“‘Star Wars’ Screenwriter Creates ‘Downton Abbey’/’Iron Man’ Mashup”

Here’s something you can be thankful for on this Thanksgiving day: That screenwriter Gary Whitta is infused both with creativity and a great sense of humor. From THR:

Apparently, writing a Star Wars movie for Gareth Edwards isn’t enough to satisfy screenwriter Gary Whitta’s iconoclastic needs. How else to explain the fact that he’s not only written, but released online, a crossover between Marvel’s Iron Man and British period drama Downton Abbey?

Downton Abbey: The Stark Ascendancy started life as a joke tweet last week, with Whitta making the mistake of telling Twitter followers that he’d post pages if enough people retweeted his original message. Things… kind of snowballed from there.

Which led to this:

The screenplay is available to download here.

For the rest of the THR article, go here.