Bond 23 writer Peter Morgan adapting `Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy`

In other spy movie news, the British production company Working Title has hired Swedish director Tomas Alfredson (Let the Right One In) for their new movie version of the classic John Le Carre spy novel, "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" - reports Rotten Tomatoes.

The story is being adapted by Peter Morgan (The Queen, Frost/Nixon), who is also cowriting the next James Bond movie - Bond 23 due out in 2011.

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, which was also adapted as a popular 1970s British TV show starring Alec Guinness, is the story of a retired British intelligence officer who is brought back to track down a double agent who is hiding somewhere within the highest ranks of the nations's intelligence community. Filming is expected to begin in 2010, probably in the United Kingdom.

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