Universal has acquired the domestic distribution rights to Let The Right One In helmer Tomas Alfredson‘s Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy from Studiocanal. [Deadline]
This is one hotly anticipated film, what with Colin Firth‘s new Oscar, Tom Hardy‘s rising star a
nd Gary Oldman‘s staying power as an audience draw (and appearing in triple A roles like Sirius Black in the Harry Potter films and Commissioner Gordon in Christopher Nolan‘s Batman trilogy don’t hurt his rep). Not to mention the fact that director Alfredson’s previous offering was the influential Swedish vampire film Let The Right One In, which has become something of a horror touchstone given that the American remake Let Me In was so well-received, rare for a movie with that kind of pedigree.
Buyers in Berlin were shown several minutes of the film and given the script to read. After a slow round of screenings, The Weinstein Brothers and Summit Entertainment began chasing the film, with bidding rumored to have topped the $5 million mark.
Based on the novel by espionage master John le Carré (The Constant Gardener, The Tailor of Panama), the Cold War-set thriller follows a retired spy (Oldman) brought in to find a suspected spy within British intelligence agency MI6.
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy opens November/December 2011.
Does this sound like a movie you’d like to see? What did you think of Let The Right One In?