Filming has now wrapped on the BBC/MGM+ series, also starring Charlie Hunnam. Daniel Bruhl. Dan Stevens and Agnes O'Casey
\n\nJohn Le Carré’s legendary British Cold War spy George Smiley, last seen on screens in the acclaimed film “Tinker Tailer Soldier Spy’ (played by Gary Oldman, coincidentally now starring as another fictitious agent in “Slow Horses”), has finally returned.
\n\nIn the first image from BBC and MGM+ upcoming espionage thriller series “Legacy of Spies,” two-time Emmy and BAFTA winner Matthew Macfadyen appears in the iconic role. In another image, Charlie Hunnam is seen as the embattled, world-weary agent-runner and field operative Alec Leamas.
\n\nFilming has now wrapped on the eight-part series, which is adapted from le Carré’s bestseller “The Spy Who Came in From the Cold,” and drawing on material his 2017 novel “A Legacy of Spies.” Alongside Macfadyen and Hunnam, the show stars Daniel Brühl, Devrim Lingnau Islamoğlu, Agnes O’Casey, Felix Kammerer, Dan Stevens, Jake Dunn, Anjana Vasan, Charlotte Ritchie, Joe Alwyn and Hugh Laurie. Showrunners and writers are Stephen Cornwell (“Message from the King,” “A Most Wanted Man”) and Clarissa Ingram. Michael Lennox (“Say Nothing,” “Crystal Lake”) serves as an executive producer and had lead directorial duties.
\n\nIn “Legacy…
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