Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2011: Tomas Alfredson’s Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

#66. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

Director: Tomas Alfredson
Writer(s): Bridget O’Connor and Peter Straughan
Producers: Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner and Robyn Slovo
Distributor: Rights Available.

The Gist: This is based on the John Le Carré Cold War spy novel. Set in the 1970s, this finds George Smiley, a recently retired MI6 agent, doing his best to adjust to a life outside the secret service. However, when a disgraced agent reappears with information concerning a mole at the heart of the Circus, Smiley is drawn back into the murky field of espionage…(more)

Cast: Tom Hardy, Colin Firth, Gary Oldman, Mark Strong and Ciarán Hinds

List Worthy Reasons…: Let the Right One In was Tomas Alfredson’s ultimate calling card and no doubt this feature film which I’m branding as “my boys night out sort of film” appears to be a thinking man’s flick with high, not exaggerated levels of testosterone. Strong casting choices beginning with and not ending with the robust Tom Hardy and the fact that last John Le Carré novel to screen adaptation produced a strong thriller in The Constant Gardener makes this a welcomed divertissement on the film calender.

Release Date/Status?: Still in production, this is tagged with a September release in the U.K but should be picked up by a heavy weight distributor (most likely Universal) and prepped for a global release.