| Tango01 | 04 Oct 2015 12:55 p.m. PST |
"…Leo Tolstoy's WAR AND PEACE directed in six episodes by Tom Harper! Airing at the end of the year, it brings the classic story that revolves around five aristocratic Russian families, set during the reign of Alexander I, and centred on the love triangle between Natasha Rostova, Pierre Bezukhov, and Andrei Bolkonsky in the days of the Napoleonic French army's invasion of Mother Russia. Lily James, plays heroine Natasha Rostova charismatic James Norton is Prince Andrei Bolkonsky and Paul Dano is Pierre Bezukhov. Oscar winner Jim Broadbent, Gillian Anderson, Jack Lowden, Rebecca Front, Aneurin Barnard, Brian Cox, Greta Scacchi and Ade Edmondson all star in supporting roles. WAR AND PEACE will air sometime this winter at BBC and will be simultaneously broadcast over in USA and around the world by Lifetime, History and A+E! Catch the glimpse of the series in BBC's Winter series trailer"
From Hollywood Spy.
Only small parts in this trailer… hope to see more soon!. YouTube link Amicalement
Armand |
| Dynaman8789 | 04 Oct 2015 1:18 p.m. PST |
I HATE that second photo and the modern style of it. Looks like kids going out for trick or treat. Hopefully a good show however. |
| Trajanus | 04 Oct 2015 1:28 p.m. PST |
Clips look interesting. Cavalry charge looks cool. As always the trick will be to balance the TMPer eye against what was possible with the production budget and the storytelling. Then remember it's made so Mr & Mrs Average can get into it over a cup of tea and a slice of cake! |
| Mike the Analyst | 04 Oct 2015 2:25 p.m. PST |
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| Brian Smaller | 04 Oct 2015 2:55 p.m. PST |
Clips look interesting. Cavalry charge looks cool. As always the trick will be to balance the TMPer eye against what was possible with the production budget and the storytelling.
So true mate. Hey – if Richard Sharpe fought the Battle of Waterloo with twenty redcoats, two riflemen and six French Cuirassiers, I am sure some CGI extras in a new War and Peace will be fantastic! Looking forward to seeing it. |
| Clays Russians | 04 Oct 2015 7:22 p.m. PST |
Meh, wasn't this just done recently about 6-8 Yeats ago? |
| vtsaogames | 04 Oct 2015 8:27 p.m. PST |
Here's the trailer for just War and Peace YouTube link
It looks like the whole 19 or 20 episodes are already on Youtube. Natasha a blonde? It was so many years ago I read it. Am I just remembering Audrey Hepburn? |
| Cerdic | 04 Oct 2015 11:43 p.m. PST |
The 19 or 20 episodes on YouTube are the old adaptation done in the 1970s, I think. This latest one is squeezed into 6 episodes! Interesting cast in this new one. I think Lily James was in Downton Abbey, but I've no idea who the two main blokes are. But Jim Broadbent and Rebecca Front are always excellent and, brilliantly, the legend that is Ade Edmonson! |
| boy wundyr x | 05 Oct 2015 7:27 a.m. PST |
Which one's the vampire and which one's the werewolf again??? |
| Jcfrog | 05 Oct 2015 8:07 a.m. PST |
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| Gazzola | 05 Oct 2015 8:31 a.m. PST |
I hope I am wrong but to me it looks more like the Downton Abbey people meet Sharpe's people and some re-enactors who don't want to get their expensive kits dirty. And I bet the cannons don't recoil? |
| Tango01 | 05 Oct 2015 10:14 a.m. PST |
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| holdit | 05 Oct 2015 2:50 p.m. PST |
"…Richard Sharpe fought the Battle of Waterloo with twenty redcoats, two riflemen and six French Cuirassiers" I hope they portray accurately that the way to kill an infantryman from horseback is to tap him in the small of the back with the flat of the blade… |
| Trajanus | 06 Oct 2015 3:40 a.m. PST |
The YouTube link is interesting, never even knew that version existed! Not the new BBC one but interesting all the same. |
| Mike the Analyst | 06 Oct 2015 6:34 a.m. PST |
That is the French led production from 2007 – see link on the other thread on this subject. |
| alphus99 | 10 Oct 2015 4:40 a.m. PST |
When I was young teenager in the 1970s I remember being capitivated by the BBC's War & Peace mentioned above – rather disconcerting that this great story is being squeezed into only 6 episodes! |
| Old Peculiar | 15 Oct 2015 3:01 p.m. PST |
Whinge whinge whinge whinge whinge, sometimes I wonder why tv and film companies even try to produce historical drama, maybe they should just stick to ballroom dancing and Big Brother, which have all the elements of War and Peace! |
| 42flanker | 16 Oct 2015 5:45 a.m. PST |
Setting the merits of the broadcast episodes themselves to one side (I havent seen the show), it has to be said those publicity shots are spectacularly lame. As they often tend to be. I alwsys wonder who they are suppose to speak to… I am reminded of the taste once upon a time for opening credits of TV shows with a cheesey sequence of the cast giving their 'best look' to the camera- hunky, cutesy, cheesey, as it might be. |
| Gazzola | 16 Oct 2015 8:28 a.m. PST |
42flanker I think the publicity is aimed more for those interested in who the various actors and actresses will be, as opposed to those attending this website, who, like myself, are probably more interested in the military and Napoleonic battle aspects. But after all, War and Peace is a drama and tale that is more about people and their relationship to events and other people, with the 1812 campaign as the background, so I suppose we should not expect too much on the military side. And, as Old Peculiar hinted in his post, perhaps we should not complain too much, considering it is Napoleonic and we very rarely see the period portrayed on TV. |
| Henry Simmerson | 16 Oct 2015 9:32 a.m. PST |
I'm with Old Peculiar on this. I'm looking forward to it, as I also really enjoyed Joe Wright's Anna Karenina. |
