“Great Expectations” is the coming-of-age story of Pip, an orphan yearning for a better lot in life, until a twist of fate and the evil machinations of the mysterious and eccentric Miss Havisham reveal a dark world of possibilities. Under the great expectations placed on him, Pip will have to calculate the true cost of this new world and if it will really make him the man he wants to be. A critique of the class system, Dickens’s novel was published in 1861 after first publishing it in a series of weekly chapters beginning in December 1860.
Fionn Whitehead plays Pip, leading a cast with Olivia Colman as Miss Havisham, Shalom Brune-FranklinAshley Thomas, Johnny Harris, Hayley Squires, Owen McDonnell, Trystan Gravelle, Laurie Ogden, Rudi Dharmalingam, Tom Sweet, Chloe Lea, and Matt Berry.
Knight serves as a writer and also executive produces alongside Tom Hardy, Ridley ScottDean Baker, David W. Zucker and Kate Crowe.
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