Prior to that, we’d had a shoot-out, Magwitch and Compeyson plunging through a balustrade, and Miss Havisham setting her wedding dress alight as part of a masterplan to get the baddie. I laughed at a gun-toting Miss Havisham despatching Compeyson, then delivering the line: “I think your education is complete, Pip.” Let’s take this as Olivia Colman’s audition to be the next James Bond.
At least it injected some comedy into proceedings. “Reader, I divorced him.”Īnd perhaps it wouldn’t have been so bad if the new ending was thought-provoking, but what we were served was the standard finale of every ropey action film made in the past 50 years. Romeo and Juliet live happily ever after. Perhaps he could rewrite some other classics too. Of course Steven Knight changed the ending of Great Expectations (BBC One).