Fiennes, Firth, Oldman and Fassbender Set for Spy Thriller
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Posted 08 July 2010 - 06:47 PM
Source: Variety
July 8, 2010
Ralph Fiennes, Colin Firth, Gary Oldman and Michael Fassbender will star in the espionage thriller Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy for Working Title and Studio Canal.
Tomas Alfredson (Let The Right One In) is directing the film, which starts shooting this October in London. Peter Morgan wrote the script.
Based on John Le Carre's seminal cold war best-seller, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, the thriller tells the tale of a spy-hunt within the highest echelons of the British Secret Intelligence Service.
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This sounds ****ing awesome. If you're not excited, or at least interested in this something is wrong with you.
This whole thing sounds off the ****ing chain.
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Posted 08 July 2010 - 09:13 PM
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Posted 08 July 2010 - 09:17 PM
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Posted 08 July 2010 - 11:04 PM
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Posted 08 July 2010 - 11:19 PM
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Posted 09 July 2010 - 12:13 AM
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Posted 09 July 2010 - 01:34 AM
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Posted 09 July 2010 - 04:04 AM
Fiennes is great in everything; If only they'd cast him as Holmes...
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Posted 09 July 2010 - 04:08 AM
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Posted 09 July 2010 - 06:58 AM
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Posted 01 August 2010 - 12:16 AM
Phew, not sure if this really needs a remake. The beep-series with Alec Guinness was pretty good and I don't know what a new attempt would add to it. It's a story that doesn't lend itself too easily to adaption and it would really also call for the greater picture, ie doing all three Karla books. Perhaps better left alone.
A new version after 30+ years and for a different medium isn't really stepping on the toes of the original IMO and whilst it's true that the story couldn't be comfortably told in 2hrs, the BBC serial is over-extended if anything so maybe a happy balance can be struck? Also the recent adaptations for Radio 4 managed to be completely fresh despite facing the same competition from already existing and justifiably acclaimed versions.
Edited by Peckinpah1976, 01 August 2010 - 12:17 AM.
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Posted 01 August 2010 - 04:20 AM
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Posted 01 August 2010 - 02:30 PM
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Posted 01 August 2010 - 03:57 PM
There was a radio drama version? I'm so jealous of you Brits getting those great literary radio dramas. I would love to get that on CD.
The entire Smiley cannon was recently produced for Radio 4 and damn fine they were too, earlier versions for most (but not all) of the novels exist as well (from the same station) but being made over a much longer period of time utilised different writers/actors etc. All can be easilly tracked down in the usual types of places - if you catch my drift.....
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Posted 01 August 2010 - 04:02 PM
There was a radio drama version? I'm so jealous of you Brits getting those great literary radio dramas. I would love to get that on CD.
I'm pretty sure that you can legitimately listen to BBC radio on their iPlayer site even abroad: they only stay on there a week after broadcast, though. Worth checking the BBC Radio 7 site as that plays archive stuff. You can't watch the TV shows, though.
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Posted 16 August 2010 - 08:41 PM
Benedict Cumberbatch has joined the cast of British spy drama Tinker, Tailor, Solider, Spy.
The Sherlock star revealed to The Sunday Times Magazine that he will play MI6 agent Peter Guillam in the remake from Let The Right One In director Tomas Alfredson.
Tinker, Taylor is based on John le Carré's spy novel and was previously adapted for a 1979 TV series with Michael Jayston in the Guillam role and Sir Alec Guinness as his mentor George Smiley.
Gary Oldman is expected to play Smiley in the new version, while Michael Fassbender, Colin Firth and David Thewlis have all held talks about starring in the movie.
Cumberbatch, who counts Atonement and Four Lions among his big screen credits, is also due to star in Steven Spielberg's upcoming War Horse.
Discussing the differences between his two forthcoming film roles, Cumberbatch said: "War Horse is a thrill, and an incredible CV filler, and Spielberg is amazing... but to me [Tinker, Tailor, Solider, Spy] is... such a grown-up role."
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Posted 16 August 2010 - 09:05 PM
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Posted 03 September 2010 - 11:37 PM
Fassbender had to drop out due to schedule conflicts with his role as young Magneto in X-Men: First Class.
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Posted 07 September 2010 - 08:59 PM
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Posted 14 November 2010 - 02:10 AM
Hopefully they can shoot for at least a two-hour PLUS running time. Going through the outline of the series in my head I suppose that there are a few places here and there they could shorten or ommit. Would like them to keep the slower pace if possible though. I hate how some movies these days feel the need to rush-rush-rush through everything.
Gary Oldman is a GREAT actor, and even though one of my first thoughts was that he's not old enough to be Smiley, I also thought that he's good enough that it doesn't really matter. This is the one thing I'm looking forward to most, since the pretty much every part in the series was casted PERFECTLY, I hope that the new cast can be half as good.
And one last thing, since I've heard the news I've been watching the series again and I think that Daniel Craig would've been a GREAT Peter Guilliam. In particular, when I was watching the scene where Alleline confronts Peter about Rikki Tarr I almost felt like Daniel Craig WAS Peter Gulliam. Just watch that scene again and look at that actor's manerisms and listen to his voice. It's VERY Daniel Craig.
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Posted 14 November 2010 - 02:41 PM
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Posted 28 December 2010 - 10:06 PM
http://justjared.buz...or-soldier-spy/
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Posted 29 December 2010 - 01:25 PM
Looks interesting, looking forward to the film, and hoping very much I will like it.Here are some photos of Tom Hardy on the set, and his overall look leads me to believe this remake will be a bit more...radical than we're expecting :
http://justjared.buz...or-soldier-spy/
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Posted 21 February 2011 - 03:25 PM
I hope they don't screw it up!
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Posted 21 February 2011 - 05:26 PM
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Posted 22 February 2011 - 06:48 AM
This could work. I enjoyed the books. May have to dig them out of my book vault for a fresh read, but with a cast like this and a modern setting, it could really make a go of it.
For my money, it narrowly edges out CR as the best spy novel ever written, so I'm very excited for this movie! But it's not a modern setting; they've kept the Cold War period and the hairstyles are very 70s! I approve. I can't really see the Karla trilogy working today.
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Posted 22 February 2011 - 03:04 PM
For my money, it narrowly edges out CR as the best spy novel ever written, so I'm very excited for this movie! But it's not a modern setting; they've kept the Cold War period and the hairstyles are very 70s! I approve. I can't really see the Karla trilogy working today.
VERY cool! Yeah, in thinking about it more, setting it present day would have been a mistake. Now I'm really going to have to dig out my books. Excellent news though.
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Posted 30 June 2011 - 01:46 PM