AMC has found its male lead for its upcoming miniseries The Little Drummer Girl, the adaptation of John leCarré ‘s spy novel of the same name from director Park Chan-wook (Oldboy). True Blood’s Alexander Skarsgård will be joining Florence Pugh (Lady Macbeth) for the six-episode series.Skarsgård will portray Becker, an Israeli intelligence officer, who ropes Pugh’s Charlie […]
AMC and BBC adapting John le Carre’s The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
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 […]
Book Review – A Legacy of Spies by John le Carre
Ricky Church reviews A Legacy of Spies by John le Carre…John le Carre has had a long career as one of the best spy thriller writers with stories like The Night Manager and The Constant Gardener, but he’s most famous for the creation of George Smiley from stories such as Call for the Dead and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy. […]
