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NewsNewell in talks for Nicholls' Great Expectations
Director Mike Newell is in advanced talks to direct a new adaptation of Great Expectations, written by David Nicholls.
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NewsMike Newell to direct On Chesil Beach
Newell takes over from Sam Mendes on Ian McEwan adaptation.
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NewsEuropean premiere of Great Expectations to close BFI London Film Festival
Premiere to take place at Odeon Leicester Square on Oct 21, with Helena Bonham Carter, Ralph Fiennes and Mike Newell expected to attend the festival.
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NewsRay Winstone to star in BBC adaptation of Great Expectations
It is the second adaptation of Dickens’ classic novel currently in the works, with the feature version set to star Ralph Fiennes in same role.
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NewsBFI Film Fund backs projects by Newell, Potter, McDonagh
Films to receive recent production funding from the BFI include Mike Newell’s Great Expectations [pictured], Sally Potter’s Bomb and Martin McDonagh’s Seven Psychopaths.
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FeaturesElizabeth Karlsen and Stephen Woolley, Number 9 Films
Number 9 producers Stephen Woolley and Elizabeth Karlsen talk to Screen about Mike Newell’s adaptaiton of Great Expectations and the challenges of running an independent production company in the UK.
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CommentEnding all Expectations
Dickens purists should look away now - David Nicholls has revealed that he has written an alternative ending for his forthcoming adaptation of Great Expectations.
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FeaturesArmando Iannucci on ‘David Copperfield’: “it’s a celebration of what I feel Britain is”
Armando Iannucci’s used an inventive approach to David Copperfield, but in an age of status anxiety the book’s key theme needed no updating.
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FeaturesRalph Fiennes
It is more than a year since he locked his directorial debut Coriolanus, and Ralph Fiennes is keen for it to be in front of audiences, he tells Mike Goodridge
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