Thursday, July 9, 2009

Alfredson, Morgan Tinker with Le Carre's Spy Classic


I shouldn't admit this, but if I'm anything, I'm brutally honest. I haven't seen Let the Right One In.

There's no excuse. The flick's available for instant streaming, and I'm paying for it. I've got Netflix, an solid web connection, a computer and an XBox 360 - yet I still haven't gotten around to checking it out. I'm a bad person.

The BBC is reporting that Swedish director Tomas Alfredson, the man behind the aforementioned vampire flick, is set to direct Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, an adaptation of the Cold War espionage thriller by John Le Carre. Peter Morgan (Frost/Nixon, The Queen) is set to script the film for Working Title.

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy was previously adapted as an award-winning tv series in the late 1970s. The show starred Alec Guiness as a retired intelligencer who gets back into the game to uncover a Russian double-agent who's wreaking havoc in the agency he was dismissed from. If you're interested, you can check it out right here.


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