Doctor Zhivago remake in development

A drama series on Doctor Zhivago is in the pipeline.

Michael Hirst (Vikings and The Tudors) has teamed with Sherlock produce Sue Vertue to remake Boris Pasternak’s classic novel as an eight-part series.

It is being produced by British indie Hartswood Films, which is producing forthcoming BBC drama Dracula, and Bryncoed Productions.  It was famously adapted into a 1965 feature film by David Lean starring Omar Sharif and adapted in 2002 as a miniseries for ITV with Sam Neill and Keira Knightley.

In the epic tale of love, war and revolution, Hirst will bring Pasternak’s book to screen depicting the drama and immense scope of the Russian Revolution through the story of the gifted physician-poet, Zhivago; the revolutionary, Strelnikov; and Lara, the passionate woman they both love. Caught up in the overwhelming events of politics and war that will eventually destroy him and millions of others, Zhivago clings to the private world of family life and love, embodied by the magical Lara.

No broadcaster is on board as yet.

Source: Deadline