EXCLUSIVE: Brian Cox (Succession), Nicola Coughlan (Bridgerton), Oscar winner Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out) and Emilio Villa-Muhammad (The Man Who Fell to Earth) are heading up the all-star forged of Audible Unique title Oliver Twist, produced by Oscar winner Sam Mendes (1917).
Launched as we speak on Audible, the variation of Dickens’ traditional will even star Package Connor (Heartstopper), Paapa Essiedu (I Might Destroy You), Julia Davis (Gavin & Stacey), Nick Mohammed (Ted Lasso), Patricia Allison (Intercourse Training) and Diane Morgan (Motherland).
The traditional story follows a younger orphan born into the grimmest of nineteenth century English workhouses, confronted with a lifetime of grinding poverty. Regardless of this, Oliver (Villa-Muhammad) is a fighter and after being evicted from the workhouse for asking for “extra” and surviving a stint as an undertaker’s assistant, he walks many miles to London and finds an entire new life with a gang of younger pickpockets led by the Clever Dodger (Elijah Wolf) and their guardian Fagin (Cox).
Harmful thief Invoice Sikes might be portrayed by Kaluuya. Nicola Coughlan will play Nancy, Sikes’ girlfriend.
Recorded in Audible’s London studio, the collection additionally options Foley recordings captured in Dickens’ former London home at 48 Doughty Avenue, within the rooms the place he wrote Oliver Twist. The audiobook will even characteristic an authentic rating from Dan Gillespie-Sells, lead singer of The Feeling and composer of hit West Finish musical Everyone’s Speaking About Jamie.
Oliver Twist marks the primary in a trilogy of Audible Unique diversifications of Charles Dickens classics produced by Mendes, with the following title to be launched in 2023. All three audio dramas will characteristic British casts and might be recorded in London, incorporating the sounds of town.
Cox stated: “Dickens was a genius storyteller and Oliver Twist could also be his best ever work. Reimagining a personality as complicated and changeable as Fagin provides an actual problem for an actor, and I hope listeners get pleasure from our telling of this masterpiece.”
Coughlan added: “It was delighted to be requested to play such a seminal position. After I learn the script, it struck me that this adaptation gave the character of Nancy extra depth and nuance. I hope everybody at house will get all of the feels as they arrive with us on her journey.”
Kaluuya commented: “There are few villains as notorious or terrifying as Invoice Sikes, and I actually loved getting the possibility to report a brand new tackle him for Audible. Hold the lights on – a few of his scenes are actually darkish.”
Mendes stated: “Dickens was the final word storyteller, and listening to Oliver Twist come to life in such a compelling, 3D means feels precisely how he may need wished it to be skilled. The forged is incredible, and I’ve by no means heard an audio manufacturing earlier than that’s so filmic. It’s cinema for the ears.”
