The second poster has arrived for Great Expectations starring Jeremy Irvine, Holliday Grainger, Ralph Fiennes and Helena Bonham Carter. Mike Newell directs the romantic drama adventure scripted by David Nicholls based on the Charles Dickens novel. Also in the cast are Jason Flemyng, Robbie Coltrane, Ewen Bremner, Sally Hawkins, David Walliams, Sophie Rundle, Toby Irvine, Helena Barlow, David Walliams, Bernice Stegers, Tim Freeman, Alan Rushton, Sheila Simpson, Bebe Cave, Robert Burton and Richard James. The film opened in limited theaters this weekend (November 8th) and is rated PG-13 for some violence including disturbing images. The story follows a humble orphan who is raised to gentleman status thanks to the aid of an unknown benefactor.
- 11/9/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Made in 1946 in a peak period for British cinema that remains unmatched, Great Expectations is the masterpiece David Lean made as (his biographer Kevin Brownlow suggests) a way of stepping up and away from his years as Noël Coward's collaborator. It is a succession of magnificently achieved scenes from Dickens, shot in stylised, Cruickshank-influenced black and white with a cast that has made an indelible stamp on several generations.
This new adaptation, scripted by David Nicholls and directed by Mike Newell, doesn't attempt to imitate Lean, something it announces by shooting the opening encounter in the graveyard on the gloomy marshes between the convict Magwitch (Ralph Fiennes) and the young Pip in broad, blue-sky daylight. The character are more lifesize than conventionally Dickensian: wisely, Helen Bonham Carter and Robbie Coltrane don't attempt to compete with Martita Hunt's Miss Havisham and Francis L Sullivan's Jaggers.
Newell and Nicholls have...
This new adaptation, scripted by David Nicholls and directed by Mike Newell, doesn't attempt to imitate Lean, something it announces by shooting the opening encounter in the graveyard on the gloomy marshes between the convict Magwitch (Ralph Fiennes) and the young Pip in broad, blue-sky daylight. The character are more lifesize than conventionally Dickensian: wisely, Helen Bonham Carter and Robbie Coltrane don't attempt to compete with Martita Hunt's Miss Havisham and Francis L Sullivan's Jaggers.
Newell and Nicholls have...
- 12/2/2012
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
We finally get our first look at Holliday Grainger, one of Screenterrier's favourite British rising stars, as Estella, alongside Jeremy Irvine as Pip.
The new film adaptation of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations, directed by Mike Newell, is set to premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September. It was over a year ago that Screenterrier reported on the casting of Holliday Grainger as Estella, the love interest and emotional torturer of the orphan Pip, who is played by young War Horse star Jeremy Irvine.
Holly (represented by Troika) stars as Lucrezia Borgia in Neil Jordan’s TV series The Borgias. She has also had recent roles in Cary Fukunaga’s Jane Eyre and in Bel Ami opposite Robert Pattinson.
Producer Elizabeth Karlsen of Number 9 Films commented "She is just an incredibly fine actor and has the beauty that is needed for Estella as well as an extraordinary technical ability.
The new film adaptation of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations, directed by Mike Newell, is set to premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September. It was over a year ago that Screenterrier reported on the casting of Holliday Grainger as Estella, the love interest and emotional torturer of the orphan Pip, who is played by young War Horse star Jeremy Irvine.
Holly (represented by Troika) stars as Lucrezia Borgia in Neil Jordan’s TV series The Borgias. She has also had recent roles in Cary Fukunaga’s Jane Eyre and in Bel Ami opposite Robert Pattinson.
Producer Elizabeth Karlsen of Number 9 Films commented "She is just an incredibly fine actor and has the beauty that is needed for Estella as well as an extraordinary technical ability.
- 8/3/2012
- by noreply@blogger.com (ScreenTerrier)
- ScreenTerrier
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