Birdsong (TV serial) a new James Bond novel. The name of screenwriter Andrew Davies was linked to the film. However, in September 2007 it was announced that Justin Chadwick would direct the film, with a screenplay by Morgan, to be filmed in 2008. In the end, the film was directed by Martin. Shooting of war scenes took place near Gyúró, Hungary. Remains of the set can be seen on Google Maps. Birdsong (TV serial) Birdsong is a two-part British 2012 television drama, based on the 1993 war novel "Birdsong" by Sebastian Faulks. It stars Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Wraysford and Clémence Poésy as
Birdsong (novel) and "War and Remembrance." Gorra described the novel as even more original than Barker's "The Ghost Road" and the rest of her Regeneration Trilogy. Kate Saunders, reviewing "Birdsong" for "The Sunday Times", praised the novel and described it as "without the political cynicism that colours more modern treatments of this catastrophe". Reviewers have also compared the novel to other literary works; for example, for one critic, the lead up to the Somme was as persuasive as the "scene in "Henry V" before the Battle of Agincourt", while the novelist Suzanne Ruta writes that Faulks creates characters with a similar depth