Universal Will Distribute‘Tinker, Tailor, Solider, Spy’ From ‘Let the Right One In’ Director Tomas Alfredson | /Film

One of the year’s more promising films isTinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.Tomas Alfredson(Let the Right One In) directed the film fromPeter Morgan‘s script which adapted the novel of the same name byJohn Le Carre. The cold war-era tale stars Gary Oldman as a former MI:6 operative who comes out of retirement to ferret out a mole in the intelligence organization.Benedict Cumberbatch,Ciaran Hinds,Mark Strong,Svetlana Khodchenko,Toby Jones,John Hurt,Stephen GrahamandKathy Burkeall appear in the film, footage of which premiered to great reception at the recent European Film Market in Berlin. It’s one hell of a cast, and Universal evidently agrees.

Universal has taken the rights to the film over competitors such as Summit Entertainment and The Weinstein Company. We don’t have a release date yet (or a trailer, sadly) but you can bet that Universal will happily trumpet the film as the first new release to feature Best Actor Oscar winner Colin Firth. (Though the film was shot prior to his win; Michael Hoffman’sGambitor Park Chan-wook’sStokercould be his first post-Oscar gig; both are tentatively set to shoot this spring.) {Deadline}

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