First Tolstoy, now Dickens: US TV mogul plans epic version of Tale of Two Cities

Harvey Weinstein, the producer behind War and Peace, talks about his plan for a BBC version of the Victorian classic

Television audiences who enjoyed watching a lavish Tolstoy adaptation last winter now have the promise of something “far, far better” to come.

Hard on the heels of the BBC’s hit serialisation of War and Peace, memories of St Petersburg and Moscow are set to be swept away by powerful historic images from another pair of great cities: Paris and London.

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