Drama

'Peaky Blinders' Creator to Adapt 'Great Expectations'

Lacy Baugher Milas

20 May 2020 — 2 min read

Following the success of his dark take on Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol last year, Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight will put a fresh spin on the author's Great Expectations in a new six-part version for BBC One and American cable network FX.

This is definitely another one of those instances where I'm not 100% sure we need another version of this story - there have been ~~many, many~~ multiple versions of Great Expectations made for both the big and small screens, including a recent 2012 Masterpiece version starring Gillian Anderson and a 2013 film from Mike Newell which featured Ralph Fiennes and Helena Bonham Carter. But, ready or not, here it comes, I guess.

To be fair, Knight is at least an interesting choice to lead the project. His A Christmas Carol is much more holiday horror than Yuletide fluff, and that is an overall vibe that I think works very well for this story. Which, after all, features a woman who wears a bedraggled wedding dress around all day and has cake rotting in her dilapidated house. Bring the horror, I say.

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