{"id":212078,"date":"2025-12-02T22:08:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T22:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/212078\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T22:08:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T22:08:13","slug":"john-le-carres-legacy-of-spies-lands-at-bbc-charlie-hunnam-cast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/212078\/","title":{"rendered":"John le Carr\u00e9&#8217;s &#8216;Legacy Of Spies&#8217; Lands At BBC &#038; MGM+; Charlie Hunnam Cast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/legacy-of-spies\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Legacy Of Spies<\/a>, a TV series based John le Carr\u00e9\u2019s series of novels, has landed at the BBC in the UK and MGM+ in the U.S, it was announced Tuesday. Additionally, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/charlie-hunnam\/\" id=\"auto-tag_charlie-hunnam\" data-tag=\"charlie-hunnam\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Charlie Hunnam<\/a> (Monster,\u00a0Sons of Anarchy),  Daniel Br\u00fchl (Inglorious Basterds, Rush), and Devrim Lingnau Islamo\u011flu (The Empress) join <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/matthew-macfadyen\/\" id=\"auto-tag_matthew-macfadyen\" data-tag=\"matthew-macfadyen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew Macfadyen<\/a> in the series, which is slated to begin production in early 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/the-ink-factory\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Ink Factory<\/a>, which owns the rights to le Carr\u00e9\u2019s work, is producing and Fifth Season is distributing the drama. The series was<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/03\/matthew-macfadyen-legacy-of-spies-tv-series-george-smiley-1236325257\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> first reported to being shopped<\/a> in March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHunnam will play British intelligence officer Alec Leamas opposite Macfadyen\u2019s George Smiley, Br\u00fchl will portray East German spy Jens Fielder and Islamo\u011flu will portray Doris Quinz aka Agent Tulip.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tStephen Cornwell (Message from the King,\u00a0A Most Wanted Man, Unknown) will pen the screenplay alongside Clarissa Ingram, which will be set across the UK, and what was, in the time period of the story, East and West Germany and Czechoslovakia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tLegacy of Spies\u00a0is produced by The Ink Factory, in co-production with Amusement Park Film and in association with 127 Wall Productions and Paramount Television Studios, with Fifth Season handling global sales. Executive producers on the project include Stephen Cornwell, Graham Yost, Simon Cornwell, Michele Wolkoff, Malte Grunert, Chris Rice, Steve Clark-Hall, Matthew Macfadyen, Charlie Hunnam, Joe Tsai and Arthur Wang. Susanne Bier and Mike Lesslie are also executive producers on the first season.\u00a0Executive producers for the BBC are Gaynor Holmes and Nick Lambon. Nick Cornwell is executive producer for the John le Carr\u00e9 estate. Sam Costin will serve as co-executive producer for The Ink Factory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Legacy Of Spies, a TV series based John le Carr\u00e9\u2019s series of novels, has landed at the BBC&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[265],"tags":[46314,18,117,19,17,115812,67965,128],"class_list":{"0":"post-212078","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-charlie-hunnam","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-legacy-of-spies","14":"tag-matthew-macfadyen","15":"tag-tv"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}