The updated film version of John le Carré's classic Cold War book "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" with a Peter Morgan adapted script is moving ahead reports The Daily Mail.
The book, and the film as well, will be set in the mid-70's during the height of the Cold War
Gary Oldman will play Smiley (stepping into the shoes of Sir Alec Guinness), a judicious, reserved, middle-aged intelligence expert who is recalled out of forced retirement. His task? To hunt down a Soviet mole in the "Circus", the highest echelons of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6).
Smiley himself is a skilled spymaster with impressive perceptive skills, prodigious memory and is a master of bureaucratic maneuvering and manipulation. On the other hand he's also very plain looking, quiet, not particularly rich and his wife routinely cheats on him.
Colin Firth, Michael Fassbender and David Thewlis are in discussions to play roles as various intelligence heads and bureaucrats whom are suspected of being potential moles.
Shooting kicks off in September directed by Let The Right One In's Tomas Alfredson.
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