George Smiley, John Le Carré’s legendary Cold War British spy last seen on screen in the acclaimed film “Tinker Tailer Soldier Spy” (played by Gary Oldman, who, coincidentally, now stars as another fictional agent in “Slow Horses”), is finally back.
In the first image from the upcoming BBC and MGM+ spy thriller series “Legacy of Spies,” two-time Emmy and BAFTA winner Matthew Macfadyen appears in the iconic role. In another image, Charlie Hunnam is seen as the troubled and world-weary agent-runner and field agent Alec Leamas.
Filming has now wrapped on the eight-part series, adapted from le Carré’s best-selling novel “The Spy Who Came in from the Cold” and based on his 2017 novel “A Legacy of Spies.” Alongside Macfadyen and Hunnam, the series stars Daniel Brühl, Devrim Lingnau Islamoğlu, Agnes O’Casey, Felix Kammerer, Dan Stevens, Jake Dunn, Anjana Vasan, Charlotte Ritchie, Joe Alwyn and Hugh Laurie. The showrunners and writers are Stephen Cornwell (“Message from the King,” “A Most Wanted Man”) and Clarissa Ingram. Michael Lennox (“Say Nothing,” “Crystal Lake”) serves as executive producer and served as lead director.
Charlie Hunnam as Alec Leamas in “Legacy of Spies”
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In “Legacy of Spies,” when Leamas recruits Doris Quinz (Islamoğlu), a young and dynamic East German, to smuggle valuable Stasi documents to the West, it sets off a series of events that threaten to explode in the crucible of Cold War Berlin. In pursuit of Leamas and Doris are Josef Fiedler (Brühl) and Hans-Dieter Mundt (Kammerer), two Stasi agents whose fierce desire to stop intelligence leaks is matched only by their internal rivalry and iron will to outdo each other.
Liz Gold (O’Casey), an idealistic young woman, is drawn into the action. His courage and conviction force Leamas to navigate a world where broken loyalties and betrayal are inevitable. Behind the scenes, the brilliant and taciturn spymaster Smiley orchestrates operations while the elusive Soviet mastermind Karla looms in the shadows, paving the way for a conflict that will define an entire generation. According to the description: “Personal lives become collateral in a ruthless intelligence war, and as the lines between duty and love begin to blur, every emotion becomes a weapon. »
“Legacy of Spies” is set to launch exclusively on BBC iPlayer and BBC One in the UK, as well as on MGM+ in the US, Germany, Spain, Italy, Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, Brazil and Spanish-speaking Latin America. The series will also be broadcast on SBS in Australia, Sky New Zealand and Sky Suisse, as well as on CANAL+ in France and French-speaking territories, Central and Eastern Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa.
The series was filmed primarily in the Czech Republic, with filming also taking place in the United Kingdom and Germany.
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