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From the director of Let The Right One In, an adaptation of John LeCarre‘s slow-burn adult suspense tale (this time set in the ’70s) about uncovering the identity of a Russian mole within the British Secret Service. Pure candy and ice cream for someone like myself, but for the under-30 Eloi crowd….? And for Joe Popcorn living in Dubuque and Trenton and Tucumcari?
Shot by the great Hoyte van Hotema (The Fighter) and costarring Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, Mark Strong and Ciaran Hinds. And “opening” only two and half months from now at Telluride/Toronto/Venice (although the U.S. debut via Focus Features isn’t until November).
The question for me is how long will it run? How thorough will the plotting be? The original British-produced miniseries adaptation with Alec Guinnness ran for six hour-long episodes (although Acorn Media’s DVD box set runs 290 minutes).
An Amazon poster wrote the following about the miniseries: “I found it enormously refreshing to have to work hard at understanding [the goings-on]. This difficulty, of course, is not superfluous, but central to the mood of the story. The complexity mirrors the moral complexity of the situation the characters find themselves in. The makers of the series could have simplified the plot, could have made everything that was happening clear from the outset, but it would have thereby distorted the story.
“The opening credits begin with a shot of those Russian dolls that open to reveal a still smaller doll inside. The story is one of layers beneath layers, like unpeeling an onion. The complexity of the narrative enhances this.”
What the heck his Colin Firth doing in this. It looks really good. Didn’t he get the memo that he was supposed to follow up his Oscar with a crappy super hero film? He should have been Green Lantern.
Beautifully edited preview – Allegedly Danny Elfman’s WOLFMAN score being used…
I read the novel earlier this year in anticipation for this film. Haven’t seen the BBC mini-series, but this looks like it is going to be a first rate thriller. Can’t wait!
The bullshit “Eloi” bullshit aside, the question is fair, who is the theater-going audience for this?
Ill probably love this to death but even I won’t pay money to see it in a movie theater.
This film, Drive, and The Wettest Country in the World are the three films I’m most looking forward to seeing for the rest of the year.
“Ill probably love this to death but even I won’t pay money to see it in a movie theater”.
So you’re the reason shitty movies get made.
Jeff, the release date is September for the UK but I believe Focus is releasing it in November in the U.S.
Looks good, if gray, but…
Wig City. Can’t actors just grow their own hair out? That’s some Kill the Irishman-level level phony hair and burns work.
Also Mark Strong is fast becoming the most boringly glum addition to any movie. When he first starting popping up, it was like, whoa, what a badass. Now he just puts me to sleep. He also is a STRONG candidate for the Stars Who Look Like They Have Foot Odor club.
Can’t wait. Hope it doesn’t get dumbed up for test audiences.
Ill probably love this to death but even I won’t pay money to see it in a movie theater.
I suppose you’re going for some sort of subtle distinction here, but unless you’re one of those home theater guys that waits till DVD for everything, this statement makes absolutely no sense. Why would you not see a movie that you expect to love?
I dunno, Alec Guinness so completely owns Smiley in my eyes, that it’s hard to imagine another version of Tinker Tailor.
It’d be like if there was a big budget movie version of I, Claudius. Yeah, great, good source material, nice to see full-on Hollywood production values in play, but… who’s gonna go up against Derek Jacobi?
Anyone think they’re trying to sell Oldman a bit too hard as the spy? I hope that isn’t the case.
I can totally understand Wrong Jeff’s stance on not seeing this in a theater. It’ll probably get a limited staggered release, and then you’ll hear all the raves and what not, but then Scorsese whips out his fantastical 3D pic and that’s just calling for a theater screening, where as this would have the same effect if you watched it on a high def tv or laptop. I know we’d all like to see every movie we can in a theater, and nothing tops it, but still some movies just don’t call out for it.
It’s getting harder and harder to distinguish between the facetious and the idiotic around here these days.
Mark G. – this is for certain Eflman’s Wolfman score.
Oh yeah, bring it. Jeff’s headline says it all. Slightly off topic… Am I the only one who didn’t realize the Mark Strong is bald in real life?
LOL @ “BAFTA Award Winner”. Poor Gary Oldman.
And the title comes up way too fast for those who aren’t familiar with the material. They should have been shown on the screen one word at a time, and then all together.
Wells to Mathew Starr: Well, at least it’ll be viewable in September at the Toronto/Telluride/Venice film festivals.
Looks terrific, nice to see Benedict Cumberbatch in there too. But yeah, the running time could be an issue. If it’s 150 mins plus it may work, if it’s been pruned to 120 mins or under – not so sure.
Right but 99.9% of the movie going public in the U.S can’t view this until mid November so they might be mislead when you say, “And opening only two and half months from now.”
Just saying…..
Looks like Ghost Writer with a gun to me…
Looks sweet.
My initial reaction was the same as JLC’s first sentence in his response, although for an entirely different reason.
Anyone else think Firth looks a little out of place here, or is it just me? The rest of the actors listed seem to kind of have their stock-in-trade of being duplicitous motherfuckers, whereas he has always seemed (at least to me) to be more of a WYSIWYG-type thesp. At any rate, I don’t know these characters at all — and for all I know, maybe Firth’s a big against-type ace up their sleeves — so I’ll reserve judgment.
“BAFTA Award Winner” Gary Oldman is a little embarrassing at this point. How the hell has this dude never even been nominated? If I cared more about the Oscars, I would be outraged.
D.Z. — I’m not sure what we would all do without your contributions here.
Sadly, I’m only half-kidding.
Is this the Sausage Fest of the year? Even though I’ll make the case for “The Thing” all day long, in general Sausage Fest movies always bring me down– Master and Commander, Red October, etc. This needs like a hot Russian hooker or bad-ass female assassin who does ninja moves and wears fetish heels or something, or one of the dudes could have a CUTE! CUTE! daughter who gets kidnapped or something and ends up tied up with a gag in her mouth and running makeup. That’s always a crowd pleaser.
I suppose you’re going for some sort of subtle distinction here, but unless you’re one of those home theater guys that waits till DVD for everything, this statement makes absolutely no sense. Why would you not see a movie that you expect to love?
Pretty much the former, thanks to one wife, two jobs and three kids.
I could do fifty or more movies a year ten years ago. Today, I’m lucky to get out to see five a year in the theater.
Which means dramas, no matter how well made, nearly always fall in the Netflix/cable bin: there’s just not enough benefit to seeing a movie like this in a theater with a dim projector, blown speakers, no parking, for $40 a person.
As awful as it is, it takes a movie like Transformers to get me to go to the movies because I know the only way that’ll ever be entertaining is to see it on a big screen.
FOCUS is releasing this, right?
Between this, THE AMERICAN, HANNA, and LIMITS OF CONTROL they now officially have the market cornered on arty, assassin/espionage films. This is a good thing.
This looks incredible. This is now officially up there with my most anticipated films for what looks like to be a great year, movie-wise.
Amanda Fairbank-Hynes not worthy of a least a lowercase “look at her?”
“This is now officially up there with my most anticipated films for what looks like to be a great year, movie-wise.”
Are you posting this from February ’11 using your DeLorean Wi-Fi? The year’s half over — where have you been?
I can’t think of single whodunit that I actually loved aside from Usual Suspects. I couldn’t believe the amount of friends that got into The Killer; I kept asking, aren’t they just jerking you around? I was reportedly proved prescient.
Shit, shit, shit! Focus???
Hey, can someone tell me if they’re also handling the Cronenberg movie? Wiki says that’s somehow a Universal in the domestic US.
Need to know how soon to plan the quitting of my horrible job.
Gary Oldman is completely wrong for this.
The entire point of the book and miniseries was that Smiley looked NOTHING like what we expect a spy catcher to appear as. Unassuming Smiley hobbles through this landscape of double agents and secret agendas looking all the world like some banking pensioner on holiday, constantly dismissed and mocked by all those around him.
The reason the original worked so well with Alec Guiness is that he was like Columbo dropped into a James Bond world.
Forget this and watch the original…
Need to know how soon to plan the quitting of my horrible job.
How come you’re not a colorist?
“How come you’re not a colorist?”
I’ve worked at posthouses that did telecine, and trained briefly on that… But it’s all basically the same shit– going through new movies, frame by frame, weeks before release and usually piecemeal. Like I could go into my office tomorrow and be handed TTSS and told “start at minute 87 and go through it frame by frame from there til the end,” with no idea what came in the first half and watched on a tiny screen, then 18-40 “rewatches” of it because of different ratios and frame rates. So instead of experiencing, say, a new Cronenberg work of art on the big screen in continuity on the big screen and taking it all in, you’d see the last 45 minutes of it over the course of 16 hours, then have to QC that 45 minutes a good two dozen times all in the course of four days…. all about 2, 3 weeks before it’s released.
It makes me want to commit suicide.
It makes me want to commit suicide.
I worked in a medical office where a lot of our patients were showbusiness people. They informed me if I wanted to become apart of Hollywood and work in the movies I should involve myself with AFI by any means. I have no idea what you seriously want to do but know that could be a place to start with less bullshit than you’ve been through already.
Somehow, Oldman does not have an Oscar nomination. Really, how badly despised does he have to be to not.even.be.nominated.
I know that he screwed himself by comparing Spielberg to Goebbels- but what a minor offense that seems like these days. SID AND NANCY. IMMORTAL BELOVED. THE CONTENDER. Makes no real sense.
The new Cronenberg is being distributed in the U.S. by Sony Classics. That’s another movie I’m really psyched for.
Rashad: “Anyone think they’re trying to sell Oldman a bit too hard as the spy? I hope that isn’t the case. ”
Well, since Oldman’s playing Smiley, the hero of the picture (and that of the entire series of ‘Smiley’ novels), which fact is fairly familiar to anyone with a sense of pop culture outside of Bay moobies…. no, I wouldn’t worry about that being the case.
Unless you’re an idiot, that is.
Looks terrific, nice to see Benedict Cumberbatch in there too. But yeah, the running time could be an issue. If it’s 150 mins plus it may work, if it’s been pruned to 120 mins or under – not so sure.
Bullshit. Ask anyone down the street if they know who Smiley is and they wouldn’t know. Please don’t talk like it’s some worldwide cultural phenomenon.
What the fuck is a Benedict Cumberbatch?
Interesting that, once again, your tactic is to be proud of your ignorance.
No, the young “Rashads” of the world indeed won’t know of him. But you ain’t the target market.
Which is readers and adults, who are likely familiar with LeCarre. If you know him, you know who Smiley is.
So the answer remains “No”. And between you and the marketers of the film – *they* aren’t the idiot factor here.
i always like a good detectives movie but this one is over the edge…
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