The series is the latest international co-production for Sundance Now. Rebecca Johnson ( Honeytrap, Top Girl) is the director. Park Films co-founder Ivan Kavanagh ( Son, The Canal) is the series writer creator, and is co-writing alongside Sally Tatchell ( The Bay, London Kills, Waterloo Road) and Rachel Anthony ( Lucky Man, Mistresses, Ransom). Notably, Your Honor and Tehran producer Alon Aranya is executive producer for Paper Plane, alongside Leech, AnneMarie Naughton ( The Canal, The Fading Light) and Ana Habajec ( Son, Midsummer Fire) for Park Films, Patrick Irwin ( The Fall) for Mrs Scarlett and the Duke co-producer 87 Films and Adam Barth and Lucy Roberts for Eccho Rights.
The project was originally developed by Park Films and Screen Ireland. European distributor Eccho, recently acquired by Night Train Media, will handle international distribution in all other territories and is a co-producer. and Canada rights and Virgin Media takes Ireland. Ireland’s Park Films, the U.S.’s Paper Plane Productions and the UK’s 87 Films are attached. Leech ( Downton Abbey, Bohemian Rhapsody) plays David Burke, a detective helping with her case, but whose struggles with his sexuality are a constant burden. Mullen will star as reporter Lisa Wallace, working in the face of prejudice and police incompetence to investigate the mysterious murder of her own mother nearly 20 years earlier. Hiring and firing and being the big bad boss.AMC Networks' Sundance Now Expands 2023 Slate With Two New Series But we saw her embrace her daughter that she had out of wedlock, and she found her own husband in Bertie Hexham (Harry Hadden-Paton).īut Laura Carmichael, when I asked what she’d like to see happen for Lady Edith now that she’s happy in her life, shared that she missed “boss” Edith: “I want to see more boss Edith. Throughout most of the series, Lady Edith was a character who was constantly mocked by her sister, Lady Mary, and was never one to finally get what she wanted.
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The movie also continues a great storyline: Happiness for Lady Edith. Go make some money for our company,'” Leech joked, and it is a great example of how much the cast knows their characters and their reactions to things. “I think it’s, for Tom, he’s like ‘Nostalgia doesn’t matter, profit does. Jokingly, I asked Leech what Tom was thinking when his best friend wasn’t there. The movie kicks off with Branson’s wedding to Lucy (Tuppence Middleton), but at the wedding, his best friend and business partner, Henry Talbot (Matthew Goode), is nowhere to be found. The last we saw of Tom Branson, he had found a new love after spending years missing his wife Lady Sybil. What’s happening with Tom and Lady Edith? With so many characters to care about, it might seem hard for one movie to give us updates on everyone we loved through the show’s six-season run on PBS, and yet still, we got to see plenty of characters we know and care for in A New Era. And talking with stars Allen Leech (who plays Tom Branson) and Laura Carmichael (who plays Lady Edith Hexham), it’s clear that the two love coming back to their roles in the larger Downton Abbey universe. So with a movie like Downton Abbey: A New Era, it is a fun and fascinating look into the journey that these characters have been on for six seasons and now two movies. For someone like me, the show has been with me through college all the way to my 30s, now, where I still care about the Crawley family and the lives of characters like Lady Mary, Lady Edith, Tom Branson, and all of their partners. Downton Abbey has been in our hearts since the fall of 2010.
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