Dev Patel - Photo by filmfestivals.com

The BFI London Film Festival kicks off today, October 2, with "The Personal History of David Copperfield"

A lot of the cast was here tonight on the red carpet at the Odeon Luxe in Leicester Square in London, including Dev Patel (Slumdog Millionaire), Hugh Laurie, Rosalind Eleazar and Nikki Amura-Bird.

Morfyyd Eleazar - filmfestivals.com

Hugh Laurie - filmfestivals.com

Other filmfestivals.com coverage for "The Personal History of David Copperfield":

On the red carpet at Odeon Luxe Leicester Square in London

The Q&A session with director and producer

The Personal History of David Copperfield is directed by Armando Iannucci

An avid Dickens fan, Armando Iannucci (the award-winning writer/director of The Thick of It, In the Loop, Veep and The Death of Stalin) adapts here, alongside frequent collaborator Simon Blackwell, employing his comedic mastery and vivid characterizations to bring to life one of Dickens’ most cherished characters in THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD. From birth to infancy, from adolescence to adulthood, the good-hearted David Copperfield is surrounded by kindness, wickedness, poverty and wealth, as he meets an array of remarkable characters in Victorian England. As David sets out to be a writer, in his quest for family, friendship, romance and status, the story of his life is the most seductive tale of all. The film stars Dev Patel in the title role alongside a wealth of British talent including Tilda Swinton, Hugh Laurie, Peter Capaldi, Ben Whishaw and Paul Whitehouse. #CopperfieldFilm