The new version of the Charles Dickens' classic from the creator of Peaky Blinders featured sex, violence and bad language.
Dickens gets a gritty makeover and the Roy family returns
Peaky Blinders creator Stephen Knight has turned his attention to Charles Dickens' Great Expectations. Unfamiliar with the story? Meet the actors playing its main characters.
This updated re-imagining of Great Expectations is aided and abetted by Olivia Colman, Fionn Whitehead, and Ashley Thomas on top form.
Peaky Blinders' Steven Knight has adapted the Charles Dickens classic for the BBC.
The cast of the BBC drama also includes Fionn Whitehead, Johnny Harris and Hayley Squires.
FX and the BBC have set the cast for their adaptation of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations — with Olivia Colman at the top of the call sheet. The Oscar and Emmy winner (The Favourite, The Crown) will play Miss Havisham in the six-part limited series. Fionn Whitehead (Dunkirk, Black Mirror: Bandersnatch) will play Pip; the […]