There are three obvious questions about Let The Right One In director Tomas Alfredson intending to direct a feature adaptation of John Le Carre‘s Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy — why, how and who?

Why remake the perfectly satisfying 1979 BBC miniseries based on Le Carre’s 1974 novel? How could the story be satisfactorily compressed down to a typical feature length of 110 or 120 minutes, given that the original series ran 290 minutes? And who under the age of 45 would be interested in seeing it?

July 9, 2009by Jeffrey Wells18 Comments