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HARDtalk: Mike Newell - Director

05/12/2012

Mike Newell - Director

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Sarah Montague talks to Mike Newell about his new film adaptation of Great Expectations.

Sarah Montague talks to Mike Newell, known for directing Four Weddings and a Funeral and Donnie Brasco. His latest work is a film of the Charles Dickens classic Great Expectations.

HARDtalk speaks to one of the most successful film directors in the world, Mike Newell. Responsible for box office hits like Four Weddings and a Funeral, Donnie Brasco and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, he could make almost any film he wants. So why choose his latest movie - a remake of the classic Dickens novel Great Expectations. What more is there to add when there have already been so many adaptions?

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