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[the_grynne]

Benedict Cumberbatch will play Peter Guillam in the upcoming film adaptation of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, directed by Tomas Alfredson (Let the Right One In). He joins Gary Oldman, Michael Fassbender, Colin Firth and Ralph Fiennes. The addition of Cumberbatch (welcome as it is), is surprising, because where does that leave Fassbender, who many

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[angstbunny]

Oh Joseph Fiennes, can you do anything other than the Brow Furrow of Worry?

Kevin Bacon as Sebastian Shaw. That's... actually kinda awesome.

[the_grynne]

I've come to think of Fiennes as the show-killer. And I never did like him in films, either. He's always come across as so one-note.

I'm drooling at the thought of Bacon in period costume...

[angstbunny]

LOL show-killer. Ouch. And yet true.

It'd be really something different for Bacon, which I am most intrigued to see.

[calculare]

Yay, more Purefoy on screens! :D
Oh no, Joseph Fiennes' sole expression of slight constipation! D:

[the_grynne]

My feelings are decidedly mixed on the project. But at least there's Eva Green.

[calculare]

As long as Fiennes keeps his back to the camera or shares the screen with someone else for the most part.

[rodlox]

James Bond X-Men.
*thinks it over*
that could be realllly good, or it could fall on its face.
(then again, people probably said that about the first Tremors movie - "giant man-eating worms?" - and its got a following all its own since then)

so, long story short, we shall see.