Exclusive ‘Downton Abbey’ Clip: How The Film Differs From The Beloved TV Series
In this day and age of IPs, remakes, and sequels, filmmakers have to work carefully to bring a beloved property from the small screen to the big screen. Perhaps no one knows that struggle more thanDownton AbbeycreatorJulian Fellowes, who this year helped adapt his beloved costume drama into a feature film that follows the events of the TV series.
/Film is debuting an exclusiveDownton Abbeyclip from the bonus features of the film’s Blu-ray release, available for purchase now, which explore Fellowes' screenwriting process in turning theDownton Abbeyseries into a film. Watch theDownton Abbeyclip below.
Downton Abbey Clip
Fellowes has spent nearly a decade with the Crawley family and their distinguished country estate, Downton Abbey, premiering his critically acclaimed costume drama series in 2010 on ITV and PBS. So it’s fitting that Fellowes would be the one to bid farewell to this family as the writer of theDownton Abbeyfeature film directed byMichael Engler. The exclusive clip above is from a bonus feature from theDownton AbbeyBlu-ray release that dives into how Fellowes continued the story of the Crawley family, and what changes he had to make to end the saga in a two-hour film. Whatever changes or compromises he had to make, however, didn’t take away from the essence of what makesDownton Abbeyso appealing: the rich stories of every single character.
“I think there was something appealing in that philosophy that on the whole, every life has its hurdles that must be overcome,” Fellowes says in the clip. “And it is one of my core beliefs that for all the horror stories in every day’s newspaper, the fact is that most people are trying to do their best.”
See the bonus features for theDownton AbbeyBlu-ray, DVD, and Digital releases below.
