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DEVELOPMENT
HISTORY:
1/14/17
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11/8/17
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STATUS:
previously in development (2017-2018 season) |
DEVELOPMENT STAGE:
script |
DESCRIPTION:
(from AMC's press release, January 2017) On the heels of three Golden Globe wins for "The Night Manager," AMC & the BBC announced today that they will team up again with The Ink Factory for a television adaptation of John le Carré's best-selling novel "The Spy Who Came in From the Cold." "The Spy" is being distributed internationally by Paramount and adapted by Academy Award winner Simon Beaufoy ("Slumdog Millionaire"). It will be produced in association with Character 7. It is 1962: the height of the Cold War and only months after the building of the Berlin Wall. Alex Leamas is a hard-working, hard-drinking British intelligence officer whose East Berlin network is in tatters. His agents are either on the run or dead, victims of the ruthlessly efficient East German counter-intelligence officer Hans-Dieter Mundt. Leamas is recalled to London- where, to his surprise, he's offered a chance at revenge. But to get it, he may have to stay out in the cold a little longer... "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" was written in 1963, and on release topped the New York Times best seller list for 32 weeks. In 1965, le Carré's novel was made into a film directed by Martin Ritt and starring Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, and Oskar Werner. |
CREW INFORMATION:
· John le Carré as BOOK
· Simon Beaufoy as CRTR/EP
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GENRE(S):
· drama
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STUDIO INFORMATION:
· BBC Worldwide Productions
· Character 7
· Ink Factory, The
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