Benedict CumberbatchandRachel Brosnahanare two very talented actors whom we happen to largely know in two iconic roles with two iconic lewks — Cumberbatch as Doctor Strange and Brosnahan as the marvelous Mrs. Maisel. Wanna see these two thespians, alongside a game cast, don some new duds in a new environment? Check out the first images fromThe Courier(which first debuted at Sundance 2020 asIronbark) below.
The Courier, which will likely become your dad’s new favorite movie, is a Cold War thriller starring Cumberbatch as a businessman turned spy Greville Wynne andMerab Ninidze(Without Remorse) as Russian asset Oleg Penkovsky (codename: Ironbark) who attempts to mitigate the looming Cuban Missile Crisis. Alongside Cumberbatch, Brosnahan, and Ninidze are starsJessie Buckley(I’m Thinking of Ending Things),Angus Wright(The Witches), andKirill Pirogov. It’s directed byDominic Cooke(The Hollow Crown) from a screenplay byTom O’Connor(The Hitman’s Bodyguard). And in its setting, time period, and emphasis on the ways average people helped fight the oddness of the Cold War, it reminds me very much ofBridge of Spies,Steven SpielbergandTom Hanks' slept on Cold War drama. Color me curious for this dramatic true story.
The Courieris scheduled to be released March 19. Check out the first images below. And if you’re still intrigued about the film, here’sour Sundance reviewandour interview with Brosnahan, Ninidze, and Cookeback when it was still calledIronbark.
