A little over a month ago we posted the first international trailer for the film Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, adapted from the 1974 cold war spy thriller of the same title by John le Carré.
Now a second trailer has been released, which we've embedded below.
Set in the 1970s, recently retired MI6 agent George Smiley (Gary Oldman) 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.
Tasked with investigating which of his trusted former colleagues has chosen to betray him and their country, Smiley narrows his search to four suspects—all experienced, urbane, successful agents—but past histories, rivalries and friendships make it far from easy to pinpoint the man who is eating away at the heart of the British establishment.
The film also stars Colin Firth (Bill Haydon, "Tailor"), Mark Strong (Jim Prideaux), Benedict Cumberbatch (Peter Guillam), Ciarán Hinds (Roy Bland, "Soldier"), Toby Jones (Percy Alleline, "Tinker"), and Kathy Burke (Connie Sachs).
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy opens in UK theaters on September 16th, 2011, and in US theaters two months later, on November 18th, 2011.
Thursday, August 04, 2011
Second International Trailer for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Second Season of BBC's Sherlock Won't Air Until 2012
A continuity announcement at the conclusion of the repeats of the first season of Sherlock on BBC indicated that the second season of the series would not air until sometime in 2012. The BBC is quick to point out that no promise was ever made that it would air in 2011, but we were all hoping regardless!
Three episodes are being filmed for the second season, each adapted from a novel or short story in the original canon: A Scandal in Bohemia, The Hound of the Baskervilles, and The Final Problem.
Sherlock stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes and Martin Freeman as his loyal friend Dr. John Watson. The first season is available on DVD from Telemystery: Sherlock.
(Source: Den of Geek)
Wednesday, August 03, 2011
ITV Commissions Endeavor, a Made-for-Television Film Featuring a Younger Inspector Morse
In a press release today, ITV announced that Shaun Evans has been cast as a younger Inspector Morse in Endeavor, a made-for-television film based on the character created by Colin Dexter. (Endeavor is Morse's first name.)
Set in 1965, the storyline follows the hunt for a missing schoolgirl, which draws then Detective Constable Morse back to the place that will define his destiny: Oxford. Side-lined, discredited and at a dead end, and facing down the demons of his past, Endeavour begins his own quest in pursuit of justice, risking all in the hunt for a truth that will haunt him for the rest of his days.
The film begins production this fall in Oxford with an expected air date early next year.
The original Inspector Morse series, which starred John Thaw as the titular character, aired 33 episodes over a period of 13 years from 1987 to 2000.
(Source: ITV)
Tuesday, August 02, 2011
Review: Death at the Chateau Bremont by M. L. Longworth
Death at the Chateau Bremont by M. L. Longworth. An Antoine Verlaque and Marine Bonnet Mystery. Penguin Trade Paperback, June 2011.
The murder mystery in this first of a series is a little thinly plotted — the whodunit and whydunit are fairly obvious early on — but the characters and most especially the setting are interesting, well-developed, and help keep the reader engaged.
Read the full text of our review at Mysterious Reviews: Death at the Chateau Bremont by M. L. Longworth.
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Bryan Gruley's The Hanging Tree Optioned for Film
John Gray, creator of the television series Ghost Whisperer, has optioned the film rights to the crime novel The Hanging Tree by Bryan Gruley, the second entry in the Starvation Lake (Michigan) series of mysteries featuring newspaper reporter Augustus "Gus" Carpenter. Gray intends to direct his own adapted screenplay.
When Gracie McBride, the wild girl who had left town eighteen years earlier, is found dead in an apparent suicide shortly after her homecoming, it sends shock waves through her native Starvation Lake. Gus, executive editor of the Pine County Pilot, sets out to solve the mystery with the help of his old flame and now girlfriend, Pine County sheriff deputy Darlene Esper. As Gus and Darlene investigate, they can't help but question if Gracie's troubled life really ended in suicide or if the suspicious crime-scene evidence adds up to murder.
But in such a small town it's impossible to be an impartial investigator — Gracie was Gus's second cousin; Darlene's best friend; and the lover of Gus's oldest pal, Soupy Campbell. Yet with all the bad blood between Gus and Gracie over the years, Gus is easily distracted by other problems. His employer is trying to push him out, the locals are annoyed that his stories have halted construction on a new hockey rink, and Darlene's estranged husband has returned to reclaim his wife.
When Gus tries to retrace Gracie's steps to discover what happened to her in the eighteen years she was away from Starvation Lake, he's forced to return to Detroit, the scene of his humiliating past. And though he's determined to find out what drove Gracie back home, Gus is unprepared for the terrible secrets he uncovers.
Though the author favors extended backstories and has an obsession with hockey that we do not share, we did enjoy The Hanging Tree, saying that it excels "... in its intricately developed plot that really hits its stride about two thirds of the way through. Just why did Gracie return to Starvation Lake, and did she kill herself ... or was she murdered? A whodunit, howdunit, and whydunit, all wrapped up in one, really exceptional novel ..." (Mysterious Reviews, 2010.)
(Source: Deadline|New York.)
Restore My Heart by Cheryl Norman is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook
MystereBooks is pleased to feature Restore My Heart by Cheryl Norman as today's second free mystery ebook. We don't know how long it will be offered at this special price (typically only until a certain number of downloads have been completed), so we urge you to download it while it is still available for free.
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Restore My Heart by Cheryl Norman
Medallion Press
According to the author's website, this title — the first in the Mustang Sally trilogy — will be free until August 15th, 2011.
About Restore My Heart (from the publisher): Leo Desalvo, a loving husband and father, is dead. It appears he committed suicide, but nothing could be further from the truth. And Leo's wife knows it. Although he'd rather grieve in private, Joe Desalvo agrees to help his mother prove a murder occurred, not a suicide.
Sally Clay desperately needs her auto restoration business to succeed. Not only is it her livelihood, but she's caring for her father. She hopes "Mustang Sally's" will lure him out of his self-imposed exile and back to the world of cars he once loved. But new competition--and the death of her best customer, auto dealer Leo Desalvo--leave her struggling. When Joe approaches Sally to appraise his father's rare, classic sports car, she welcomes thebusiness.
There's something fishy about the car, however, and Sally is beginning to suspect shady dealings in Leo's business. Is Joe involved? And is she becoming involved with Joe? When her long-time friend and employee is murdered, Sally realizes it's too late to back out of the investigation she's inadvertently stumbled into. And it seems it's too late for her heart as well ...
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Review: Lot's Return to Sodom by Sandra Brannan
Lot's Return to Sodom by Sandra Brannan. A Liv Bergen Mystery. Greenleaf Books Trade Paperback, June 2011.
There's not much substance to this fast-reading murder mystery, but it's fun to tag along with the intelligent and feisty Liv Bergen as she pursues the FBI agent assigned to investigate the murder of a young woman at a motorcycle rally. Note: As of the date of this review (August 2nd, 2011), both the Kindle Edition and the Nook Book edition of this book are available to download for free.
Read the full text of our review at Mysterious Reviews: Lot's Return to Sodom by Sandra Brannan.
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The Mystery Bookshelf: Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny, an Armand Gamache Mystery
The Mystery Bookshelf, where you can discover a world of mystery and suspense, is pleased to feature a new crime novel we recently received from the publisher.
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Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny
An Armand Gamache Mystery (6th in series)
Minotaur Books (Trade Paperback)
Publication Date: August 2011
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-62690-7
About Bury Your Dead (from the publisher): It is Winter Carnival in Quebec City, bitterly cold and surpassingly beautiful. Chief Inspector Armand Gamache has come not to join the revels but to recover from an investigation gone hauntingly wrong. But violent death is inescapable, even in the apparent sanctuary of the Literary and Historical Society — where an obsessive historian's quest for the remains of the founder of Quebec, Samuel de Champlain, ends in murder. Could a secret buried with Champlain for nearly four hundred years be so dreadful that someone would kill to protect it?
Meanwhile, Gamache is receiving disquieting letters from the village of Three Pines, where beloved Bistro owner Olivier was recently convicted of murder. "It doesn't make sense," Olivier's partner writes every day. "He didn't do it, you know."
As past and present collide in this astonishing novel, Gamache must relive a terrible event from his own past before he can begin to bury his dead.
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About Louise Penny: She has won the CWA New Blood Dagger, Arthur Ellis Award, Barry Award, Anthony Award, and Dilys Award for her first novel, Still Life, and went on to win the Agatha Award for her Armand Gamache mysteries four years in a row (from 2007 through 2010), as well as the Anthony Award for the Best Crime Novel for The Brutal Telling and a second Dilys Award for Bury Your Dead. Louise lives in a small village south of Montreal. For more information about the author and her books, visit her website at LouisePenny.com.
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Monday Night Jihad by Jason Elam and Steve Yohn is Today's Featured Free MystereBook
MystereBooks is pleased to feature Monday Night Jihad by Jason Elam and Steve Yohn as today's free mystery ebook. We don't know how long it will be offered at this special price (typically only until a certain number of downloads have been completed), so we urge you to download it while it is still available for free.
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Monday Night Jihad by Jason Elam and Steve Yohn
A Riley Covington Mystery (1st in series)
Tyndale House
Jason Elam is a former NFL kicker with the Denver Broncos. There are currently four books in this series, the most recent, Inside Threat, published last month.
About Monday Night Jihad (from the publisher): He thought his deadliest enemy knelt across the line of scrimmage. He was wrong!
After a tour of duty in Afghanistan, Riley Covington is living his dream as a professional linebacker when he comes face to face with a radical terrorist group on his own home turf. Drawn into the nightmare around him, Riley returns to his former life as a member of a special ops team that crosses oceans in an attempt to stop the escalating attacks. But time is running out, and it soon becomes apparent that the terrorists are on the verge of achieving their goal — to strike at the very heart of America.
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Monday, August 01, 2011
New Poster for Drive, Adapted from the Crime Novel by James Sallis
When we posted the green band trailer for Drive a couple of days ago — a red band trailer, which we did not post, came out during Comic-Con — we didn't realize a new poster for the film had been released as well (right; click for larger version).
Drive stars Ryan Gosling as an unnamed Hollywood stunt driver by day, driver-for-hire for the criminal underworld by night. It is adapted from the stand-alone 2005 thriller of the same title by crime novelist James Sallis.
The film, which won a Best Director award at this year's Cannes Film Festival for Nicholas Winding Refn, also stars Bryan Cranston, Ron Perlman, Christina Hendricks, Oscar Isaac, and Albert Brooks. It opens in theaters September 16th, 2011.
