"Sherlock Holmes: The Game of Shadows" is a new work by the talented director Garridge. The story is based on the Cold War and is adapted from a well-known American TV series. Witty and humorous dialogue. The story follows two agents of the "Unified Command for Law Enforcement" (UNCLE) against the enemy organization "THRUSH".
The top intelligence agencies of the CIA and the GPU have set up secret bases around the world to collect intelligence, including Napoleon Sulow (Henry Cavill) of the CIA and Ilya Kolyagin (Amy Hammer) of the Soviet GPU. ) is the most powerful intelligence officer of the two countries. They know each other's details very well, and they don't want to kill each other all the time.
But the superiors on both sides ordered them to work together, because news came out that the Nazi remnants were still active in secret, and even held nuclear weapons in their hands, with the aim of destroying the balance of terror between the United States and the Soviet Union, and plunged the world into a third world war. , their only clue is the daughter of a missing German scientist, who is the only key to their infiltration into the secret organization, and they must race against time to find this scientist through his daughter as soon as possible, in order to prevent this global catastrophe occurred. But before that happens, these two improbable partners must find a way to live together in peace to possibly save the world from a crisis.
【Behind the Scenes】
◆ Tom Cruise was originally scheduled to play Napoleon Solo, one of the protagonists, but he chose to withdraw in order to concentrate on filming "Mission Impossible 5: The Uncharted Nation".
◆ The original Henry Cavill was considered for the role of Illya Kuryakin, who succeeded Cruise as Napoleon Solo.
◆ Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ryan Gosling, Alexander Karsgard, Robert Pattinson, Michael Fassbender, Bradley Cooper, Leonardo Deckard Prio, Joel Kinnaman, Chris Pine, etc. are all considered candidates to play Napoleon Solo.
◆ The two male protagonists in the film have stand-ins, but Hammer prefers to complete the action scenes by himself. "He (Hammer) is so hard that the stand-ins have nothing to do."
◆ In the film, Illya Kuryakin uses a modified Walther P38 pistol, which is a tribute to the old TV series of the same name in the 1960s.
◆ Illya Kuryakin was played by David MacKellen in the original TV series of The Secret Service. Later in "NCIS", Mark Karen's Donald Maillard was described as "looking like Illya Kuryakin when he was young".
◆ “UNCLE” is an acronym for “United Network Command for Law and Enforcement”.
◆ UNCLE is an independent intelligence organization that is not affiliated with any government or agency. The setting of Kingsman in the film "Ace Agent" released in 2015 is a tribute to UNCLE.
◆ But unlike Kingsman, UNCLE personnel come from various countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Greece, Spain, Italy, Yugoslavia, and even Russia. Its headquarters are located near the United Nations headquarters in Manhattan, New York.
◆ UNCLE's main enemy is the international criminal organization THRUSH, the "Technological Hierarchy for the Removal of Undesirables and the Subjugation of Humanity".
◆ Steven Sderberg was originally scheduled to direct the film, but he withdrew due to disagreements with the producer in terms of production funding and actor selection.
◆ George Clooney was also a candidate to play Napoleon Solo, but he withdrew due to health issues.
◆ Armie Hammer watched the original TV series before the film started, but Henry Cavill chose not to watch it, so as not to let the old version affect his performance.
◆ Mia Wasikowska, Emily Aklark, Felicity Jones, Sarah Gadon, Gemma Arterton, Alice Eve, etc. who have participated in the role of Gaby Teller audition. It ends up being played by Alicia Vikander ("Ex Machina") from Sweden.
◆ Director Guy Ritchie took inspiration from the film Tiger and Leopard (1969), trying to find a balance between humor and seriousness to achieve "cross-genre".
◆ "Secret Agent" refuses to "advance with the times" and still assumes the Cold War era as a background, in order to "have a world of its own, with a sense of realism and atmosphere" to distinguish it from the "Bourneville" series and other spy films Come on.
◆ Screenwriter Lionel Wigram stated that part of the reason for choosing Italy as the film's background was that "it was the world of La Dolce Vita, the world of Fellini and Antonioni" and that "it seemed like a very sexy and interesting place back then (in the 60s). and glorious times".
◆ In the old TV series, Kuryakin and Solo are numbered 2 and 11 respectively, which means that Kuryakin is the boss of the latter. But the TV station didn't like the idea of Americans doing things under the Russians, turning the relationship between the two into an equal footing.
◆ Also very popular in the Argentine TV drama "Secret Agent". In the 1990s there was a famous Argentine rock group called Illya Kuryakis & The Walderramas.
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