A DOWNTON Abbey movie has been on the cards ever since the popular period drama came to an end in 2015.

But now the show’s creator has revealed that he is considering bringing the show back to the small screen as well as the big screen.

3 Lord Fellowes is also eager to make a Downton film Credit: Getty Images

Nearly two years after the ITV series finished, JULIAN FELLOWES has confessed that he is planning a Downton prequel – with a whole new cast of stars.

He said: “I think it would be possible to do a prequel that was re-cast and do a sort of a love story so you went right back and had the young cast arriving in the show as footmen and Mrs Patmore being a kitchen maid.

3 The original cast, including Dame Maggie Smith, are not expected to participate Credit: ITV

“It would work if you told everyone’s story from 30 years before. You could do that with a different cast.”

Despite this, Julian is still eager for the long-rumoured Downton blockbuster to happen – but admitted that it will be a struggle to get the show’s original stars on board.

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3 Lord Fellowes is planning a return to Downton Manor Credit: Getty Images

Talking at the Hampstead Literary Festival on Saturday, he added: “I hope there is going to be a film. I would like there to be a film.

“There are many factors as like all the actors in Downton, we made them famous.

“Now they have all gone off and they are doing films, theatre or TV series so it will be quite difficult rounding them up.”

I have a feeling the cost of getting the old gang together would be returned in box office sales somehow.