whole history. So, then it was an idea to keep your thing all the time. And I think the trilogy of films on the back six seasons of TV show and five Christmas special specialists quite good innings. So we were ready to do one movie and that would be it, but we answered how well it was done.

It is obviously a great ensemble. Was it easy to throw together for this final urag?

It’s never directly. But there was goodwill on his part to do it. It was just a kind of right time, real money, getting the scenario we were all satisfied and the director we wanted to cooperate with.

You obviously wear the legacy of “Downton” with the Precuela series of “Golden Age.” It feels like it was slower, but it really started coming to her, especially in the third season.

It’s really interesting, because “Downton” was a hostel “was a huge hit from episode 1, and it was a huge hit in the United States, but it was constantly growing in the first three seasons until it really hit its apex. And “gilded” is a slower combustion, but now is a very significant goal for HBO.

Why do you think it took longer to go?

There is such a different link that Americans have with their own history compared to us on this side of the Atlantic. The idea for the show came in real, because “Downton” was such a massive hit in the United States, we constantly spoke to everyone: You have your version of aristocracy and ins and exit and Hawes and Ianova and up and down. And it was in a gilded aged and at the end of the 19th century. It’s just something that is rarely shown on the screen, partly, because people did not know about it, partly, because it is technically very difficult to perform before visual effects. So, I doubt the audience has only accepted the idea that he had an American “Downtonon”.

Do you want to see “Gilded Age” Enjoy similar “Downton” path? Maybe six or so season and then a few movies?

I didn’t really think about it. “Downton” Going to a big screen was something I started just planning for about 5. season. It was so successful to want that to continue for years. But I knew that creatively, it wouldn’t be fine, and I knew I couldn’t hold it much longer. I thought we weren’t really ready to finish “Downton”, but I’m not sure how long we can continue to go from the TV series. So, it really started to form when the legacy of “Downton” became clear. And I don’t think we’re still in that position with “gilded”.

In a way, “Downton” can be attributed to being created on top TV in the UK, it was one of the first large British shows that it would have such a great success around the world.

It was absolutely crucial. From a business perspective, it was a really critical moment in the evolution of British television. The decision I brought to sell a company in universal because I wanted to have a big, powerful studio behind the company. I think I was the first British producer who made such a move. Within a year, “in the city center” He went out in the UK in MiPCOM in 2010. years, I have definitely wanted to buy such a genre of the BBC, and is distributed and, with universal distribution and, with universal distribution and, with universal distribution and, with universal distribution and, with universal distribution ITV. And I just moved it to Universal. The sales team listed a phenomenal job and their view was, if it was emissions to pay us, say, $ 100,000 for the episode of medical emissions “houses”, we will not give you “downton”. And they got their number.

So, this is the first time that British TV show has achieved Hollywood value in global sales. And sold each territory in the world. At the American network television, it was in that point that everyone in the industry was thinking, and then you saw Netflix in the UK and other studies that are managed by London, it is possible that it is possible to make a lot of money from a successful British show. So I feel that there would be no “crown” without “Downton” and there would be no “Bridgerton” without “Downton”. And many, many other shows. I don’t think it doesn’t over say that “Downton” emphasized the accusation of British TV drama in the world.

We are in the time of reboot of the beloved British IP. HBO’s “Harry Potter” again recorded a few more years after the first film. So if “Downton” began in 2010. years, would you be open to return to it, maybe about 2035. Years? Was there any discussion with universal?

It is a completely reasonable question, because, as you say, you are looking at these main IP bits and is now culture and appetite to revise these things. So, it certainly cannot be excluded at a stage in the future. We will see if it is earned in my life or not again.