Director Guy Ritchie commences his mission to shoot an adaptation of The Man From U.N.C.L.E. for Warner Brothers next week, however he still had to enlist one reliable point man to join the team. According to a press release, Mad Men’s Jared Harris, who previously worked with the stylish filmmaker on 2011’s Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows where he played Professor Moriarty, has now been cast in the new project.
Set against the backdrop of the Cold War during the 1960s, The Man From U.N.C.L.E. focuses on a pair of CIA and KGB agents who must ignore past transgressions in order to team-up and stop an insidious international organization with shadowy motives that involve the proliferation of nuclear weapons.
Written by Ritchie and Lionel Wigram, the project stars Henry Cavill (Man of Steel) as the CIA agent and Armie Hammer (The Lone Ranger) as the KGB operative.
The project is poised to film in Great Britain and Italy.