“I need you to do something for me. You have to assume they’re watching you… ”

Holy Schnikey! I’m glad I got out of bed this morning! There’s a new trailer for Tomas Alfredson’s Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and not only is this one much longer, we get to see ALL of the major players, including more Colin Firth, more Mark Strong, more Tom Hardy ( a lot more – obviously I’m not the only one with a Hardy-fetish. He even gets third billing behind Oldman and alongside Firth), more Benedict Cumberbatch and our first peek at Ciaran Hinds. I have already watched it four times.

According to Cinema Blend, the score for the trailer comes from this summer’s X-Men: First Class. I guess they wanted something with some ominous bass that would give it gravity. If this isn’t your cuppa, the trailer won’t change your mind. For those of us already looking forward to the film, the trailer just piles on the excitement that’s been building for months.  The film follows George Smiley, semi-retired spook, who is asked to uncover a Soviet agent within MI6′s echelons. Just from what I’ve seen they seem to have captured Cold War paranoia along with the look of 60′s London.

Also starring every Brit character actor of a certain age, among them,  Toby Jones, John Hurt, Stephen Graham, Stephen Rea, Simon McBurney and Roger Lloyd-Pack, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy  heads to Venice at the end of the month where it will be in competition alongside the likes of George Clooney’s The Ides of March and Roman Polanski’s Carnage. It’s not scheduled for Toronto, however.

“How do you find an enemy who is hidden right before your eyes?”

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy opens in the UK on 16 September but not until November 18 in the US  & Canada.