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"Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire director Mike Newell has signed to helm a film adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic Great Expectations. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the project will be part of a celebration of Dickens&amp;#039;s bicentenary dubbed &amp;#039;Dickens 2012&amp;#039;, co-ordinated by the Charles Dickens Museum, Film London and The Dickens Fellowship. &amp;quot;Dickens&amp;#039;s stories have spawned films, plays, television dramas and musicals and after Shakespeare, no other writer matches Dickens in terms of global cultural influence,&amp;quot; said Film London&amp;#039;s Adrian Wooton. Director David Lean adapted Great Expectations for an Oscar-winning 1940s feature. Ethan Hawke and Gwyneth Paltrow starred in a 1998 screen adaptation directed by Alfonso Cuaron. Newell&amp;#039;s previous films also include Donnie Brasco, Four Weddings and a Funeral and Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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