Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (2011)

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Since the announcement this past October, the fact that all 10 seasons of Friends will be coming to Netflix in January has been all over headlines – but the truth is that it’s far from the only big new addition to the digital media site’s huge library. There will also be a number of features that will be heading Netflix’s way next month, and some of them are quite excellent.

"We are working on Smiley’s People with Working Title. It’s still at the development stage - but, yes, the old team of Peter Straughan and Tomas Alfredson is back together," said executive producers Olivier Courson and Ron Halpern. "The same Tinker Tailor actors whose characters would reappear are well aware of what we’re doing. We’re hopeful for a 2014 shoot.”

Producer Eric Fellner says director Tomas Alfredson and his team at Working Title were exploring an adaptation of John le Carre’s novel Smiley’s People as a possible sequel. Le Carre wrote several books with the Tinker Tailor characters, meaning multiple films could be constructed from this universe.

If you are interested in purchasing the film in March, the Blu-Ray will feature the most extensive list of extras, including pocket BLU and BD-Live access. The most extensive features on the Blu-Ray are a set of interviews. Oldman, Firth, Hardy, Alfredson, original book writer John Le Carré and screenwriter Peter Straughan are present. The Blu-Ray will also feature a “First Look” segment about the film, as well as deleted scenes.

The BAFTA Awards may be the British equivalent of the Oscars, but in their picks of nominees for their annual film awards they tend to have a far more international slant. Though homegrown products like Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and My Week With Marilyn racked up impressive numbers of nominations

If Hollywood were to hang up a stocking for Santa this year, it would slowly filling up with one lump of coal after another. This weekend two new releases hit theaters and both were ticket sale disappointments.

We still have a few months before Tomas Alfredson's Tinker, Tailor, Solider, Spy hits US shores, but the film is already a hit internationally. Already out in the United Kingdom, the movie is both wowing critics and audiences, opening at number one its first week and expected to do the same in it's sophomore weekend. As with any project, success equals potential sequel and those gears are apparently now in motion.

When one thinks about spy thrillers, the obvious names that pop up are James Bond, Jason Bourne and Jack Ryan. These movies are typically filled with fast cars, fancy gadgets, and highly stylized action that always ends with the hero triumphing over evil. Tomas Alfredson's Tinker, Tailor, Solider, Spy, however, appears to be a completely different kind of film.

I've never read Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carre and I don't plan to before the Tomas Alfredson film comes out this December. I know the story revolves around a retired MI6 agent named George Smiley (Gary Oldman) who is brought back in order to find a Soviet mole in the organization. I have no idea who the traitor ends up being, but I am hoping one thing: that it's not Mark Strong.

Tomas Alfredson's period spy thriller Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is easily one of our most anticipated films of the fall season, so we were absolutely devastated when it was announced on Monday that that release date has been pushed back from November 18th to December 9th. Normally we would just cry in a corner or bite our fingernails while we waited...

There are still plenty of films left to come out this year, but there are few that I am anticipating more than Tomas Alfredson's Tinker, Tailor, Solider, Spy. Based on the novel by John le Carré, the movie has a stellar cast that includes the likes of Gary Oldman, Tom Hardy, Mark Strong, Colin Firth, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Ciaran Hinds and each trailer we've seen has been better than the last.

I don't think it's too controversial to say that the trailers for Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy have been some of the best we've seen so far in 2011. The previews are atmospheric, mysterious, beautiful and, most importantly, informative about the plot. At no point during either of the previous two trailers did I think to myself, "Gee, I really need an annoying voice-over that will take me out of the film completely."

Speaking of mystery, does Tom Hardy not look weirdly like Brad Pitt in Moneyball in this poster, with the floppy blond hair? Look at this image and tell me they couldn't at least be brothers on some kind of mission together. And even if you're not down with my theory, take a look at the two new posters below

Thankfully the booming score doesn't cover up the film's massive appeal, watching Gary Oldman playing a retired MI-6 spy brought back in to ferret out a mole in his own organization. He's surrounded by the aforementioned murderer's row of talent, so deep that I can't even spot Tom Hardy in the lineup

See those tiny red digits on Oldman's shoulder? That's the UK release date-- September 16-- hidden in plain sight. The text also includes names of characters and numbers that apparently point to plot clues, though since I'm hoping to know as little as possible going into this

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy gathers most of the best actors in Great Britain together on screen and drops them in what appears to be the coolest possible version of a Cold War era spy movie. The film’s first international trailer has arrived, and it’s everything you could hope it would be.

For the last decade almost every British actor you can name has played a part in the Harry Potter franchise. From John Cleese to Kenneth Branagh to Rhys Ifans, J.K. Rowling's wizarding world has prevented many thespians from unemployment. Sadly, the run of Potter films end this summer, but movies like Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy are here to show that there will always be a room for British ensemble pieces.

The newly minted Oscar winner has several projects coming down the pike, including the caper comedy Gambit with Cameron Diaz, but perhaps the most anticipated is Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, a British espionage drama featuring a murderer's row of talent

So many actors have been added by now to the cast of Tomas Alfredson's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, that it's hard to keep track of which

The Swedish film maker parlayed that recognition into a job on his first English language film, Tinker Tailer Soldier Spy which he is currently hard at work on, and will be adding alternate-universe period piece Larklight

The upcoming adaptation of John Le Carre's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy has done an impressive job of rounding up all of the top British talent available. Directed by Tomas Alfredson, the cast already

Miraculously, the producers have managed to replace Michael Fassbender (who's apparently busy shooting X-Men: First Class) with someone equally worthy. The Mail reports that Inception's Tom Hardy

It was reported in early June that Gary Oldman had signed on to play the lead in an adaptation of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, based on the novel

Gary Oldman has begun the second half of his career. Back in the late 80s and the 90s, he was known for one character type: the bat-shit insane psychopath. We watched him shoot people with a shotgun