When a terrorist escapes from MI5 custody during a routine handover, counterterrorism director Harry Pearce (Peter Firth) is blamed Soon after, when Pearce disappears off a bridge into the Thames river, an ex-MI5 operative and Pearce's former protégé Will Crombie ("Game of Thrones" star Kit Harington) is called in to help uncover what happened. With a devastating attack on London imminent, Will finds himself on the trail of a conspiracy that stretches from Vietnam to the Mediterranean.
"Zero Dark Thirty" co-star Jennifer Ehle will play the role of Dame Geraldine Maltby who is a part of MI5, though it's not specified in what capacity. Elyes Gabel and Tuppence Middleton join the cast for the first time. Tim McInnerny is reprising his role as Joint Intelligence Committee Chairman Oliver Mace.
Bharat Nalluri will helm from a script by Jonathan Brackley and Sam Vincent
Nalluri says that making the leap to the big screen has allowed them to expand the story using a much bigger scale: "We're running from Moscow to Berlin to London. It's a story of the old world and new world. The toy box is out for this one. We've got motorbikes, attacks on convoys, huge sniper sequences in the middle of London. It's set piece after set piece."
Since the show wrapped in 2011, recent world events have allowed them to use things "plucked from the headlines". Nalluri says: "When we closed the show in 2011, thinking we'd mined everything. But then it kick-started again. You've got Julian Assange hanging out in the Ecuadorian embassy, Chelsea Manning, guys grinding computer discs in The Guardian's basement, home-grown Jihadists, email hacking, spying on the Germans, Syria... it's an unbelievable stew."
Jane Featherstone and Stephen Garrett will produce.
The film is slated for release sometime in 2015.
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