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AMC and BBC adapting John le Carre’s The Spy Who Came in From the Cold

January 17, 2017 by Gary Collinson

Following their success with The Night Manager, AMC and the BBC are reuniting for another John le Carre adaptation, teaming once again with Ink Factory for a limited series based upon his 1963 novel The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, with Simon Beaufoy (Slumdog Millionaire) set to pen the script.

The Spy Who Came in From the Cold takes place during the height of the Cold War and revolved around a hard-drinking British spy who is sent to East Germany posing as a defector in order to frame an East German intelligence operative as a British double agent.

“Spy is a deep tale of intrigue in one of the most uncertain times in history,” said Joel Stillerman, president of original programming and development for AMC and SundanceTV (via Variety).

The Spy Who Came in From the Cold was previously adapted for the big screen in 1965, with Martin Ritt directing a cast that included Richard Burton, Claire Bloom and Oskar Werner.

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, News, Television Tagged With: John le Carre, The Spy Who Came in From the Cold

About Gary Collinson

Gary Collinson is a film, TV and digital content producer and writer, who is the founder of the pop culture website Flickering Myth and producer of the gothic horror feature film 'The Baby in the Basket' and the upcoming suspense thriller 'Death Among the Pines'.

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