John Le Carré novels 'A Most Wanted Man' and 'A Delicate Truth' movie adaptations

John Le Carré is one of the most respected novelists who wrote many of the very popular espionage novels such as The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, The Tailor of Panama, The Constant Gardener, and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. His latest novel entitled A DELICATE TRUTH will come out this May, and has been immediately targeted for a film adaptation. The production company The Ink Factory has acquired the film rights to A Delicate Truth. Likewise, The Ink Factory has also recently finished work on shooting another Le Carré novel-turned-movie; A MOST WANTED MAN. [click the link below to read the full story]


A MOST WANTED MAN
Director Anton Corbijn is in postproduction on A Most Wanted Man, the spy thriller starring Philip Seymour Hoffman opposite Rachel McAdams. Willem Dafoe and Robin Wright also star in the movie, which is based on John le Carre's acclaimed novel. Screenwriter Andrew Bovell adapted for the big screen.

The novel it is based upon is about a young Chechen ex-prisoner who arrives illegally in Hamburg, practically uneducated and destitute, but with a claim to a fortune held in a private bank. This novel, set in Hamburg where the author was once a British agent and Consul, is based on the contemporary themes of the international war on terror and money laundering, and the conflicting interests of different officers and agents and the laymen more or less affected.

The novel provides an extended, if oblique, critique of the American policy, under President George W. Bush, of extraordinary rendition. Events and characters in the novel are fictionalized and composite versions of the story of Murat Kurnaz, who was a Turkish citizen and legal resident of Germany when he was arrested in Pakistan in 2001; he was detained and tortured, at Kandahar internment facility, and then at Guantanamo Bay, before being released in 2006.

A MOST WANTED MAN is set for UK release November this year.

A DELICATE TRUTH
The Ink Factory is eyeing William Monahan to write the screenplay. He is best known for adapting the Hong Kong thriller Infernal Affairs into an Academy Award-winning screenplay for the Martin Scorsese-helmed crime-drama The Departed. No target release date has been set for this project yet. Here is the synopsis for A Delicate Truth...

A counter-terror operation, codenamed Wildlife, is being mounted in Britain’s most precious colony, Gibraltar. Its purpose: to capture and abduct a high-value jihadist arms-buyer. Its authors: an ambitious Foreign Office Minister, and a private defence contractor who is also his close friend. Kit Probyn, Foreign Office veteran with a safe pair of hands and no previous experience of the dark arts, is to be the Minister’s eyes and ears on the ground. His “red telephone”.

So delicate is the operation that even the Minister’s personal private secretary, Toby Bell, has been kept out of the loop. Suspecting a disastrous conspiracy, Toby attempts to forestall it, but is promptly posted overseas.

Three years on, summoned by Sir Christopher Probyn, retired British diplomat, to his decaying Cornish manor house, and closely watched by Probyn’s daughter Emily, Toby must choose between his conscience and his duty to the Service.

If the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing, how can he keep silent?