![]() Ralph Fiennes gives a masterful performance as Gun’s attorney, Ben Emmerson. Matthew Goode and Matt Smith are great as Peter Beaumont and Martin Bright respectively. The ensemble cast of this film is excellent, but I particularly enjoy Conleith Hill as Roger Alton, it’s a bit of a cameo role but he steals every scene in which he’s present. It illustrates the all-powerful machine that is government and how that machine can destroy whoever it wants pretty damn easily. It also shows the occasional futility in these efforts as well. Official Secrets is an incredibly smart film that celebrates the whistleblowers of the world. This starts off a rollercoaster of events that eventually lead to Katherine Gun being investigated by the British government. The Observer at that time was in full support of a war, so the editor, Roger Alton (Conleith Hill) was not exactly enthused to have this memo in his possession but knew if the story weren’t presented by them, someone else would get it. who then passes it along to Martin Bright (Matt Smith) at The Observer. So she leaks the memo to an anti-war activist friend of hers who then passes it along to an anti-war journalist Yvonne Ridley (Hattie Morahan). Gun, both in real life and in the film, decides that she can’t leave this information private. It stated that via request of the NSA, the UK should join the US in efforts to essentially bully other countries in the UN to start the war in Iraq. While working for GCHQ in 2003, a disturbing memo went companywide via e-mail. Official Secrets is based on the true-life case of Katherine Gun (played by Keira Knightley), a translator for the Government Communications Headquarters, a UK intelligence agency. She’s repped by Gersh, Dalzell & Beresford Ltd and Principal Entertainment LA.“…via request of the NSA, the UK should join the US in efforts to essentially bully other countries in the UN to start the war in Iraq…” Her upcoming credits include Amazon’s Carnival Row and the feature Official Secrets opposite Keira Knightley, which premiered at Sundance earlier this year. Sony TV, where the company is based, co-produces with ABC Studios.īest known for her role as Ellaria Sand on HBO’s Game of Thrones, Varma recently starred in Netflix original film Close opposite Noomi Rapace. executive produce the pilot adaptation alongside Robinson and Greenspan via Doug Robinson Productions. Steinberg, Tillman, Jackson and his G-Unit Film & Television production company and Wright Jr. Anya’s running for Attorney General and Kate’s championing of Aaron will put them into conflict. She’s a hard-charger with aspirations to reform the prison system and advance her own career in the process. Confident, tough, progressive but pragmatic, Kate is the warden of the Pennsylvania prison where Aaron is incarcerated. The show also will, through the window of his ferocious struggle and his complicated relationship with a progressive female prison warden, Kate (Varma), examine the flaws and challenges in our penal and legal systems. His quest for freedom is driven by his desperate desire to get back to the family he loves and reclaim the life that was stolen from him. Written by Steinberg and directed by George Tillman Jr., the untitled fictional project is a serialized legal and family drama that centers on Aaron (Pinnock), a prisoner who becomes a lawyer, litigating cases for other inmates while fighting to overturn his own life sentence for a crime he didn’t commit.
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