Award-winning director signed on for Tinker Tailor
Swedish director Tomas Alfredson has signed on to direct an adaptation of John Le Carré’s Cold War spy novel, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, for Working Title Films.
Alfredson, director of vampire movie Let The Right One In, will start shooting next year. It will be his first English-language film. The feature will be produced by Working Title’s co-chairmen Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner.
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy tells the story of a retired British intelligence officer who is asked to seek out a Russian spy in the senior ranks of his old agency. It was made into a BAFTA-winning and Emmy-nominated TV series, starring Alec Guinness, in the seventies.
Bevan said: “The timing is right for a new screen version of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy so it’s great for us to…have Tomas on board. We’ve no doubt he will bring a unique vision to the material.”
Alfredson, who is a former member of comedy troupe Killingganget, won the Best Narrative Feature award at the Tribeca Film Festival for horror film Let The Right One In. He also made award-winning short film Screwed in Tallinn and the 2005 film Four Shades of Brown.