One of our most-anticipated films this year is Let The Right One In director Tomas Alfredson‘s Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. Based on the novel by espionage master John le Carré (The Constant Gardener, The Tailor of Panama), the property has already been turned into a BBC series and radio show, but will be getting the feature film treatment for the first time. If the excellence of Let The Right One In isn’t enough to amp up anticipation, the cast is also stellar.
Think of it as a pre-The Dark Knight Rises reunion with Gary Oldman and Tom Hardy leading with Oscar-winner Colin Firth. Mark Strong, Ciarán Hinds, Benedict Cumberbatch, David Dencik, Stephen Graham, Toby Jones, and John Hurt also star in the Cold War-set thriller following a retired spy (Oldman) brought in to find a suspected spy within British intelligence agency MI6.
Universal Pictures picked up the domestic rights for a late 2011 release. We will likely see the film on fall festival run, as producer Doug Urbanski recently stated their “very serious Oscar contender” has been invited to open Venice and will likely see a UK release in September and then a October/November opening in the US. We now have our first official look at Hardy and Firth in the film. The former plays “Tricky” Ricky Tarr, an acquaintance of Oldman’s character George Smiley. Check out the pic of Oldman above and of the other two below via RopeofSilicon/The Playlist.
