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The wardrobe looks spot on in the images we've seen so far!
Funnily enough I can't recall Caine's version of Harry wearing the raincoat with a black rollneck as Cole's Harry is here, however one person who did...
Steed without a bowler would have been really strange! Have yet to see the '98 film, but from what I've read and heard, it's not a must watch.
I can't remember Palmer wearing a roll-neck in The Ipcress File, but we do see him wearing one in Funeral in Berlin.
The one in the photos above is a better match with the Paul Whitehouse one though. :-)
Yes, don’t rush to see The Avengers :) It has its moments and annoyingly you can sort of imagine a good version as you watch it. Fiennes is certainly a better M than he is Steed though!
I have to say that I love that scene in Colonel Ross's garden in Funeral in Berlin. There's something quite brilliant about the dialogue in it in particular. I enjoy the contrariness of Colonel Ross liking weeds and Palmer's typically sarcastic answers. I believe it also features in the original novel too though I think Dawlish is his boss there. I have an urge now to dig out my DVD of Funeral in Berlin. I've always liked that film since seeing it on DVD in 2005. In fact it was the first DVD I watched on my first new DVD player that year. It's the most serious espionage story of the three 1960s Harry Palmer films and pretty bleak too in its Cold War Berlin setting with all the duplicity that entails from both sides, even the supposedly allied Israeli side. And of course it was directed by our own Guy Hamilton which is a nice Bond link too. I think it's probably the most faithful to the novel of the three Palmer films. @mtm has alerted me to the fact that the films are now available on Blu-ray so I really must upgrade my DVD copies which includes the Special Edition DVD of The Ipcress File which I bought on the day of its release back in January 2006!
I'm really looking forward to this new TV adaptation of The Ipcress File as a big Harry Palmer fan. I'm quite encouraged by the pictures we've seen so far. I really hope they do it justice.
Same here, haha! It's right up there with Ipcress, IMO. The only thing missing, is Sidney J. Furie's stylish direction (not that there's anything wrong with Guy Hamilton's effort, mind!)
The Avengers seems like a film I will eventually watch, but I'll keep my expectations low :-)
Yes, it's a great little scene between the two (all of them are really), and as far as I remember, it's also features in the novel. The film does stick closer to the novel than Ipcress does, and it does it well, IMO.
I've yet to upgrade my DVDs as well. I watch all three films once a year, which is a good enough reason to make the upgrade to Blu-ray. The BR release of Funeral in Berlin looks quite recent; it's a shame we haven't had a release sooner!
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Cumberbatch? I can’t see that at all to be honest: for one thing he’s posh, which Harry mustn’t be.
Oh, yeah, True...he's posh, much like Tom Hiddleston and Yeah, Palmer is more of a frugal guy. But I just meant looking at an actor of that ilk, like presence I mean. Not necessarily Cumberbatch though.
Yeah. He's a star on the rise. He could still pull it off though.
Oh, Yeah. That would suit him very much. I wonder if there are plans to resurrect The Persuaders!...It was a fun show.
Probably because it was produced by a company that created shows pretty directly aimed at the US market.
Hire a good action director with solid comic timing, and cast Benedict Cumberbatch as Lord Sinclair and Leonardo DiCaprio as Danny Wilde; instant box office smash.
Danny is a tricky one. Downey Jr would have been perfect (and even works with Cumberbatch well) but it would basically just be Tony Stark 2 so not really something he'd be likely to do. I might go... Jamie Foxx? Will Smith would be good but maybe knocking on a bit to be a playboy.
It will be interesting to see what buzz Ipcress gets once it's released. I hope it does well enough to make other Deighton adaptations a possibility.
So yeah: I wouldn't go period with The Persuaders!- and unless you're doing a pastiche of the show itself in a Starsky & Hutch way (which you probably shouldn't because the majority won't have even heard of it) it doesn't need to be, because we still have rich people who go to the South of France and drive expensive cars. You're also just adding cost to the budget which you don't need to. UNCLE at least had to be set in the Cold War, because if you don't there's no contrast between Solo and Kurayakin.
They are currently doubling the capital city of Zagreb for Berlin.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9501877/Tom-Hollander-looks-dapper-transforms-Major-Dalby-Ipcress-File-filming-Croatia.html
https://www.croatiaweek.com/british-tv-series-the-ipcress-file-begins-filming-in-croatia/