Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight is dropping the first in a series of Charles Dickens adaptations this Christmas with his reimagining of A Christmas Carol for FX and BBC One. Knight is yet to d…
and added: “You’ve got an opportunity for the first time to actually approach not just Dickens, but big novels, and take these classic characters and possibly do justice to them because you’ve got time.”
Knight said he enjoys searching for deeper meaning in Dickens’ work. “When Dickens was writing, there were certain things he couldn’t deal with because of the sensibilities of the time. So what I did was go through the story forensically and look for things that were maybe implied or suggested,” he explained.
“The thing with Dickens is that he often does a paragraph which, because it’s not moving the plot along, you sort of ignore. It feels like a tangent. But there’s always something in there that probably meant more to the audience at the time.”is a “short story” and so can be done in three parts. He added that its popularity has endured because it is a timeless tale of redemption that has “invented the Christmas we know.
He said: “There is something very simple about past, present future. Is it the case that what happened in the past makes who you are in the present and therefore predicts what you will be in the future? Or, is it possible in the present to look at what’s happened in the past, imagine what might happen in the future and therefore change it?
“It’s a very fundamental question that’s asked by the story and people like it because it’s Christmas and the answer is hopeful. No matter what you’ve done or had done to you, you can do something about it and change what you will be.”
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