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Martin Freeman and Jim Broadbent are set to star in "The Bride’s Chamber," an upcoming ghost story based on a Charles Dickens novella co-written with Wilkie Collins. Set in a lonely inn, the story involves a vengeful suitor who manipulates a young woman into marriage to gain her fortune but faces his own dark consequences. BBC Arts commissioning editor Mark Bell describes it as part of a wider celebration of Dickens’ works this December, including documentaries and adaptations airing on BBC Two.
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BBC Arts announced that Martin Freeman and Jim Broadbent will star in an adaptation of Charles Dickens' ghost story titled "The Bride’s Chamber," which is part of the network's Ghost Story For Christmas series. The film, directed by Mark Gatiss and set to air this December as part of the National Year of Reading initiative, tells a tale involving a vengeful suitor manipulating a young woman for her fortune, leading to tragic consequences. Principal photography was completed earlier at Ingatestone Hall in Essex. Mark Bell, commissioning editor for BBC Arts, highlighted the tradition of Ghost Story For Christmas as an essential part of British festive television and expressed delight about this year's adaptation featuring a "spine-tingling tale."
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Martin Freeman and Jim Broadbent to star in Dickensian Ghost Story For Christmas
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The Bride’s Chamber follows a spurned and vengeful suitor who manipulates a young woman and marries her to claim her fortune, but his murderous plans create his own purgatory.
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“A weird and nasty little treasure which lurks within a work co-written with the great Wilkie Collins.
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Mark Bell, commissioning editor for BBC Arts, said: “The Ghost Story For Christmas has become an essential dish on the festive TV menu, for audiences who love nothing more than settling in for a spine-tingling tale on a winter’s night.
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“This year we’re delighted to bring you this spooky story by Charles Dickens, brilliantly adapted and directed by Mark Gatiss, with a great cast, to coincide with a range of further Dickens-inspired programming set to air across the BBC in December as part of the National Year of Reading.”
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Principal photography took place earlier this year on location at Ingatestone Hall, Essex.
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This winter the BBC will also present a three-part documentary examining how Dickens drew creative inspiration from the streets of Victorian London after dark, as well as a four-part adaptation of Dickens’ classic A Tale Of Two Cities, starring Kit Harington.
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A Ghost Story For Christmas: The Bride’s Chamber will air on BBC Two.
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