Great Expectations – Trailer | BBC

"This is who I am now. This is who I have to be..." #GreatExpectations coming to #iPlayer this spring

[lw]

You can't beat the 1946 David Lean version. It even won an Oscar for its cinematography.

[havaguday]

Has it been updated for 'modern audiences'?

[FionaMu]

I swear there have been like 20 Great Expectations movies or tv shows since I left school in 2005.

[nikirk]

why does this production need to have black people inserted and if we are going down that road why no chinese banglas or other asians???>

[seansabhaois]

Another great British Classic, twisted by the BBC, to fit it's agenda and a so called modern narrative.
Kudos to 'Stephen Knight CBE' 😐👌
Yeah, this mish-mash of an idea, seems to reflect what the American target market, thinks Victorian England was all about.

[patcomerford]

This is a most horrific bastardisation of a great literary classic. The BBC killed the soul of Dickens in this atrocity. 👎👎😭😭👎👎

[willrichardson]

Why would the BBC make a version of this that doesn’t look as good as the Douglas Booth version from 10 or so years ago? Why make it so soon after?

[orwellknew]

Getting stinking reviews
Go woke
Go broke

[tomfullery]

Why aren't there any Hispanic or Native American actors in this woke trash rewrite of a classic novel?

[oiooi]

Why must we pay a licence fee to be repeatedly lectured on identity politics and see our country slagged off in every woke retelling of classic literature.

[msmushroom]

The original Great Expectations is a million miles away from this 2023 woke version.!

[torduck]

I can imagine the conversations between the program managers in one of their endless meetings.

“What about some new and original content?”

“Or… what about the 95th reboot of Great Expectations. Also, let’s give the license payers a real treat and plan another Christmas Carol reboot later in the year!”

“Genius! Let’s green light this idea”

“Wow, we really earned our £100, 000 bonus for creativity and ingenuity this year”

[Tom]

I read the book but I will probably not watch the film because I prefer to use my imagination when reading stories and this film will ruin the images conjured up by my own mind. Seeing this has frankly ruined my day. Upon clicking this video, I had great expectations (no pun intended) but I was sorely disappointed. Do better!

[Bungle-UK]

BBC diversity checklist…..
Token black actors playing characters that wouldn’t have been black in real life ✅

[johnmulvey]

Try hard trendy awfulness.
And what makes young actors thing that low mumbling speech is realistic?

[matt]

Didn't you guys make this already 10 years ago? Sure this new version will be great though

[tarekihaddaden]

I must say, I have great expectations for this.

[kosalati]

Just one question : who plays Estella ? I have a doubt ...

[desolateones]

This can't be taken seriously, it's sacrilidge to destroy such great work with this gross adaption...

[ajrocksx]

I had to read this book in school for literature. I hated it.