'Downton Abbey: A New Era' Trailer Ushers the Crawley Household Into the Movie Business

The Crawleys are entering the movie business.

Returning stars include Maggie Smith, Hugh Bonneville, Elizabeth McGovern, Michelle Dockery, Laura Carmichael, Jim Carter, Brendan Coyle, Kevin Doyle, Joanne Froggatt, Harry Hadden-Paton, Robert James-Collier, Allen Leech, Phyllis Logan, Sophie McShera, Tuppence Middleton, Lesley Nicol, Imelda Staunton and Penelope Wilton.

“I should have thought the best thing about films is that you can’t hear them,” Smith’s Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess, says upon being told talkies are in. She quips, “Be even better if you couldn’t see them either!”

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Though Fellowes couldn’t say much about the forthcomingDowntonfilm, he promised an “unashamedly feel-good movie.”

“I like the idea that people go into the movie and have a great two hours and then go out to have dinner. That seems to me to be a good thing,” Fellowes said. “If we are useful for cheering people up and giving them an easy time of it, that doesn’t bother me.”

Downton Abbey: A New Erais in theaters May 20.

source: people.com