Dev Patel is acting in everything these days.

Hot on the heels of the recently released trailer for The Green Knight, Searchlight Pictures has released another Patel film, The Personal History of David Copperfield.

The Personal History of David Copperfield is a very loose adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel, David Copperfield. 

Before you shut your laptop and recoil in horror as the memories of Dickens and high school English start flooding in, give it a chance.

This via IndieWire:

In rewriting Dickens’ 1849 tome about the coming of age of a man from youth to adulthood, from impoverished orphan to decorated Victorian author, [writer/director Armando] Iannucci puts a quirky spin on the kind of satire he developed in blistering, politically charged series “The Thick of It” and “Veep,” and films such as “In the Loop” and “The Death of Stalin.”

In Iannucci country, no one is left unscathed and everyone — wokeness and politically correct allegiance be damned — is a potential comic slaughter. “With ‘David Copperfield,’ he applies that same skill to literature, transforming Dickens’ sprawling first-person opus into a blithe mid-century romp.

The trailer had me laughing out loud in the office:

Not your high school Dickens at all.

The Personal History of David Copperfield will be in cinemas in the United States on May 8, 2020, and will make its way here shortly thereafter.

[source:indiewire]