Downton Abbey is ending, but that doesn’t mean it’s gone forever.
With Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale now in theaters, creator Julian Fellowes is saying goodbye to the Crawley family and the characters who have charmed viewers for 15 years. Still, the story could continue in new ways.
Fellowes says this movie finishes the tale he began in 2010 and is the last time we’ll see this group of characters. Yet there’s room for possible prequels, spinoffs about their children, and more.
That’s a possibility. I’ve learned never to say never anymore, because you have to take it back. Fellowes adds that he’s not against the idea of revisiting Downton, but it would have to be in a different period of history so that their problems were different and they were facing different issues. On that basis, I don’t see why not, but we’ll have to see what happens.
he tells Entertainment Weekly
Fellowes has plenty to do already. He’s the co-showrunner with Sonja Warfield of HBO’s The Gilded Age, which was just renewed for a fourth season. The series connects to Downton, set in America in the late 19th century during the era of robber barons.
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That world is where Downton’s Cora Crawley (Elizabeth McGovern) comes from, once a young American heiress who married into the British aristocracy to help save the Downton estate with her dowry.
It’s a story a lot like what Gladys Russell (Taissa Farmiga) experienced in season 3 of The Gilded Age. Fans are eager to see a younger version of Cora appear on the show.
We’ll see. I’ve also had requests for prequels of different characters. You just have to see what turns up, really. It isn’t like being a banker; there isn’t a logical progression. You never know what’s coming.
he says about the chance of a crossover
Source: EW