Monday 17 September 2012

Great Expectations gets a trailer

With a great British cast, the Charles Dickens' classic gets a new cinema version. That out of the way, Lionsgate has sent over a new trailer for the film.

The only comment I can make is that I think Helena Bonham Carter has been miss-cast as Miss Havisham as I think of her, mainly from other film versions, as a lot older. This, I know is in contradiction to how old Dickens describers her.

Young orphan Pip is given a chance to rise from his humble beginnings thanks to a mysterious benefactor. Moving through London’s class ridden world as a gentleman, Pip uses his new found position to pursue the beautiful Estella; a spoilt heiress he’s loved since childhood. Yet the shocking truth behind his great fortune will have devastating consequences for everything he holds dear.

Starring an award-winning cast, this British tour de force is directed by the BAFTA winning director of Four Weddings and A Funeral and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Mike Newell, and has been written for the big screen by David Nicholls, the acclaimed writer of the global best seller One Day. This adaptation of Dickens’ finest novel is produced by award winning partners at Number 9 Films, Elizabeth Karlsen and Stephen Woolley (Made in Dagenham, How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, The Crying Game).The film has been financed by BBC Films, the BFI Film Fund, Lipsync Productions, Unison Films and Hart/ Lunsford Pictures.
GREAT EXPECTATIONS will be released in cinemas across the UK November 30, 2012

No comments:

Post a Comment