litlover12

msantimacassar and I have just been discussing how difficult it is to keep track of the not one but two Great Expectations adaptations that are in the works. (While it's wonderful that so many people want to celebrate Dickens's bicentennial next year, some of them apparently forgot that he wrote anything else! Although I hear there's also going to be an Edwin Drood miniseries.)

For those of you who are interested, we're tracking developments over at Dickensblog. But here's the Cliffs Notes version:

Feature film:

Pip -- Jeremy Irvine
Estella -- Holliday Grainger
Miss Havisham -- Helena Bonham Carter
Magwitch -- Ralph Fiennes

Filming will start in October, and the film will be released sometime in 2012.

BBC miniseries:

Pip -- Douglas Booth
Magwitch -- Ray WInstone

Gillian Anderson is in talks for Miss Havisham. Filming starts in July, and the miniseries will air around Christmas on BBC One, and then come to PBS in spring 2012.