The latest adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic tale of the orphan Pip, set in the nineteenth century, is set to have its European premiere as the closing film at the London Film Festival in October.
Helena Bonham Carter, Ralph Fiennes, Jeremy Irvine, Robbie Coltrane and David Walliams feature in the film, which is directed by BAFTA-winning director Mike Newell.
Bonham Carter stars as the famous spinster, Miss Havisham, while Irvine – who played the lead character in the recent adaptation of War Horse – will play Pip as an adult. Fiennes stars as Magwitch.
David Nicholls, writer of the bestselling novel One Day, has adapted the script.
Festival Director Clare Stewart said of the choice: “Visually ravishing and rippling with immediacy, this new adaptation of the classic novel, directed by Mike Newell provides a fitting conclusion to both the 56th BFI London Film Festival and London’s bicentenary celebrations of the life and work of Charles Dickens."
Newell, who has also directed Four Weddings and a Funeral and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, said it was a 'great honour' to have the film chosen to close the London Film Festival.
"I've tried to make a film that is true to the theatrical vividness, energetic characters and high colour that he is loved for, while mining the deep seams of emotional cruelty and madness that underlie one of Dickens' darkest-shadowed stories," he said.
Earlier this month it was announced that Tim Burton's new film Frankenweenie would open the festival.
The premiere will take place in Leicester Square in London on Sunday 21 October and will be released in cinemas from November 30.
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