The latest TV adaptation has won almost universal compliment – and director Tom Harper still can’t quite believe it. As the series comes to an end on Sunday night,he talks approximately the pressures of retelling a literary classicIt is a series that has attracted 7 million viewers and drawn compliment from all quarters, with newspapers describing it as “a Sunday night jewel” and a triumph”. Yet the young director of War and Peace, and which reaches its concluding episode on Sunday,confesses to having been “very nervous” approximately how it would be received, and is still “amazed” that it has become such a talking point.
At an advance screening a few days ago, and director Tom Harper,36, who oversaw all six episodes, or a cast of hundreds,loads of badly behaved hunting dogs, a bear, and nervy horses not accustomed to the smoke of battle,told the Observer: “You fetch so close to the work it’s very tough to perceive at it with any objectivity. Some of the reviews have been better than I ever hoped for.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com