Ben and I adore George Smiley. If you haven’t seen the BBC TV series ‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy’ and ‘Smiley’s People’, you should. It’s how we wish TV was still made. Alec Guinness in the role of his life as a retired British spy being brought back to find a mole in the British Secret [...]
One of the most annoying things about our having taken so long in making feature films is that some of the films we always dreamed of making as kids are now being made by other folks. Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg turning to MoCap for TinTin (could still work with the ever-excellent Jamie Bell in [...]
Summer comes along and so does money. Being a freelancer means making much use of such phrases as “make hay while the sun shines” and “feast or famine”. Right now I’m having to feast. I’d rather not.
We’ve spent the vast majority of the past two years writing scripts, and it’s been brilliant. Right now we’re [...]
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