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Post by Ripley on Mar 16, 2016 22:21:55 GMT -5
Starring Hugh Laurie and Tom Hiddleston "From master of suspense, John Le Carré, comes The Night Manager. A new 6-part miniseries event starring Tom Hiddleston and Hugh Laurie. Premieres Tuesday, April 16th on AMC."
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Post by Ripley on Apr 17, 2016 6:33:59 GMT -5
New York Times piece- TWD Zone Site Admin & Owner "Writers, like spies, tend to have trust issues, and David Cornwell, 84, has been both a writer and a spy. Under his own name, he once worked for British intelligence. As John le Carré, he has for the past half-century written labyrinthine novels about espionage and other sorts of subterfuge and imposture, all of which suggest that in this world it’s best to be very, very wary. For the last 25 years, one of the things Mr. le Carré has trusted least has been television. That’s how long it’s been since he last allowed anyone to adapt one of his books for the small screen. But on Tuesday, April 19, a six-part mini-series based on his 1993 novel “The Night Manager” will have its premiere on AMC, and for a cautious operative like him that’s pretty momentous. “The Night Manager,” which stars Tom Hiddleston as a hotel desk clerk recruited by MI6 to infiltrate the dirty business of a suave arms dealer (Hugh Laurie), is a slightly more straightforward story than the first two televised le Carrés, “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy” (1979) and “Smiley’s People” (1982). Those mini-series, each about the length of “The Night Manager,” were based on a couple of his twistiest Cold War thrillers and were so successful, both commercially and artistically, that it seemed for a time that long-form television might be just the right medium for Mr. le Carré’s shadowy chronicles of betrayal..." link |
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Post by TWD Zone Site Admin & Owner on Apr 17, 2016 16:06:12 GMT -5
I'm going to give this one a try.
Two series I'm following are ending this week. Need something new.
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Post by Ripley on Apr 19, 2016 5:29:02 GMT -5
NYT Review if The Night Manager link"...Mr. le Carré has been promoting this six-episode British-American mini-series, shown last month on BBC and here beginning on Tuesday on AMC, and he is an executive producer along with two of his sons. But the screenwriter David Farr and the director Susanne Bier (“In a Better World”) were licensed to change the period (from the first gulf war to the present) and the locations (an evil arms dealer’s yacht becomes a fantastical Spanish villa; Central America becomes the Middle East) and to soften the ending in ways that le Carré aficionados will probably abhor. Despite the updating, the production feels thoroughly old-fashioned. The opening episodes, when the amorality of the arms dealer Richard Roper (Hugh Laurie) is being linked, with the filmmaking equivalent of heavy chalk outlines, to his extravagant lifestyle, feel like a Bond movie without the humor. The middle stages, when the revenge-minded hotel manager Jonathan Pine (Tom Hiddleston) infiltrates Roper’s organization and sets eyes on Roper’s young girlfriend, Jed Marshall (Elizabeth Debicki), play like a stiff British take on a glossy ’80s or ’90s American melodrama — “Against All Odds” or “Revenge,” with Mr. Hiddleston doing a very reserved version of a Jeff Bridges or Kevin Costner romantic lead. ...Published in 1993, “The Night Manager” was Mr. le Carré’s first post-Cold War novel, and you could see him working to fit new sorts of heroes and villains into his framework of murky loyalties and moral uncertainty. Two decades later, the replacements he found already feel quaint (in a world where suicide bombs speak more loudly than spycraft), and the same can be said of this glossy, generic adaptation..." |
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Post by Ripley on Apr 19, 2016 15:15:30 GMT -5
www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/04/susanne-bier-night-manager-interview?mbid=social_twitterThe Night Manager Director Susanne Bier on Why More Women Aren’t Making Spy Thrillers "...What’s your origin story with The Night Manager? Well, firstly I’ve always been secretly envious of anybody who got to touch John le Carré. And then I happened to read the first episode, the very first version of the first episode, and I threw myself into it. I read the book when it came out and I loved it, and there was something that stayed with me from the book, that sort of cat-and-mouse game between Roper and Pine. Also, I’d been wanting to do TV for a while, because at this point in time the writing is so good on TV that as a director you know it’s a very, very tempting medium. I was fascinated by the notion of doing a longer piece. Being able to work for six hours as opposed to two hours, which is a really interesting kind of scale. I wanted to ask you about Olivia Colman’s character, who recruits Hiddleston’s title character into the espionage. She reminds me of Marge Gunderson in Fargo, as they’re both very capable investigators who happen to be pregnant. Was that written into the script, the pregnancy, or was that just a chance thing?,,,
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Post by Kitsune on Apr 19, 2016 15:17:28 GMT -5
I'll probably check it out so I can hear Hugh Laurie's voice again.
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Post by Ripley on Apr 19, 2016 22:27:35 GMT -5
Pilot reviews - www.ew.com/recap/the-night-manager-series-premiere?xid=entertainment-weekly_socialflow_twitterwww.vanityfair.com/style/2016/04/night-manager-elizabeth-debicki-costumes?mbid=social_twitter"... Yes, Elizabeth Debicki admits, costume designers rub their hands together with glee when they see her coming. The six-foot-two Australian actress has cut a fashionable figure across lush period pieces like The Great Gatsby, Macbeth, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., and now as the vulnerable femme fatale at the center of the smash British TV hit The Night Manager. As the spy thriller—which places Debicki’s Jed in the middle of a Hugh Laurie–Tom Hiddleston love triangle—prepares to make its American debut on AMC next week, the actress spoke with Vanity Fair about her meteoric rise from “ramen noodles to Prada dresses.” “I mean it even sounds stupid to hear myself say the first costume designer I worked with was Catherine Martin and she won an Oscar for it, but that was just my very lucky draw of roll of the dice.” Debicki landed the role in The Great Gatsby as Jordan Baker, the sporty, gamine girlfriend of Tobey Maguire’s Nick Carraway, less than a year out of drama school. When she arrived in Los Angeles to audition for director Baz Luhrmann, “I was completely head-to-toe dressed in Prada—because when I landed there were these impeccable Prada dresses hanging in my wardrobe,” Debicki told [The Sydney Morning Herald] of Martin’s first gift to her. “I had never so much as touched Prada before; I could barely afford ramen noodles.”... |
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