Rowan Atkinson Takes on Dickens

Mr. Bean, as usual, doing something asinine.

Director Peter Howitt and his producing partner Richard Johns are set to make a new version of the Charles Dickens classic David Copperfield that Johns claims will break the mold of mannered, reverential Dickens adaptations. "With Dickens," Johns said, "filmmakers have been trapped in this place where you have caricatured characters, but Peter wants to deal with them like real people."

Naturally, their mind went to Mr. Bean. Rowan Atkinson will play Mr. Micawber, Copperfield's landlord. As described, Atkinson will play the part not as a caricature but as a real person, assuming this "real person" is a bumbling retard making constant wide-eyed stares and strange noises.

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