NOTE: I have been informed the music in the trailer comes from the X-Men First Class score by Henry Jackman, the track is titled “Frankenstein’s Monster” and can be listened to here.
This new UK trailer for Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is the first trailer for the film I have actually watched and I have to assume the previous ones were cut together much, much better based on the acclaim they received and in that case I’m glad this is the first one I watched because it doesn’t raise my already high expectations any higher. And is it just me, or does it really seem to have something of an Inception-vibe to the music and the way the trailer is cut? Oh, and what’s with the awful voice over?
The film is based on the 1970s-set, John le Carre novel of the same name, and centers on George Smiley (Gary Oldman), a recently retired MI6 agent, who is doing his best to adjust to a life outside the secret service. However, when a disgraced agent reappears with information concerning a mole at the heart of the Circus, Smiley is drawn back into the murky field of espionage. Tom Hardy plays the British agent Ricki Tarr, Colin Firth plays Bill Haydon, one of the British intelligence officers suspected of being a Russian spy and Mark Strong plays Circus agent Jim Prideaux.
It’s also been recently revealed that le Carre himself will have a cameo in the film, which is directed by Let the Right One In helmer, Tomas Alfredsson. The cameo won’t be anything major, as he will reportedly be seen standing next to a spy dressed as Lenin at a party.
In the same piece le Carre comments on the new film with glowing praise for Oldman saying, “Through my very personal prism, it is a triumph. And if people write to me and say, ‘How could you let this happen to poor Alec Guinness,’ I shall reply that, if ‘poor Alec’ had witnessed Oldman’s performance, he would have been the first to give it a standing ovation. I’m very proud to have provided Alfredson with the material, but what he made of it is wonderfully his own.” Okay, so that raised my expectations far more than this trailer and I haven’t even seen the Guinness original and have been debating whether I should watch it before or after seeing the new one. I think I’ve decided on after…
You can check out the new trailer directly below and if you would like to see the previous trailers or check out my gallery of posters and images from the film click here. The film hits domestic theaters on November 18, but will arrive in Blighty two months earlier on September 16.
