Bask in the lavishness of these new Downton Abbey posters

Last Updated on August 2, 2021

Nearly four years after we bid farewell to Downton Abbey, the Crawley family is set to make a return, but this time, they'll be headed to the big-screen. The upcoming DOWNTON ABBEY film will find pretty much the entire original cast returning, including Hugh Bonneville as Robert Crawley, the 7th Earl of Grantham, Michelle Dockery as Lady Mary, Elizabeth McGovern as Cora Crawley, Countess of Gratham, Laura Carmichael as Lady Edith, Brendan Coyle as John Bates, Joanne Froggatt as Anna Bates, Allen Leech as Thomas Branson, Jim Carter as Charles Carson, Phyllis Logan as Elsie Hughes-Carson, Rob James-Collier as Thomas Barrow, Maggie Smith as Violet Crawley, the Dowager Countess of Grantham, and many more.

Focus Features have released four new character posters for the DOWNTON ABBEY film, and it seems that they've been expecting us. How ominous.

We still don't know all that much regarding the plot of the DOWNTON ABBEY film, but we do know that it will take place in the autumn of 1927, close to 18 months after the final episode of the TV series. Director Michael Engler did tease a few plot details, saying, "Life is settling into these new realities when this event happens at Downton that brings everybody together. The storyline has expanded the scale of it. It takes the things you love about Downton — the romance, the intrigue, the pageantry — and makes it bigger." Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes returned to pen the script for the film, which is no surprise considering that he wrote damn-near every episode of the TV series.

DOWNTON ABBEY will hit theaters on September 20, 2019.