Thrilling First Trailer For Park Chan-wook's Spy Series THE LITTLE DRUMMER GIRL
Park Chan-wook (Stoker, Oldboy) has a new spy thriller series coming to AMC called The Little Drummer Girl and today we have the first great trailer to share with you. The series has quite an impressive cast that includes Florence Pugh, Alexander Skarsgård and Michael Shannon.
The 1970s-set spy thriller follows Charlie (Pugh), “a fiery actress and idealist whose resolve is tested after she meets the mysterious Becker (Skarsgård) while on holiday in Greece. It quickly becomes apparent that his intentions are not what they seem, and her encounter with him entangles her in a complex plot devised by the spy mastermind Kurtz (Shannon). Charlie takes on the role of a lifetime as a double agent while remaining uncertain of her own loyalties.”
This series looks fantastic and I especially like the style of it. I’m a big fan of spy thrillers and this one looks like it’s got style! Park Chan-wook has made some great and brutal films in his career and I’m excited to see what he brings to this series! Co-showunner Stephen Cornwell had this to say in a statement:
“When you actually look at Director Park’s work. There’s a lot in it that speaks to the same themes as Little Drummer Girl in terms of conflicted loyalty, conflicted love, the kind of fusion of a love story in a thriller context and sort of divided identity and divided loyalty all seem to run deep through. And also female empowerment… He’s really built fascinating female characters in his narratives.”
In regards to the 1984 film adaptation the le Carré novel, Pugh said:
“I don’t think anyone was trying to recreate that again. I think, when I spoke to director Park. He’s got such a fresh mind. He’s completely original and I didn’t really want to do any copying. I don’t think it’s any actor’s dream to copy anyone’s performance. You can take it in and grow from it, but I didn’t want to copy.”
The Little Drummer Girl is a six part series and the network will air all episodes in two-hour blocks over the course of three nights, starting on November 19, 2018.