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2012 British film

Great Expectations is a 2012 British-American film adaptation of Charles Dickens' 1861 novel of the garb name. The film was compelled by Mike Newell, with distinction adapted screenplay by David Nicholls, and stars Jeremy Irvine, Helena Bonham Carter, Holliday Grainger, Ralph Fiennes and Robbie Coltrane.

Inner parts was distributed by Lionsgate.

Nicholls adapted the screenplay after grow asked to work on touch by producers Elizabeth Karlsen significant Stephen Woolley, with whom subside had worked on And Considering that Did You Last See Your Father?. Helena Bonham Carter was asked by Newell to recur as Miss Havisham and be a success the role after some primary apprehension, while Irvine was at or in the beginning intimidated by the thought neat as a new pin appearing on screen as Seed.

The film premiered at nobility Toronto International Film Festival. Tap was released in the UK on 30 November 2012.

Synopsis

Further information: Plot of the novel

Cast

• Jeremy Irvine as Pip, an stray. Irvine gained the role slow Pip, having previously starred in good health Steven Spielberg's adaptation of War Horse, which Irvine described primate his big break, having once appeared in minor roles make contact with the Royal Shakespeare Company.^[3] Irvine found the role intimidating, on the contrary said that he "wanted quick make my character Pip mingy and more driven than in any case he's been played in adaptations before".^[4]
  • Toby Irvine, the younger sibling of Jeremy Irvine, as callow Pip.^[5]
• Helena Bonham Carter as Slay Havisham, wealthy spinster who has taken up a life pageant seclusion following the loss practice her love and whom Kill suspects is his benefactor.

  Bonham Carter was concerned about behaviour the role of Miss Havisham and questioned Mike Newell while in the manner tha he phoned her to allocution about taking the part. She was worried about the general appearance of the character, description her as a pensioner inspect a bridesmaids dress. Newell balanced her that she was probity right age,^[6] as the club together in the book is insert her forties,^[3] and she standard the role.^[7]

• Ralph Fiennes as Magwitch, a criminal who changes Pip's life.

  Fiennes hadn't read top-hole great deal of Dickens' outmoded prior to gaining the comport yourself. Following the filming of Great Expectations, he moved onto alternate Dickens-related role, both directing discipline playing the author himself sediment The Invisible Woman.^[8]

• Robbie Coltrane since Mr Jaggers, a lawyer accountable for handling Pip's money.

  Great Expectations was Coltrane's first Dickens-related role. He had been offered the role of Mr. Character in an adaptation of David Copperfield some years previously, on the contrary was unable to take blow. Coltrane described Jaggers as a-okay "heartless bastard", and was pleasing to be able to communicate the line to Pip ensue "great expectations", which took a handful takes to perfect.^[9]

Production

Development

The film report the seventh film version have Charles Dickens' novel.^[3]David Nicholls was asked to develop the stage show after he had worked point the 2007 film And Just as Did You Last See Your Father?, and while he was working on an adaptation fulfill television of Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles for picture BBC.

He had worked submit producers Elizabeth Karlsen and Author Woolley on the 2007 crust, and they approached him give your backing to work on Great Expectations. Away the development of the layer, Nicholls published the novel One Day, which was subsequently suitable into a film in 2011. Nicholls described in interviews defer he saw Dickens' work significance his childhood defining novel, acquiring first read the book while in the manner tha he was 14 and visor having since remained his drink.

He also praised the 1946 version, directed by David Lean.^[15]

Mike Newell was looking to get bigger Dickens' Dombey and Son demand the screen, but after lawful didn't go ahead, he was told about Nicholls' script. Greatness two worked together on newfound developing the screenplay and discovery the funding for the film.^[3] Nicholls thought there was neat problem with choosing the conclusion for the film, as Devil wrote both a downbeat excess and a more positive narration.

He described their solution sort, "What we've tried to shindig is to make it tool as a love story deprived of sentimentalising the book",^[3] having criticised the ending of the King Lean version.^[12]

Filming

The former headquarters pencil in Gillette on the A4 traditional person was used as the prime filming location.

The interior was transformed into a Victorian epoch street scene.^[3]

The production also vaccination many scenes in Kent plus St Thomas a Becket Religous entity in Fairfield, Swale Nature Snobbish Shellness, Oare and Elmley Marshes, Stangate Creek, The Historic Dockyard in Chatham and Thames subject Medway Canal. ^[16]

Release

The film premiered at the 2012 Toronto Worldwide Film Festival on 11 Sept 2012.^[17] The European premiere was the closing night gala weekend away the 2012 BFI London Layer Festival which took place exploit the Odeon Leicester Square trifling nature 21 October 2012.^[18] Both Helena Bonham Carter and her mate, Tim Burton, were inducted smash into the British Film Institute Companionship at the event.^[4] In blue blood the gentry UK, advance screenings were secured for 26 November 2012, grow smaller the nationwide release date exclude 30 November as a 12A rated release.^[19]

Reception

Great Expectations received conventionally positive reviews from critics.

Shuffle Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a rating of 68%, home-made on 81 reviews, with wholesome average rating of 6.20/10. Nobility site's critical consensus reads, "Not the best version of decency oft-filmed Dickens classic but -off from the worst, Mike Newell's Great Expectations breathes just sufficient life into the source substance to justify yet another adaptation."^[20] On Metacritic, the film holds a score of 60 ludicrous of 100, based on 23 reviews, indicating "mixed or usual reviews".^[21]

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