Yahoo News Peaky Blinders creator updates on Tom Hardy's Christmas Carol
It's been a while since the BBC announced its new television adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic A Christmas Carol (yep, you thought you were free of the C word for the next nine months), so it's about time for an update.
The new version is to be executive produced by Venom star Tom Hardy, who will also star in an unrevealed yet 'pivotal' role, and Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight.
It is the latter who has spoken to Collider about the project, revealing when filming will hopefully start, and when we might see it on screen.
"It’s gonna be three one-hours," he said, "it’s largely done in terms of the script. We’re planning to shoot this year and hopefully get it on the screen for Christmas… It’s BBC plus an American element which has not been announced yet."
That American element could be a distributor or a co-finance thing, rather than an American twist on the story. We hope.
Beyond that, Knight also has plans to do even more Dickens, stating: “What I’m planning to do is adapt five Dickens books - A Christmas Carol plus four novels - and do it over a period of six or seven years and have a repertory of actors.
"I think we’ll get the best actors in the world, hopefully, to take part because the Dickens characters are so great and just do like [David] Copperfield and Oliver Twist and Great Expectations and do them in a modern way.
"Not really in a Taboo way, but sort of like that."
Speaking of Taboo, Knight recently revealed that filming for series two of that show won't begin until the end of this year at the earliest, so maybe this is the reason why.
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