{"id":8571,"date":"2010-06-07T19:39:39","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T00:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=8571"},"modified":"2018-09-01T09:31:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-01T13:31:00","slug":"oldman-cast-in-tinker-tailor-soldier-spy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/06\/07\/oldman-cast-in-tinker-tailor-soldier-spy\/","title":{"rendered":"Oldman Cast In TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Gary Oldman has been cast as retired British spy master George Smiley in a new adaptation of John Le Carre’s classic Cold War thriller Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Oldman will be stepping in to the shoes of Sir Alec Guiness who played the role in 1979 for the seven-part BBC adaptation of the book. It aired as part of PBS’s Great Performances<\/em> series. He reprised the role in 1982 for the BBC’s adaptation of the sequel novel Smiley’s People<\/em>.<\/p>\n

In Le Carre’s novel, George Smiley is a retired intelligence officer who is reactivated in order to ferret out a Soviet mole in the highest levels of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service. Le Carre based the novel on the Cambridge Five, a group of Soviet spies operating in England from World War Two up into the 1950s.<\/p>\n

The new film version of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy<\/strong> will be helmed by Let The Right One In<\/strong> director Tomas Alfredson from a script by Frost\/Nixon<\/strong> and The Queen<\/strong> scribe Peter Morgan.<\/p>\n

Via Cinematical<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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