Downton Abbey movie will pick up 18 months after the TV series

Entertainment Weekly

“Life is settling into these new realities when this event happens at Downton that brings everybody together,” teases the movie's director, Michael Engler. “The story line has expanded the scale of it. It takes the things you love about Downton – the romance, the intrigue, the pageantry – and makes it bigger.” ALSO: Lily James' career was too busy for the Downton movie.