Ralph Fiennes Joines Tomas Alfredson's 'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy'; Firth, Oldman And Fassbender Confirmed

Let the Right One In director Tomas Alfredson has been at work assembling an adaptation of the novel Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy from author John Le Carre. A month ago we heard that Gary Oldman was set to star, with possible co-stars Michael Fassbender, Colin Firth and David Thewlis.

Sadly, David Thewlis won't be part of the lineup, but the other three names are now confirmed along with a new addition: Ralph Fiennes.

Variety says the film will shoot in London in October, but at this point we don't have any new info about the script by Peter Morgan or the characters that will be associated with the cast.Previously:

The story has retired intelligence agent George Smiley (Gary Oldman) being called back to serve when a high-ranking member of MI6 is suspected of being a Soviet mole. I still hope that Le Carré and Morgan kept the jargon that was used in the novel; Le Carré called MI6 'the circus', black bag ops were 'scalphunters' and American agents were 'the cousins'.

Tinker, Tailor, Solider, Spy has been adapted twice before: by the BBC for television in 1979 with Alec Guinness starring as George Smiley, and then by BBC Radio 4 in 1988. A 1982 BBC mini-series later adapted Smiley's People (again with Guinness), the third book in the trilogy, but the middle chapter has never made it to screen. The shoes of Alec Guinness will be difficult to fill, and I'd initially hoped for someone like Bob Hoskins, but Gary Oldman could easily nail this, too.