Tom Hardy and ‘Peaky Blinders’ creator Steven Knight are adapting ‘Great Expectations’ for the BBC

By Sam Moore

 

Steven Knight and Tom Hardy (Picture: Getty)

 

Tom Hardy and Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight are teaming up to work on a new dramatic adaptation of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations for the BBC.

 

Dickens’ 1860 literary classic has been adapted for both the big and small screen on numerous occasions, with the last BBC adaptation being screened back in 2011 and Mike Newell’s subsequent 2012 film version starring Ralph Fiennes, Helena Bonham Carter and Jeremy Irvine.

 

Knight will write and executive produce the six-part BBC One/FX limited series, with Hardy on hand to executively produce. Ridley Scott, Dean Baker, David W Zucker and Kate Crowe will also hold executive producer credits.

 

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He'll be great as Joe Gargery, I'm sure.

Who the dickens will be playing Pip ?

Just now, phantomfiddler said:

Who the dickens will be playing Pip ?

I expect, that as the BBC are involved, Pip will most probably be a trans person, who is disabled & from the Ivory coast.

 

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And if you didn't spot it......

 

Knight will write and executive produce the six-part BBC One/FX limited series, with Hardy on hand to executively produce. Ridley Scott, Dean Baker, David W Zucker and Kate Crowe will also hold executive producer credits.

Really looking forward to that! ????????

 

On 5/15/2020 at 4:40 AM, faraday said:

He'll be great as Joe Gargery, I'm sure.

Do you mean Hardy?  He'll probably be the grown-up Pip.  Bonham as Miss Haversham.  While watching her in The Crown (as the 2nd Margaret) I realized I don't like watching her, maybe because I thought the first Margaret was smoking hot.  Or something to do with her Harry Potter character.