Overview
- Filming began Monday on Legacy of Spies, an eight-part BBC and MGM+ series drawn from The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and A Legacy of Spies.
- Dan Stevens joins the cast as Bill Haydon, with Agnes O’Casey as Liz Gold and Felix Kammerer as Hans-Dieter Mundt.
- Matthew Macfadyen leads as George Smiley alongside Charlie Hunnam as Alec Leamas, Daniel Brühl as Josef Fiedler, and Devrim Lingnau Islamoğlu as Doris Quinz.
- The plot centers on a risky effort to move Stasi documents to the West as rival operatives hunt the leak and George Smiley directs operations from the sidelines.
- The Ink Factory produces in co-production with Amusement Park Film, with releases planned on BBC iPlayer and BBC One in the UK and on MGM+ in the U.S., and no premiere date announced.