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) the published version did not fully do justice to the experience of war: it did not provide readers with "a full appreciation of the soldiers' physical experience; and, perhaps more importantly, a philosophical understanding of what it meant to be part of the first genocidal event of the century – the one that made the others imaginable". Because Faulks felt that much of the extant World War I literature was deeply influenced by World War II literature, he deliberately avoided research with secondary documents, such as historical monographs, instead focusing on veteran interviews and period primary sources. The novel was