New Images from Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy with Oldman, Hardy and Firth

Based upon master spy novelist John le Carré novel of the same name, Tinker, Tailor, Solider Spy may be one of those films that doesn’t fall on the radar of most moviegoers this year, but probably should. The film stars Gary Oldman, Tom Hardy and Colin Firth…with a supporting cast that includes Mark Strong, Ciarán Hinds, Benedict Cumberbatch, David Dencik, Stephen Graham, Toby Jones, and John Hurt.
Several new images from the film have been released, thanks to The Playlist, which you can check out to your left and below.
Quite apart from the amazing cast (which should automatically tell you something), le Carré’s story is itself one of the greatest espionage tales of the past century. In a nutshell, the thriller is set during the Cold War and follows a retired spy named George Smiley (Oldman) brought in to find a suspected mole within the British intelligence agency MI6.
Unlike James Bond — which is artificially pumped up on glamor and action (not that we don’t love it anyway!) — le Carré’s story focuses on a more real world approach to spy-craft, with plots that are woven intricately.
Producer Doug Urbanski reported earlier that the Universal Pictures film had been invited to open the Venice Film Festival and that it was a “very serious Oscar contender.”
The only other time “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy” appeared on screen was as a PBS miniseries back in 1979, starring Alec Guinness as Smiley.
The Tomas Alfredson-directed film is scheduled for release in the UK in September and in North America in October or November.