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Oct 24, 2024 · The pacing of the script (by Peter Straughan, who wrote the 2011 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) is expertly machined to provide a fresh plot twist every 20 or so minutes, culminating in a...
1 day ago · The actor plays a Vatican cardinal tasked with overseeing the selection of a new pope after the current one dies — and Straughan and Oscar-winning director Edward Berger (“All Quiet on the Western Front”) turn what looks like a conventional, Oscar-baiting awards play into a gossipy, bitchy crowdpleaser where the cardinals hit the vapes and spread secrets about one another.
Oct 24, 2024 · When acclaimed screenwriter Peter Straughan (“Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy,” “The Debt”) received the call to adapt Robert Harris’ novel “Conclave” for the big screen, he knew he had a...
Oct 23, 2024 · Conclave is a taut papal mystery/thriller with visual majesty and operatic moments. BAFTA- winning and Academy Award nominated British screenwriter Peter Straughan (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Wolf Hall) believes the beats of writing can be like music. “I think to some extent with comedy and with thriller elements, it very much starts to ...
Oct 23, 2024 · Already an admirer of Straughan’s from his work on “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” and “Wolf Hall,” Berger jumped on board. Straughan wrote a faithful adaptation of the book — because it ...
5 days ago · The storytelling, with a screenplay by the gifted Peter Straughan (“Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy,” “Frank”), involves the jockeying for position among cardinals with agendas.
Oct 21, 2024 · Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Bridget O'Connor and Peter Straughan, the screenwriters of Tomas Alfredson’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, were nominated for an Academy Award® for their exciting adaption of le Carré’s classic spy novel.
