|
Spy
game
|
Movie
| Book
| Author
| Director
& cast
|
Book:
Spy game (2001)
Movie: Spy game (2001)
Official movie website:
http://www.spygame.net/
Premise
movie:
"A thinking person's thriller, Spy Game employs dense
plotting without sacrificing the kinetic momentum that is director
Tony Scott's trademark. The film has the
Byzantine scope of a novel, focusing on veteran CIA operative Nathan Muir (Robert Redford),
whose protégé Tom Bishop (Brad Pitt) is scheduled for execution in a
Chinese prison. It's Muir's last day before retiring (cliché
alert!), and Bishop is being deliberately sacrificed by oily CIA
officials to ensure healthy trade with China. Muir has 24 hours to
rescue Bishop and his perfunctory love interest (Catherine
McCormack), and Spy Game connects the mentor's end-run strategy to
flashbacks of his student's exploits in Berlin, Beirut, and beyond.
Ambitious but emotionally bland--and not as exciting as Scott's
Enemy of the State--Spy Game offers pass-the-torch humor between
leather-faced Redford and pretty boy Pitt, and although their
dialogue is occasionally limp, the movie compensates with efficient
style and substance."
from:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005JKBC/
103-7170189-4092622?v=glance
back
to top
Premise
book:
This movie is probably not
truly based on a book, but more a book based on a movie.
back
to top
Author:
Unfortunately, we couldn't find much information about Michael Frost
Beckner, besides the fact that he is a screenwriter and wrote the
screenplays for Spy Game (together with David Arata), Point Blank,
Firestorm and Sniper.
back
to top
Director:
Tony Scott
Cast:
Robert Redford (Nathan D. Muir), Brad Pitt (Tom Bishop),
Catherine McCormack (Elizabeth Hadley), Stephen Dillane (Charles
Harker), Larry Bryggman (Troy Folger), Marianne
Jean-Baptiste (Gladys Jennip), Matthew Marsh (Dr. William Byars), Todd Boyce
(Robert Aiken) and others.
back
to top
|
