Calling all “Downton Abbey” fans — welcome to 1930.
Focus Features has released the teaser trailer for the third movie and final installment, “Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale,” where the Crawley family will finally say goodbye to Downton Abbey.
The teaser begins with the family all together at a racetrack, where Mr. Carson (Jim Carter) welcomes everyone in attendance to 1930.
The trailer continues by showing scenes in downtown London with Lady Mary (Michelle Dockery) donning new fashion and going to the theater and then up to Yorkshire county, where the Downton estate lies.
While the trailer doesn’t reveal much about the storyline of the film, it does share some emotional moments to expect, including Mary looking sentimentally at a portrait of Violet Crawley, the Dowager Countess of Grantham, who was played by the late Maggie Smith.
As Lord Grantham (Hugh Bonneville) says goodbye to Downton, the teaser announces that the final chapter of the franchise will be in theaters on September 12.
Watch the teaser trailer for “Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale” below!
What will ‘Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale’ be about?
With most of the plot a mystery, according to People, the film will center around the cast as they face and embrace a new chapter and “lead Downton Abbey into the future.”
Audiences will follow Lady Mary as she navigates the streets of high society London, while Lord and Lady Grantham (Elizabeth McGovern) take care of things at Downton, according to Variety.
“The place we’ll always remember. The family we’ll never forget. Everything has led to this,” states the franchise’s X account.
The upcoming film will be directed by British filmmaker and TV producer, Simon Curtis, and written by “Downton Abbey” creator, Julian Fellowes, according to Variety.
The Crawley family was first introduced through the six-season series that ran from 2010 through 2015 where the characters depicted the sophisticated highs and dramatic lows of aristocratic life in England.
The story continued with the films, “Downton Abbey” (2019) and “Downton Abbey: A New Era” (2022).
What happened in ‘Downton Abbey: A New Era’?
The last installment began with Violet revealing that she had inherited a villa in the South of France some years prior, leaving the family to travel there and uncover the mystery behind the origins of the inheritance, according to IMDb.
While the family is away, Mary oversees the production of a silent film being shot at the estate, believing that the income will help Downton in the long run. The silent film is eventually turned into a “talkie.”
The film ends with Violet’s health declining and eventually dying.
New and returning faces
A majority of the original cast will be returning to reprise their roles in “Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale,” including the following according to IMDb.
- Michelle Dockery as Lady Mary Talbot
- Hugh Bonneville as Lord Grantham
- Elizabeth McGovern as Lady Cora Grantham
- Laura Carmichael as Lady Edith Pelham
- Harry Hadden-Paton as Bertie Hexham
- Allen Leech as Tom Branson
- Penelope Wilton as Isobel Merton
- Jim Carter as Mr. Charles Carson
- Phyllis Logan as Mrs Elsie Hughes Carson
- Brendan Coyle as Mr. John Bates
- Robert James-Collier as Mr. Thomas Barrow
- Joanne Froggatt as Mrs. Anna Bates
- Paul Giamatti as Harold Levinson
- Dominic West as Guy Dexter
- Sophie McShera as Mrs. Daisy Parker
In an Instagram reel announcing the third installment, Dockery described the reunion of cast members as “amazing and emotional.”
According to People, some new faces arriving at Downton include Joely Richardson, Alessandro Nivola, Simon Russell Beale and Arty Froushan.