1:1946 film directed by David Lean. 2: 2011 film with Helena Bonham Carter and Ralph Fiennes as Miss Havisham and Magwitch 3: 1989 series with Anthony Hopkins and Jean Simmons as Magwitch and Miss Havisham. Simmons played young Estella in the Lean version. 4: 1999 series with Charlotte Rampling as Miss Havisham. The absolute worst adaptation was the Americanized movie from 1998 set in a contemporary setting.
Bitterly disppointing but not surprising a black actress has been given the role of Estella.
She looks like an older Queen Anne from her role in “The Favorite.”
Gillian Anderson was an AWFUL Miss Havisham, playing the part in a wispy manner. She couldn’t even bring herself to wear only one shoe, as is essential and required of the character.
How woke will it be? Will Magwitch be black? Will Herbert Pocket be gay? Estella a lesbian?
Dickens' stories tend to be good, but he's too wordy. The Victorians tended to be, but, on top of all that, he got paid by the world.
I don't think Dickens is nearly as good as Jane Austen. Or Victor Hugo, Leo Tolstoy, or Fyodor Dostoevsky. Some outstanding flicks, serialized for TV, have been made of Jane Austen's and Tolstoy's tales, but I've never seen a good one of Hugo's or Dostoevsky's.
Her cheek implants are too high for this role.