It's going to be hard to beat the Anthony Hopkins TV serialized version, but Davies hit a home run with the bases loaded with his Jennifer Ehle-Colin Firth Pride and Prejudice.
I can’t think of any one more qualified than Andrew Davies to write the screenplay.
Sergei Bondarchuk said Tolstoy was the most difficult film he did as a director. I don’t know how he pulled it off.
The Soviet mini-series is faithful to Tolstoy’s philosophy and is impressive for its interpretation of the Battle Of Borodino.
For its time, the hand-held camera work was revolutionary but it would have all have been in vain where it not for the great acting.
BBC set itself to try to surpass a tough act to follow and I didn’t think any one could do Bondarchuk’s masterpiece on the screen better - until now.