'Downton Abbey' Cast Members Reunite for ‘The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society’

While fans of Downton Abbey patiently await updates from creator/writer Julian Fellowes on his plans for a theatrical movie of the mega-hit Masterpiece historical drama, a new movie featuring four of its cast members has been filming in England and The Channel Islands. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, adapted from the international best-selling novel by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows, is somewhat of a mini-reunion for Downton cast members. The World War II period drama will star Lily James as free-spirited journalist Juliet Ashton and feature Jessica Brown Findlay as Elizabeth McKenna, Matthew Goode as Sidney Stark, and Penelope Wilton as Amelia Maugery.

The all British production has Four Weddings and a Funeral and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire's Mike Newell at the helm as director, and Don Roos (Marley & Me, The Opposite of Sex) and Thomas Bezucha (Big Eden, The Family Stone) adapting the novel for the big-screen. Filmed in England in London, Cornwall, and Devon, and in the Channel Islands at St. Peter Port Harbour, Guernsey, principal photography concluded in the U.K. in May with a release date projected for 2018.