Armando Iannucci has been working on an adaptation of Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield for some time, the project initially announced back in March 2015 by BBC Films.
Finally, some firm details about the movie have been confirmed: according to Variety, the Oscar-nominated actor Dev Patel will play the titular character who Dickens.
“[Iannucci] is a Dickens aficionado, so he wants it to be very authentic but it will have his own sensitivity,” Christine Langan of BBC Films said when initially announcing the project.
Meanwhile, Iannucci remains busy working on an upcoming science fiction series for HBO.