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) "[ran] into problems"—especially concerning Elizabeth Benson, whom he "stopped believing in [as a] character". Unlike other reviewers, the critic Sarah Belo did not question the historical investigation plot, but the depiction of Elizabeth's experience as a 1970s woman in England. On the other hand, almost all of the reviewers describe the novel's war sections as excellently written; for example, the review in the "Los Angeles Times" called the sections "so powerful as to be almost unbearable". The novel has been favourably compared to other World War I and II novels, including "All Quiet on the Western Front", "The Young Lions"