Leo Tolstoy's War And Peace To Get BBC Adaptation                     
40 years after previous version BBC turn to Russian epic
 
Eddie Redmayne will star in a remake of Leo Tolstoy's epic Russian novel War and Peace, which will be brought to television by BBC Wales, 40 years after the last time that an adaptation came to the small screen.
 by BBC Wales, 40 years after the last time that an adaptation came to the small screen. 
 The novel is a notoriously difficult book to 
film
,  coming in at roughly 1500 pages and with long passages devoted to  battles in the Napoleonic Wars, alongside the epic intertwining love  stories set in 
Russia
 in the early 19th Century.
 According to the Beeb the script will be written by the scribe who wrote the 1995 
TV
 adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, famously featuring Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle.
 Redmayne will continue his history of starring in historical epics,  cutting his teeth on channel 4's The Pillars of the Earth and most  recently starring in 
Les Miserables
.
The 
novel
  is regarded as one of the world's most important literary works, and  according to the BBC, Davies said it was, ""Not just a great novel, it's  a wonderful 
read
 and it'll make a wonderful serial."
 He added: "The characters are so natural and human and 
easy
  to identify with and Natasha Rostova (the main female protagonist of  the novel) just beats Lizzy Bennet (Pride and Prejudice's heroine) as  the most lovable heroine in literature," he added.
 The 1972 series featured Sir Anthony Hopkins as the aristocratic  dilletante turned wealthy landowner who features as the novel's moral  and philosophical heart.