First look clip of Olivia Colman's Miss Havisham in BBC's new Great Expectations adaptation
Olivia Colman and Fionn Whitehead feature in a first-look clip from Great Expectations, which is being adapted for the BBC and FX by Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight.
The latest TV series inspired by Charles Dickens' 1861 novel of the same name, Knight's drama sees Colman in the role of Miss Havisham, with Dunkirk and Emily's Whitehead as Pip.
Like the source material, this coming-of-age story follows orphan Pip (whose younger version is played by Tom Sweet) as he tries to lift himself out of poverty and morph himself into a gentleman.
In a first-look clip from the series, Pip is taken in by The Crown star's eccentric Miss Havisham and her adopted daughter Estella (Shalom Brune-Franklin).
"What a prize creature we have fished from the river," Colman's character says in the trailer as an ominous score plays on.
Havisham and Estella are to show Pip a dark array of possibilities to get what he wants, preparing him to be the man he aspires to be.
The cast of Great Expectations also includes the likes of Top Boy star Ashley Thomas, plus What We Do in the Shadows' Matt Berry, The Essex Serpent's Hayley Squires and Trystan Gravelle, who recently appeared in Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.
They will be joined by Death in Paradise's Owen McDonnell, The Split's Rudi Dharmalingam, The Colour Room's Laurie Ogden and Johnny Harris, who appeared in Knight's previous version of A Christmas Carol for the BBC.
The show will also reunite Knight with one of his frequent collaborators, Tom Hardy. Hardy, Ridley Scott and others are among the team of executive producers for Great Expectations.
A release date is yet to be set for the adaptation, which has been filming in the south of England.
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