The stars of DowntonAbbey share a few new clues about the upcoming film
King George and Queen Mary’s Downton Visit Is Based on a Real-Life Royal Tripseasons, series creator Fellowes maintained a difficult balancing act—interweaving the stories of over a dozen characters with real-life historical events.
“Downton is also in Yorkshire,” explained Fellowes. “And so it seemed to me quite a good parallel, [and something] that the servants and the family would be equally as excited about. In a film, every story has to be resolved within that film, and you want a unifying bond in a film—so it isn’t too scattered in its focus. That’s what the royal visit has provided us—an event that involves everyone in the house.
There will also be appropriate pomp and circumstance—as evidenced by a parade scene in the nearby village involving hundreds of extras in full uniform, plus every single cast member, horses, and cannons. “It’s pretty spectacular,” Engler said of the parade, put on for the king and queen. “It is like a military mobilization, actually, to make something like that happen. But you know, the film gods were on our side with this one, it felt like.
Engler considered the pageantry around the royal visit to be the perfect premise for a film. “It is brilliant, actually, because I was thinking, How do you make a film in a way that makes it feel like we’re not just spending more money and calling it a movie? The scale of this visit is inherently cinematic. All the design and production values ofthat everybody’s come to love are there.
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