{"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":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/TinkerTailorSoldierSpyCover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8576\" title=\"TinkerTailorSoldierSpyCover\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/TinkerTailorSoldierSpyCover-193x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"193\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Gary Oldman has been cast as retired British spy master George Smiley in a new adaptation of John Le Carre&#8217;s classic Cold War thriller <em>Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s <em>Great Performances<\/em> series. He reprised the role in 1982 for the BBC&#8217;s adaptation of the sequel novel <em>Smiley&#8217;s People<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In Le Carre&#8217;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&#8217;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<p>The new film version of <strong>Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy<\/strong> will be helmed by <strong>Let The Right One In<\/strong> director Tomas Alfredson from a script by <strong>Frost\/Nixon<\/strong> and <strong>The Queen<\/strong> scribe Peter Morgan.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20110104071014\/http:\/\/blog.moviefone.com:80\/2010\/06\/06\/gary-oldman-to-star-in-tinker-tailor-soldier-spy\" target=\"_blank\">Cinematical<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Gary Oldman has been cast as retired British spy master George Smiley in a new adaptation of John Le Carre&#8217;s classic Cold War thriller Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. Oldman will be stepping in to the <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/06\/07\/oldman-cast-in-tinker-tailor-soldier-spy\/\" title=\"Oldman Cast In TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[2180,2833,2834],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8571","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-gary-oldman","8":"tag-john-le-carre","9":"tag-tinker-tailor-soldier-spy"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8571"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=8571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}