Have you heard that Andrew Davies is adapting War and Peace into a six hour television miniseries? Davies is responsible for some of my very favourite adaptations – Wives and Daughters (1999), Vanity Fair (1998), and, of course, Pride and Prejudice (1995) – and I cannot wait to see how this turns out. Having seen how wonderfully he handled both Elizabeth Bennet and Becky Sharp, I trust Davies to do full justice to the entirely charming Natasha.
War and Peace and Andrew Davies
February 18, 2013 by Claire (The Captive Reader)
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That is very exciting! Thank you for letting us know. Now that Downton is over I am hoping for some new quality television shows.
It is exciting but I doubt it will help to fill your Downton-less television schedule: the project has only just been announced so it will still be a long time before it comes together – more than enough time for another season or two of Downton Abbey! But, in the meantime, you can always work through some of Davies’ other work: Bleak House, the new American-version of House of Cards, The Way We Live Now…the list goes on!
He also did Bleak House back in 2005 which is just brilliant. I didn’t realize he did Wives & Daughters — one of my favorites!
Bleak House is brilliant – even I loved it and I am far from being a fan of Dickens!
Something to look forward to. I might even have finished the book by the time it is showing on TV!
It is always good to have a deadline to aim for! 😉
How exciting! I hope six hours will be enough – although Bleak House was astonishing for the amount of stuff it packed into each episode…
I think it will be enough – especially once you cut out all of the philosophizing that there is in the book. It will be shorter than Sergei Bondarchuk’s epic film but I trust Davies to make it work.