Lionsgate has released a new poster and trailer for the biographical thriller Red Joan. Directed by Trevor Nunn, the film stars both Judi Dench and Sophie Cookson as Joan Stanley, a character inspired by Melita Norwood who was revealed to be the KGB’s longest-serving British spy in 1999; take a look here…
The year is 2000 and Joan Stanley (Dench) is living in contented retirement in suburbia at the turn of the millennium. Her tranquil life is suddenly disrupted when she’s arrested by MI5 and accused of providing intelligence to Communist Russia.
Cut to 1938 where Joan is a Cambridge physics student who falls for young communist Leo Galich and through him, begins to see the world in a new light.
Working at a top-secret nuclear research facility during WWII, Joan comes to the realisation that the world is on the brink of mutually assured destruction. Confronted with an impossible question – what price would you pay for peace? – Joan must choose between betraying her country and loved ones or saving them.
Red Joan is set for release on April 19th in the UK and features a cast that also includes Stephen Campbell Moore, Tom Hughes, Ben Miles, and Tereza Srbova.