The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society is heading to the States later this summer. Inspired by the New York Times bestseller of the same name, the film is set on Guernsey, a small island in the English Channel, following its German occupation during World War II, and will center around Lily James's character, a "free-spirited" writer named Juliet Ashton.
It will drop on Netflix on August 10.
Something of a mini Downton Abbey reunion, the Studio Canal project stars not only James, who played Lady Rose MacClare on the PBS series, and Matthew Goode, who portrayed Henry Talbot, but also Jessica Brown Findlay, who played Lady Sybil Branson née Crawley, and Penelope Wilton who played Isobel Crawley in all six seasons of the Masterpiece show.
Other actors involved in the movie include Glen Powell (Hidden Figures), Michiel Huisman (Game of Thrones), and Tom Courtenay (45 Years).
Watch the sneak peek of the film above.
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