Olivia Colman looks unrecognizable with white hair and yellow teeth in the first trailer for the upcoming adaptation of BBC’s Great Expectations.
The 49-year-old actress, who plays Miss Havisham in the Charles Dickens classic, welcomes a young Pip (Tom Sweet) to Satis House for the first time in the footage.
She tells the would-be knight, later played by Fionn Whitehead, “Let me see…what a valuable creature we caught in the river.”
Olivia’s costume also includes an elaborate dead flower headdress and veil, along with a collection of silver jewelry and a dirty wedding dress.
Produced by FX Productions in association with the BBC, Scott Free and Hardy Son & Baker, Great Expectations is the coming-of-age story of Pip, an orphan who longs for so much more in life.
Who is that? Olivia Colman looks unrecognizable with white hair and yellow teeth in the first trailer for the upcoming adaptation of the BBC’s Great Expectations.
A twist of fate soon introduces him to the mysterious and eccentric Miss Havisham and Estella (Shalom Brune-Franklin), showing him a dark world of possibilities.
Under the great expectations placed on him, Pip will have to calculate the cost of this new world and if it will really make him the man he wants to be.
Great Expectations will also star Ashley Thomas, Johnny Harris, Hayley Squires, Owen McDonnell, Laurie Ogden, Matt Berry, Trystan Gravelle, and Rudi Dharmalingam.
Steven Knight has written and executive produced Great Expectations alongside Tom Hardy, Ridley Scott, Dean Baker, David W. Zucker, Kate Crowe and Tommy Bulfin for the BBC, the team behind FX’s A Christmas Carol, with Brady Hood. and Samira Radsi as directors.
Great Expectations is the second Dickens adaptation written by Steven, following the successful limited series A Christmas Carol.
Author Charles first published the work in a series of weekly chapters beginning in December 1860, before it was subsequently published as a novel.
His famous novel follows the story of Pip, who lives with his sister, Mrs. Joe Gargery, and her husband, Joe the blacksmith.
The embittered Miss Havisham arranges a meeting between young Pip and Estella in order to make him fall in love with her so that he can break her heart.
New role: The 49-year-old actress, who plays Miss Havisham in the Charles Dickens classic, welcomes a young Pip to Satis House for the first time on film.
Wow! Olivia’s costume also includes an elaborate dead flower headdress and veil, along with a collection of silver jewelry and a dirty wedding dress.
Line of Duty actress Shalom Brune-Franklin, 28, plays the aloof and enigmatic Estella, who becomes Pip’s obsession.
Steven adapted Dickens’s A Christmas Carol for the BBC in 2019, starring Guy Pearce as Scrooge.
There have been many adaptations of the classic novel over the years, both on the big and small screen.
War and Peace actress Tuppence Middleton, 35, played the character of a younger woman in the 2016 BBC serialization Dickensian.
In character: She tells the would-be knight, later played by Fionn Whitehead, “Let me see you… what a valuable creature we caught in the river.”
Talented: Great Expectations is the coming-of-age story of Pip, an orphan who longs for so much more in life (Tom Sweet is portrayed as a young Pip).
Helena Bonham Carter, 56, played Miss Havisham in Mike Newell’s 2012 film adaptation, co-starring Jeremy Irvine as Pip and Ralph Fiennes as Abel Magwitch.
Gillian Anderon, 54, was a rather more glamorous and youthful incarnation of the previous year’s character in a BBC miniseries starring Douglas Booth and Vanessa Kirby.
In 1999, 77-year-old Charlotte Rampling played the role opposite Ioan Gruffudd’s Pip, while Anne Bancroft played a modernized version of the character in Alfonso Cuarón’s 1998 film version, starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Ethan Hawke.
Earlier versions include Jean Simmons’s portrayal in a 1989 miniseries, having previously played Estella in David Lean’s 1946 film opposite Martita Hunt as Miss Havisham.
Miss Marple actress Joan Hickson played the role in 1981, while Margaret Leighton took over the role in 1974.
One of the first screen portrayals of Miss Havisham was Florence Reed in the 1934 film.
Miss Havisham is usually presented as an older woman, but is in her late 30s at the start of Dickens’s novel.
Again? The broadcaster had previously produced a titled three-part drama of the same name which was written by Sarah Phelps in 2011 (Gillian Anderson as Miss Havisham).