Max Irons, star of TV’s The White Queen and the upcoming Bitter Harvest, has been cast in the new TV remake of Three Days Of The Condor. The TV event will be an update of Sydney Pollack’s iconic 1975 political thriller, which starred Robert Redford in the lead role.
Here’s the plot.
On a seemingly ordinary day, Joe Turner (Robert Redford), a quiet CIA codebreaker, walks into his workplace and finds that all of his coworkers have been murdered. Horrified, Joe flees the scene and tries to tell his supervisors about the tragedy. Unfortunately, he soon learns that CIA higher-ups were involved in the murders. With no one to trust, and a merciless hit man (Max von Sydow) close on his tail, Joe must somehow survive long enough to figure out why his own agency wants him dead.
Deadline reports that the new version sees Turner as an ‘idealistic millennial who secretly joins the CIA hoping to reform it from within. But when everyone in his office is massacred by professional killers, this brilliant analyst is forced out of his ivory tower think tank and into battle with the most dangerous elements in the military-industrial complex. If he is to have any chance of surviving, Joe will have to do things he never imagined himself capable of — and discover that no one knows their true character until they’ve been tested under fire.’
MGM Television, Skydance TV and Paramount TV are behind the new show.
