LET THE RIGHT ONE IN Director Plays SPY

It pisses me off that one of the best movies of 2008 is being screw’d twice. First, the Swedish vampire movie Let The Right One In didn’t get nominated for Best Foreign Language Film Oscar and then Matt Reeves (Cloverfield) is going to make an American remake. If I was director Tomas Alfredson, I’d go on a personal vendetta and unleash judgment day but a new gig will keep him from doing what I have in mind.

According to Hollywood Reporter, Alfredson is going to direct TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY for Working Title. It’s an adaptation of a a best selling thriller novel by author John Le Cerre, about the aftermath of the cold war, the spy-hunt within the highest echelons of the British Secret Intelligence Service.
The one who gets to write the screenplay is none other than the great scribe Peter Morgan (Frost/Nixon, The Queen) who also serves as one of the project’s executive producers.
Apparently, there was the British TV version of the story back in the 70s starring the late Sir Alec Guinness as George Smiley the retired former British intelligence officer called in to track down the double agent within the spy agency. I’ve never watched the series. Does any channel out there show the re-runs?
Production for TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY is expected to begin in 2010.

Here’s the brief official synopsis of the book…
“John Le Carre’s internationally famous hero, British Secret Service Agent George Smiley, has a world-class problem. He has discovered a mole–a Soviet double agent who has managed to burrow his way up to the highest level of British Intelligence. Under the direction of Karla, Smiley’s equivelent in the Soviet Union, the agent has already blown some of the most vital secret operations and most productive networks. Now-how can Smiley use a lifetime’s worth of espionage skills to ferret out a spy who posseses them as well?”

“A stunning story of espionage.”– “The Wall Street Journal.”

“Le Carre is simply the world’s greatest fictional spymaster.”–Newsweek