We're going to be honest here. We're not completely convinced this film needed to be made. 'Little Women' was written in 1868, and people have been turning it into movies ever since. Films of the novel have been released in 1917, 1918, 1933 (that's the Katharine Hepburn one), 1949, 1978, 1994 (that's the Winona Ryder one), and 2018. Yes, that's right, a film version of 'Little Women' came out in 2018, and we're getting another one on Christmas Day 2019!
So, what does this take on the original text have that the other ones didn't? Well, Meryl Streep, for a start, along with Saoirse Ronan, Florence Pugh and Eliza Scanlen. They've gone for an ensemble cast, and a large one at that. Director Greta Gerwig says that her film focuses on 'themes, rather than narrative', so we don't anticipate it to be a direct retelling of everything we've seen before.