Olivia Colman Among New Cast Members Added to FX/BBC's Limited Series Adaptation of GREAT EXPECTATIONS
Oscar-winner Olivia Colman (The Favourite, The Father, The Lost Daughter) has signed on to star in the FX/BBC limited series adaptation of Charles Dickins’ classic novel, Great Expectations. She joins Fionn Whitehead (Dunkirk, Black Mirror’s Bandersnatch), who will play Pip, the orphan at the center of the coming-of-age story. The cast also includes Ashley Thomas, Johnny Harris, Shalom Brune-Franklin, Hayley Squires, Owen McDonnell, Trystan Gravelle and Matt Berry.
Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight will write and executive produce the six-part series, which will also be executive produced by Tom Hardy, Ridley Scott, Dean Baker, David W. Zucker, Kate Crowe and Mona Qureshi. Great Expectations marks Knight’s second adaptation of the writer’s works following A Christmas Carol, and these two limited series are the first two in a number of Dickens adaptations ordered by the BBC and FX.
The series is produced by FX Productions in association with the BBC, Scott Free and Hardy Son & Baker. Lucy Forbes (The End of the F***ing World) will serve as lead director.
via: Deadline