Anyone else looking forward to Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy?

I have to say that, from what I've seen so far, it looks marvelous!



The man he knew as “Control” is dead, and the young Turks who forced him out now run the Circus. But George Smiley isn’t quite ready for retirement-especially when a pretty, would-be defector surfaces with a shocking accusation: a Soviet mole has penetrated the highest level of British Intelligence. Relying only on his wits and a small, loyal cadre, Smiley traces the breach back to Karla-his Moscow Centre nemesis-and sets a trap to catch the traitor.

A http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=81468">new trailer was released today prompting this post but it turns out that it's just a shorter version of the http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aco15ScXCwA">old trailer with no new footage.

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is John le Carré’s novelisation of his experiences of the revelations in the 1950s and the 1960s which exposed the Cambridge Five traitors, among them Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, Anthony Blunt, John Cairncross and Kim Philby, as KGB moles employed by the SIS.

The film is scheduled to compete in competition at the 68th Venice International Film Festival in September. StudioCanal's British subsidiary Optimum Releasing will distribute the film in the United Kingdom, where it is set to be released on 16 September 2011. American rights were acquired by Universal Pictures, which have a permanent first-look deal with Working Title, and which passed the rights to their subsidiary Focus Features. Focus plan to give the film a wide release in the United States on 18 November 2011.

Alec Guiness OWNED the George Smiley role. Looks like the re-make has a good cast, though......

Wait, are you telling me that Alec Guiness was in something before Star Wars? :rofl:

I ordered as many of them as possible from Netflix. He was in several of those.

The Ladykillers for sure...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ealing_Comedies

Something about Jonathan Swift.
Forgettable, but I like him in movies.

That seems to be most of what's done now.

I have the original in my Netflix- I'll bump it up and get started.

even the bit parts are played by A-List actors.

Hard to believe he is an old enough man to play the part but the cast look outstanding. Interested in Benedict Cumberbatch after seeing him as Sherlock Holmes.

He is 53 so I think he's plenty old enough to play Smiley.