![]() ![]() If only Boynton also had Bastedo’s powers of telepathy and superhuman strength, our nuclear boffin would already be back in Berkshire. Who, ask younger readers? Bastedo, in a series of unrepentantly daft 60s spy shows (The Champions, Department S), played the British secret weapon whose elegant froideur melted the patriarchy on both sides of the iron curtain. With her tailored suits, thick eyeliner and bonkers titfer, Boynton is 2022’s homage to Alexandra Bastedo. Though ridiculed by Bob Dylan, here it makes a grand entrance on the head of Lucy Boynton as Brit spy Jean Courtney, and she looks anything but ridiculous. Just like the glasses making a comeback, perhaps the same is true of the leopard-skin pillbox hat. Then I was bored and frightened at the same time.” Which sounds about right. When asked what it was like fighting in Korea, Hodge has Palmer reply: “First I was bored. It’s not a showy performance, but all the better for that to punch up his rare bons mots. Imagine too that he is as taciturn as Alan Ritchson playing Jack Reacher. Imagine Stephen Merchant was a foot shorter and appropriated Damian Lewis’s pout. ![]() One of the adaptation’s pleasures is also its peril: it invites us to compare Joe Cole’s interpretation with Caine’s.įortunately, Cole is a Harry Palmer for our times. This opening reference to 57-year-old movie eyewear is a surprising gambit by director James Watkins and writer John Hodge, given their creative betrayal elsewhere of the source material. Our hero is in bed in Berlin, while the woman who has been teaching him German, and more besides, waves to him saucily from the bath. Deighton’s original 1962 book has sold 10M copies and sparked a series that spans seven Palmer books, meaning there would be plenty of other material if ITV wished to turn The Ipcress File into a returning franchise.The first thing we see in this new version of The Ipcress File (ITV) is a pair of thick-framed glasses on a nightstand, replicas of those Michael Caine wore in the 1965 film version of the book. Furie’s 1965 film won three BAFTAs and helped cement Caine’s status as a rising screen icon. ![]() His first case is The Ipcress File - a dangerous undercover mission on which Palmer must use his links to a man suspected of kidnapping a missing British nuclear scientist. But spotting Palmer’s potential, and his network in Berlin, an intelligence officer offers him a way to avoid prison by becoming a spy. Palmer is a sharp and savvy operator, with varied side-hustles that ultimately land him trouble with the law for crimes that could mean an eight-year stretch in a grim English military jail. Production will take place in Liverpool and Croatia next year, while ITV Studios is selling internationally.Ĭole, a fast-rising star on the British acting scene, will take on the title role of Harry Palmer, who is serving as a working-class British sergeant in Berlin as the Cold War rages in the 1960s. ![]() ITV Studios is providing a “significant” investment in the series, while other backers include the Liverpool Film Office, Lipsync, Filmgate, and the Finnish National and Regional Funds, with Cofiloisirs Bank cashflowing. ITV Studios is an associate producer.ĭeadline hears that the project has been bubbling away for some time, with Altitude knitting together a patchwork of finance. The Ipcress File is the first major project housed at Will Clarke and Andy Mayson’s Altitude Television, a production arm of the British film and TV company Altitude Media Group, which was behind the release of Asif Kapadia’s Amy and Diego Maradona, as well as Louis Theroux’s My Scientology Movie. Phillip Schofield Stands Down As Co-Presenter On ITV's 'This Morning' ![]()
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