Keira Knightley leads an all-star British cast in Official Secrets, a riveting, if not sometimes pedantic, political thriller.
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History moves quickly these days, which is perhaps one of the reasons why Official Secrets, a political drama set in the lead up to the Iraq War, already feels like the ancient kind. It's not, of course. The beginning of the century was not that long ago and the effects of the decision to invade Iraq are still being felt today, a reality that makes this just-period film vital political viewing for anyone unfamiliar with Katharine Gun and the courageous choice she made in trying to stop the Iraq War before it started.
Official Secrets stars Knightley as real-life whistleblower Katharine Gun, a former translator for Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters. In 2003, Gun leaked an intelligence memo detailing the Nsa's request to Britain for help in collecting compromising...
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History moves quickly these days, which is perhaps one of the reasons why Official Secrets, a political drama set in the lead up to the Iraq War, already feels like the ancient kind. It's not, of course. The beginning of the century was not that long ago and the effects of the decision to invade Iraq are still being felt today, a reality that makes this just-period film vital political viewing for anyone unfamiliar with Katharine Gun and the courageous choice she made in trying to stop the Iraq War before it started.
Official Secrets stars Knightley as real-life whistleblower Katharine Gun, a former translator for Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters. In 2003, Gun leaked an intelligence memo detailing the Nsa's request to Britain for help in collecting compromising...
- 8/21/2019
- Den of Geek
The trailer for a film based on the true story of Gchq whistleblower Katharine Gun, called Official Secrets, has been released. Gun was working as a translator in 2003 when she leaked a confidential email to the Observer revealing Us plans to spy on the Un security council. Knightley tries to stop the Iraq war in the thriller, which is released in British cinemas this autumn and in America in August. The British actors Matt Smith, Matthew Goode and Rhys Ifans star as Observer journalists Martin Bright, Peter Beaumont and Ed Vulliamy...
- 6/12/2019
- The Guardian - Film News
As the UK’s Brexit political thriller plays out in real time, IFC Films has set a release date for director Gavin Hood’s take on another one from 15 years ago. Official Secrets, the story of Iraq-invasion whistleblower Katharine Gun, will hit select theaters on August 23.
The film, which premiered at Sundance in January, stars Keira Knightley as Gun. Charged with breaking the Official Secrets Act in Britain, and facing imprisonment, she reaches out to Ben Emmerson (Ralph Fiennes), one of the top lawyers in the country, to take her case and defend her actions. With her life, freedom and marriage threatened, Gun risks everything by leaking a classified email to the press in the hope that this simple act could help halt an unjust war.
The pic also stars Matthew Goode, Adam Bakri and Matt Smith as journalist Martin Bright, who first publicly broke the news about the memo.
The film, which premiered at Sundance in January, stars Keira Knightley as Gun. Charged with breaking the Official Secrets Act in Britain, and facing imprisonment, she reaches out to Ben Emmerson (Ralph Fiennes), one of the top lawyers in the country, to take her case and defend her actions. With her life, freedom and marriage threatened, Gun risks everything by leaking a classified email to the press in the hope that this simple act could help halt an unjust war.
The pic also stars Matthew Goode, Adam Bakri and Matt Smith as journalist Martin Bright, who first publicly broke the news about the memo.
- 4/2/2019
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
As Hollywood re-litigates Dick Cheney’s influence on the launch of the Iraq War with “Vice,” here’s Gavin Hood’s addendum from across the Atlantic about a forgotten story that could have prevented the disaster. “Official Secrets” traces the 2004 criminal trial of Katharine Gun (Keira Knightley), a 28-year-old Mandarin translator for Britain’s secretive Government Communications Headquarters, aka Gchq, who was arrested for leaking a memo from the United States’ National Security Agency requesting U.K. intelligence to spy on five Un Security Council members — “Angola, Cameroon, Chile, Bulgaria and Guinea” — so the Bush Administration could pressure them into voting for a Un mandate that would justify the war against Saddam Hussein.
Before the memo hit her inbox, Gun was already the kind of girl who relaxed by heckling Tony Blair on TV when he prattled on about the search for Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction. “Just because you’re Prime Minster,...
Before the memo hit her inbox, Gun was already the kind of girl who relaxed by heckling Tony Blair on TV when he prattled on about the search for Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction. “Just because you’re Prime Minster,...
- 1/29/2019
- by Amy Nicholson
- Variety Film + TV
True-life spy story gathers pace ahead of March 12 start.
Ralph Fiennes and Matthew Goode have joined Official Secrets for eOne as the reconfigured spy thriller continues to take shape.
Screen broke the story last month that Keira Knightley and Matt Smith would star for director Gavin Hood as Sierra/Affinity launched pre-sales in Berlin.
Principal photogrphy is set for Monday (March 12) in Yorkshire, England. eOne will oversee production and will finance the project with Screen Yorkshire and Melissa Shiyu Zuo through her Gs Media.
eOne will distribute directly in Canada, UK, Australia/New Zealand, Germany, Benelux and Spain. Sierra/Affinity...
Ralph Fiennes and Matthew Goode have joined Official Secrets for eOne as the reconfigured spy thriller continues to take shape.
Screen broke the story last month that Keira Knightley and Matt Smith would star for director Gavin Hood as Sierra/Affinity launched pre-sales in Berlin.
Principal photogrphy is set for Monday (March 12) in Yorkshire, England. eOne will oversee production and will finance the project with Screen Yorkshire and Melissa Shiyu Zuo through her Gs Media.
eOne will distribute directly in Canada, UK, Australia/New Zealand, Germany, Benelux and Spain. Sierra/Affinity...
- 3/8/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
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