GREAT EXPECTATIONS

Great Expectations is a 2012 British film adaptation of Charles Dickens' directed by Mike Newell, and stars Jeremy Irvine, Helena Bonham Carter, Holliday Grainger, Ralph Fiennes and Robbie Coltrane.

The premiere of the film closed the BFI London Film Festival in 2012, It was released in the UK on 30 November 2012.

The former headquarters of Gillette on the A4 road was used as the main filming location. The interior was transformed into a Victorian era street scene.

The production also shot many scenes in Kent including St Thomas a Becket Church in Fairfield, Swale Nature Reserve Shellness, Oare and Elmley Marshes, Stangate Creek, The Historic Dockyard in Chatham and Thames and Medway Canal.