Great Expectations is built around great appetites — for status, ... But the characters motivated by them seem to be written as thematic statements first, and people second.

Great Expectations II (1962) Posted: February 21, 2025 | Last updated: March 19, 2025. The film discusses the themes and characters of Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations," particularly focusing ...

EXCLUSIVE: Great Expectations has found its Young Pip. FX and the BBC‘s upcoming adaptation from Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight has cast up-and-comer Tom Sweet in the role. He will star as ...

FX, in partnership with the BBC, has made a dreary, dismal and not very Dickensian miniseries out of Charles Dickens’ “Great Expectations.” And while that seems to be in some measure the ...

Arriving on Sunday, 26 March at 9pm, the BBC’s new adaptation of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations is the latest project overseen by Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight. It’s also a star-studded ...

There’s a palpable darkness in Steven Knight’s adaptation of “Great Expectations.” It’s figurative, embedded in the characters and the storyline, but also literal, with dirt and rot ...

Great Expectations was published in 1861, but the story of Pip and the people who encourage then disappoint his expectations takes place over 30 or so years, beginning around 1810. Bashy says his ...

Some of the new adaptions of one of Charles Dicken's most beloved novels, Great Expectations, have been controversial, leading to a debate about how far new adaptations should stray from the original.

‘Great Expectations’ Off Broadway Review: Eddie Izzard Is a Pip – and All the Other Characters, Too. The actor-comedian proves a gifted storyteller in a Dickens adaptation by her brother ...

Eddie Izzard is furrowing her brow in mock confusion, eyes darting this way and that. Pip, the narrator of “Great Expectations,” whom Izzard plays along with every character in this solo spin ...

But this new small-screen adaptation of “Great Expectations,” which debuts Sunday on Hulu, was written by Steven Knight, who conceived the gritty “Peaky Blinders” and the violent ...