A second Downton Abbey film is in the offing, six months before the first opens. The lives of the Crawley family upstairs and their staff downstairs fascinated ITV audiences for six years.
A follow-up movie written by Julian Fellowes was shot last year, with Hugh Bonneville as Lord Grantham, Elizabeth McGovern as his wife Cora, and their daughters Lady Mary (Michelle Dockery) and Lady Edith (Laura Carmichael) gathered again with Maggie Smith as Violet, the Dowager Countess.
Also returning are many of Downton’s downstairs contingent played by Joanne Froggatt, Brendan Coyle, Sophie McShera, Rob James-Collier, Phyllis Logan, Jim Carter and Lesley Nicol; plus (upstairs again) Penelope Wilton as Isobel Crawley and a newcomer to the Downton cast, Imelda Staunton.
Maggie Smith (left) shares a laugh with Imelda Staunton (right) during filming for Downton Abbey in September 2018. The final series of the original television run finished in 2015 but could be brought back for two feature films
Bosses from Universal Pictures, Focus Features and Carnival Film & Television were preparing to view the latest cut of the film, shot in and around Highclere Castle in Hampshire and Ealing Studios.
A handful have already watched an unfinished version and I hear there was much delight at how it turned out.
People I spoke to in Los Angeles and London told me they’re exploring the possibility of a second picture.
It would clearly depend on how well the first film does when it’s released on September 13 and whether the cast can be reassembled.
84-year-old Dame Maggie Smith plays Lady Violet Crawley in the series, for which she has won three Primetime Emmy Awards
But Downton Abbey is a much- loved show with characters who have become part of popular culture around the world.
Let’s hope movie-goers are on their best behaviour watching Downton on the big screen.
Better still, I think Universal should get Maggie Smith to record a voiceover telling them not to talk during it.
Though I wonder if Violet (who as a lady of leisure famously asked: ‘What is a weekend?’) knows what a cinema is, either?
Hattie gets all amorous in Orpheus
Award-winning Hattie Morahan will join Jemima Rooper, with Seth Numrich as the drifter who brings sexual danger to a Southern back-water in Tennessee Williams’s drama Orpheus Descending.
Director Tamara Harvey has cast the trio in her production of the play she describes as about ‘passion, lost hope and rekindled desire’.
Morahan, who won trophies for her performance as Nora In A Doll’s House at the Young Vic, has been cast as Lady Torrance, the proprietress of a store in fictional Two River County.
She’s the lonely daughter of an immigrant Sicilian murdered years before by the Ku Klux Klan; she’s also unhappily married to a loathsome tyrant.
Everything changes when Val Xavier, a handsome guitar-playing stranger in a snakeskin jacket, descends to rescue Lady Torrance.
‘Lady’s this woman who feels that her life has gone — but life offers up a second chance,’ said Harvey, who has waited 19 years for the opportunity to direct Williams’s 1957 drama.
She was training at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts when a director there gave her a copy of the play. Harvey said Orpheus Descending has stood the test of time and has contemporary relevance.
‘There’s something really powerful in it, in this moment, about how we treat outsiders and how small communities can turn on anyone who’s in the least bit different; anyone from out of town,’ said Harvey, who worked with writer Laura Wade on the acclaimed play Home, I’m Darling.
The latter started at Theatr Clwyd (where Harvey is the artistic chief) before transferring to the National Theatre then the Duke of York’s, where it’s running until April 13. It has just received five Olivier Award nominations.
Harvey described Morahan and Rooper (the latter has been cast as Carol Cutrere, who has met Val Xavier before) as ‘that rare combination . . . who can be brilliantly funny but also break our hearts’.
Numrich, an American actor who has enjoyed theatrical success in New York and London, takes on a role that was played by Marlon Brando in a film version renamed The Fugitive Kind.
Orpheus runs at Theatr Clwyd from April 15 and at the Menier Chocolate Factory, London, from May 9.
Watch out for...
Geoffrey Streatfeild who will play Charles Condomine, Lisa Dillon (far right) as his second wife Ruth and Emma Naomi (right) as his mischievous — and deceased — first wife Elvira, whose spirit is summoned by Madame Arcati (Jennifer Saunders) in Richard Eyre’s take on Noel Coward’s Blithe Spirit.
The comedy, which is quite dark at its core, begins performances at the Theatre Royal Bath from June 13. Ms Dillon has a knack for comedy and tragedy while Ms Naomi proved she has a passion for Pinter when she participated in the Pinter season at the Pinter Theatre.
Katherine Parkinson who is in advanced negotiations to play Sonya in Rupert Everett’s production of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya in which he will play the eponymous uncle. As this column revealed a few weeks ago, the production — running at the Theatre Royal, Bath, from July 18 — will also mark Everett’s theatrical directing debut. It’s a coup to get Ms Parkinson (right) who was nominated for her role in the play Home, I’m Darling which is running at the Duke of York’s Theatre. She also starred in the television show Humans. Everett is casting the other roles while he waits for Ms Parkinson’s answer.
Filmmaker Cary Joji Fukunaga and a small crew are heading to Norway to shoot a frozen lake before it thaws. The footage will be incorporated into the pre-credit scenes for Bond 25, starring Daniel Craig.
It’s interesting to note that Danny Boyle, who withdrew as director, had wanted to film an iced-over lake in Canada. Principal filming will take place in Jamaica and at studios in the UK. The latest version of the screenplay is still being written.
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