New images from Tomas Alfredson’s Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy have surfaced over the weekend. Pictured below are Colin Firth, whose character name has not been revealed, and Tom Hardy as “Tricky” Ricki Tarr.

Gary Oldman plays British Intelligence operative George Smiley, whose task is to uncover a Soviet agent who has infiltrated MI-6, the highest echelon in the British Intelligence Services. (This is a larger version of a previously released image.)

Colin Firth would look good wearing sack cloth and ashes so frankly, I don’t care who he plays, I’ll buy a ticket.

I believe I’ve made my feelings for Tom Hardy and that gorgeous mouth plain as well. But with a name like “Tricky” Ricki Tarr and what appears to be an alluring shade of red lipstick on those luscious lips, I do have to wonder what exactly is the nature of the rabbit hole that Smiley must go down to get his man. I suppose I should read the book.

Also in the high-powered cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Ciaran Hinds, Mark Strong, Svetlana Khodchenko, Toby Jones, John Hurt, Stephen Graham and Kathy Burke. The film is slated to open the Venice Film Festival in early September and is set for a UK release on 16 September. No US date has yet been listed.