'EXPECTATIONS' FOR DE NIRO?Byline: Stephen Galloway Hollywood Reporter Robert De Niro Noun 1. Robert De Niro - United States film actor who frequently plays tough characters (born 1943) De Niro soon may don shackles. Sources said the Academy Award-winning actor is in talks to take the role of the convict in a contemporary version of Charles Dickens' 1861 novel "Great Expectations" that 20th Century Fox and producer Art Linson have been developing. Ethan Hawke also has been set to star opposite De Niro Noun 1. De Niro - United States film actor who frequently plays tough characters (born 1943) Robert De Niro in the film in the role of Pip (although the characters in the film carry different names). Other well-known actors have hazarded the role of Magwitch the convict before - most notably Anthony Hopkins in a British television series This List of UK television series is a list of TV series that were made and shown in the United Kingdom. It does not include foreign-made imports. : Top - 0-9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z - See also - External link 0-9 The novel tells the story of Pip, a young boy who helps an escaped convict. Years later, he learns that he has come into unexpected wealth from an unknown source - that he is suddenly a young man of "great expectations." He thinks the money comes from the eccentric Miss Havisham, but learns to his mortification MORTIFICATION, Scotch law. This term is nearly synonymous with mortmain. that it has been bestowed by the grateful Magwitch. "Great Expectations," written by Mitch Glazer and directed by Alfonso Cuaron ("A Little Princess A Little Princess is a 1905 children's novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It is a revised and expanded version of Burnett's 1888 serialized novella entitled Sara Crewe: or, What happened at Miss Minchin's boarding school, which was published in St. "), is set for a summer start. Representatives for Fox declined comment. |
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