He said Magwitch's boat escape scenes were being filmed with Fiennes on Thursday in Kent.

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Scripted by One Day author David Nicholls, the film features Helena Bonham Carter as Miss Havisham and Ralph Fiennes as Magwitch.

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The film, directed by Mike Newell, is currently being shot in the UK and stars Helena Bonham Carter as Miss Havisham and Ralph Fiennes as Magwitch.

BBC: Great Expectations: New end penned for Dickens classic

The novel also uses a bleak churchyard on the Hoo Peninsula as inspiration for the scene where the young Pip meets escaped convict Magwitch in the opening chapter.

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Great Expectations, which is released in UK cinemas on 30 November, also stars Ralph Fiennes as convict Magwitch, Robbie Coltrane as Mr Jaggers, and Jeremy Irvine as Pip.

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This leafy plaza, within view of the Thames, is where Pip, the main character in Great Expectations, was living when the convict Abel Magwitch turned up one night to reveal a life-altering secret.

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