In a world where everyone is striving for what is not worth having, no one is more determined to climb to the heights of English society than Becky Sharp. In a world where everyone is striving for what is not worth having... A new adaptation of William Makepeace Thackerays Vanity Fair will be brought to our screens in 2018. Written by Gwyneth Hughes (Dark Angel, The Girl, Miss Austen Regrets) and co-produced by leading production companies Mammoth Screen (Victoria and Poldark) and Amazon Studios, Olivia Cooke - star of Steven Spielbergs forthcoming film Ready Player One - plays Thackerays timeless heroine Becky Sharp. Thackerays literary classic is set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, and follows Becky Sharp as she attempts to claw her way out of poverty and scale the heights of English Society. Her story of villainy, crime, merriment, lovemaking, jilting, laughing, cheating, fighting and dancing takes her all the way to the court of King George IV, via the Battle of Waterloo, breaking hearts and losing fortunes as she goes.