Here’s a first look at Helena Bonham Carter as Miss Havisham, the witchy central character in Great Expectations, Mike Newell’s adaptation of Charles Dickens’ novel. Miss Havisham is an iconic character over here in Britain: an embittered spinster who sits in her mouldering mansion still wearing the wedding dress she wore when she was jilted at the altar; she has trained her adopted daughter Estella to break men’s hearts just as her heart was broken.這是海倫娜·伯翰·卡特飾演郝薇香小姐的造型。這個角色是導演邁克·內威爾改編自狄更斯小說《遠大前程》的電影中詭異的核心人物。郝薇香小姐是在英國非常標志性的人物：一個坐在自己破落的大宅里哀怨的老處女，依然穿著她在婚禮時被拋棄在圣壇前時的婚紗。她訓練她的養女誒斯特拉去傷害男人心，就像她的心被傷的程度一樣。

Bonham Carter co-stars opposite Ralph Fiennes as escaped convict Magwitch. Producer Stephen Woolley tells me the Oscar nominee is playing Miss Havisham at the same age she is in Dickens novel — previous incarnations by Charlotte Rampling, Anne Bancroft and, most memorably, Martita Hunt in David Lean’s version played her much older. 與伯翰·卡特搭檔對手戲飾演罪惡的逃婚者Magwitch的是拉爾夫·費因斯。制片人Stephen Woolley提到說這位奧斯卡提名候選人在戲中扮演的狄更斯小說中的郝薇香小姐正好于她的實際年齡相符。之前也扮演過這個角色的夏洛特·蘭普林，安妮·班克羅夫特以及最令人難忘的在大衛·里恩版本里的Martita Hunt都把這個角色扮老了。

New York-based Unison Films is searching for a U.S. deal for the film, which Lionsgate UK will release in fall 2012. Hanway Films, which is handling all other territories, will show footage in Berlin. Newell will finish shooting the BBC Films-backed project by Christmas. Robbie Coltrane, Sally Hawkins and David Walliams co-star, with Jeremy Irvine  as Pip, the young hero of the story.這部電影還在尋找美國的經營方，獅門影業會在2012年的秋天在英國上映這部電影，管理其他地區的Hanway電影公司會將電影在柏林首先試映。導演Newell會在圣誕節前拍攝完成跟BBC電影項目。羅彼·考特拉尼，莎莉·霍金斯，大衛·威廉姆斯以及杰瑞米·艾文分別參演此片。