A brand new teaser trailer has been released for the FX/BBC limited series adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic novel great expectations. In the clip, we get a sneak peek at the Oscar winner Olivia Colmann like Miss Havisham, and boy, is she a sight! She is joined in the series by Fionn Whitehead like Pip and Tom Dolce as young Pip.
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“great expectations is the coming-of-age story of Pip, an orphan who wants so much more in life until a twist of fate introduces him to the mysterious and eccentric Miss Havisham and Estella (Shalom Brune-Franklin), showing him a dark world of possibilities. Given the great expectations placed on him, Pip will have to calculate the cost of this new world and if it will make him truly the man he wishes to be.
The six parts also play Ashley Thomas (Top Boy, the Ipcress file), Johnny Harris (A Christmas Carol, The Salisbury Poisonings), Hayley Squires (Call the midwife, the Essex snake), Owen McDonnell (Eve killing, death in paradise), Laurie Ogden (The Color Room, the show must go online), Matt Berry (The IT crowd, snuffbox), Trystan Gravelle (The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Baptiste), AND Rudi Dharmalingam (The division, our girl).
Peaky Blinders Creator Stefano Cavaliere is directing the series, as he is an avowed Dickens fan who previously adapted A Christmas carol for BBC and FX. He is executive producer great expectations alongside previous collaborators Tom Hardy, Ridley Scott, Dean Baker, David W. Zucker, Kate Crowe and Tommy Bulfin. Brady Hood and Samira Radsi are directors.
great expectations is produced by FX Productions in association with the BBC, Scott Free and Hardy Son & Baker.
The limited series will air in the spring on BBC One and iPlayer and will be streamed on Hulu in the US. Internationally, it will be available to stream on Star+ in Latin America and on Disney+ under the Star banner at a later date.
Check out the teaser below and let us know what you think.
by : Deadline
by Jessica Fisher
Source: Geek Tyrant

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