![]() ![]() In rewriting Dickens’ 1849 tome about the coming of age of a man from youth to adulthood, from impoverished orphan to decorated Victorian author, 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. ![]() After a Toronto International Film Festival premiere back in fall 2019, Searchlight Pictures finally will release “The Personal History of David Copperfield” in the United States on May 8, 2020. It’s cowritten by Iannucci collaborator Simon Blackwell. ![]() Right on the heels of another trailer starring Dev Patel that released today - “The Green Knight,” from director David Lowery - Searchlight Pictures has revealed a new look at “ The Personal History of David Copperfield.” Patel stars as the title character in writer/director Armando Iannucci’s (“Veep”) revisionist take on the classic Charles Dickens bildungsroman. ![]()
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