"[The film] opens with Pip as a boy [played as an young man by newcomer Douglas Booth, The Pillars of the Earth] on the marshes near his home, where he encounters the desperate escapee Magwitch [Winstone]. Pip is coerced into stealing a metal file to break Magwitch's chains, but the boy willingly snares a piece of meat pie to feed the famished man. So begins a classic coming-of-age story about innate kindness and learned indifference. Young Pip expects no more from life than to join his brother-in-law Joe at the blacksmith's forge. But fate intervenes when the neighboring rich eccentric Miss Havisham [Anderson] seeks Pip out as a playmate for her adopted daughter, Estella [Vanessa Kirby, The Hour]. This sets Pip on a course that sees him tested in many ways, not least in being thrown into a wish-fulfillment paradise for a young man, where he has the pleasures of London at his disposal and true love - and great expectations - in his future. Or so he thinks."
Director Brian Kirk's film has a runtime of 180 minutes. Further technical and supplementary details are still unknown.
Great Expectations is expected to street on April 3rd.