EXCLUSIVE:Gary Oldman has found "great joy" in playing the Falstaffian, flatulent-sharing, British espionage operative Jackson Lamb in Apple TV+’s Slow Horses, which has just launched season two. Meanwhile, the Harry Potter star confirmed he will play Harry Truman in one scene in Christopher Nolan’s Oppen…
The Night Managerproducer The Ink Factory is forging a German TV version of John Le Carré'’s A Most Wanted Manalmost a decade after making a feature film version, with Snabba Cashwriter Oskar Söderlund attached as showrunner.
Filmed in German, the TV version will see The Ink Factory reunite with Al…
One of the world's great spy novel authors, John le Carré, took Irish citizenship shortly before his death after becoming disillusioned with England over Brexit, hit son Nicholas says in a new documentary.
The author of novels including The Little Dummer Girl, The Night Manager and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, all of…
Various figures from Hollywood and media took to social media to pay tribute to iconic spy novelist John le Carré, who died at the age of 89 from pneumonia on Saturday night.
Oscar-winning actor Gary Oldman, who starred as George Smiley in the 2011 adaptation of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy directed by Tomas Alfredson…
John le Carré, a prolific novelist whose Cold War spy stories dominated the bestseller lists, has died at age 89.
His family confirmed he had died of pneumonia at the Royal Cornwall Hospital on Saturday night. "We all deeply grieve his passing," they wrote in a statement.
In addition to Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Le…
In bringing to life The Little Drummer Girl, AMC’s six-part adaptation of John Le Carré’s classic thriller, the producing team felt it was best not to confine the shoot to a soundstage.
Florence Pugh, who plays the lead role of Charlie, said that commitment created some compelling sequences for the actors to portray…
The Night Manager sequel is not happening (at least for now), so AMC is going for the next best thing. On the heels of three Golden Globe wins for The Night Manager, based on John le Carré’s novel, AMC and the BBC are re-teaming with The Ink Factory for a limited adaptation of another le Carré's bestselling novel, The…
Paramount TV and The Night Manager producers The Ink Factory are teaming to develop a limited series based on another John le Carré novel, the New York Times bestselling espionage tale The Spy Who Came in From The Cold. Oscar-winning scribe Simon Beaufoy (Slumdog Millionaire) is attached to write the adaptation.
This…
With a great nimbleness, The Night Manager makes change look very good.
"The center of the novel is arms dealing. It was happening in the early 90s, and of course it's happening now," reflects Tom Hiddleston on the updating of John le Carré's 1993 novel for event television. Personified by leads Hiddleston and Hugh Lau…
EXCLUSIVE:The Ink Factory is re-teaming with Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk author Ben Fountain on an original one-hour TV series. Details of the project are being kept under wraps for now, but it represents the latest splashy move for a company that has also closed a round of financing that gives it the capacity…
EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate has closed a deal for U.S. distribution rights toA Most Wanted Man, the Anton Corbijn-directed adaptation of the contemporary thriller novel by John le Carre. Corbijn has wrapped the film, which stars Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rachel McAdams, Robin Wright and Willem Dafoe. Andrew Bovell adapted the…
The Ink Factory, the production company behind A Most Wanted Man, is in advanced talks with Oscar-winning The Departed screenwriter William Monahan to script the adaptation of John Le Carré‘s latest novel, A Delicate Truth. The book tells the story of a man trying to unravel a conspiracy over a counter-terror…