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TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY
Gary Oldman looks set to star as down-to-earth spook George Smiley in a big-screen version of John Le Carré's cold war thriller Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, according to Production Weekly. The new adaptation will be shot by the Swedish director Tomas Alfredson, best known for his beguiling vampire horror, Let the Right One In. The Oscar-winning screenwriter of The Queen and Frost/Nixon, Peter Morgan, has penned the script.
Other potential cast members include Colin Firth, Michael Fassbender and David Thewlis, all of whom are said to be in negotiations, though their possible roles have not been made clear. Alfredson was previously attached to The Danish Girl, which was to star Nicole Kidman as the male-to-female transsexual artist Lili Elbe, but has dropped that project in favour of the Le Carré adaptation.
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, which Le Carré published in 1974, centres on the middle-aged former intelligence expert Smiley, who is called out of forced retirement to find a Soviet mole in the "Circus", the highest level of MI6. In many ways, the character is the anti-James Bond, having little of 007's style and swagger.
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