'Downton Abbey' Returns! Here's a First Look at 'A' 'New Era', an 'Unashamedly Feel-Good Movie'

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Return to the Abbey!

The Crawleys and their staff will be back for another movie later this year. Here’s PEOPLE’s first look atDownton Abbey: A New Era!

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Fellowes, 72, calls the movies “extensions of the series,” which ran for six seasons, and saysthe upcoming installmentwill pick up where the last left off.

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Dockery, 39, and the rest of the main cast — includingMaggie Smith, Hugh Bonneville, Elizabeth McGovern, Laura Carmichael and Jim Carter — will all be back forA New Era.Hugh Dancy, Laura Haddock, Nathalie Baye andDominic Westhave also signed on for the sequel.

Though Fellowes can’t say too much more about the forthcomingDowntonfilm, he promises an “unashamedly feel-good movie.”

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“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 says. “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 Eraopens March 18, 2022.

source: people.com