The winner of the Oscar and former villain of Bond, Rami Malek, plays an unlikely action hero in the espionage thriller The fan.
The film is based on the book and 1981 film by Robert Littell of the same name.
The 2025 remake is starring Charlie Heller, a CIA decoder with an intellectual coefficient of more than 170, who works on the deepest depths of Langley and lives in a perfect country house with his beloved wife Sarah, played by Rachel Brosnahan. His happy life ends abruptly when Sarah is taken hostage and killed during a business trip to London. Charlie affected by pain tracks perpetrators, but to their astonishment, their superiors refuse to take measures. Charlie Chantea to the bosses to obtain a specific training of the mission and is dedicated to a human hunt to take revenge.
“I was seeing Daniel Craig. I said: ‘How can I do that?’ I have to do it in my way, and I will have to do it unexpectedly, “Malek, who played the antagonist Lyutsifer Safin in” No time to die, “he said as he premiered” The Amateur “in London on Monday.
“I like to make unexpected and unpredictable characters, interpret them and create them. And here is a story with one in the heart and in the center. It has a unique circumstance in which it has been pushed, and nobody thinks that it is capable of what it finally achieves. That is something that is extremely reliable for all of us,” said Malek.
Malek, who also produced the film, said the songs of the original film still resonate four decades later.
“It was a film of the Cold War, and I think there are elements of that period that still exist today. So I think it is a very relevant story. Any loser story is pertinent for our time and someone who tells truth to be able to feed the way Charlie does, it is important that he throws himself on the big screen so often,” he said.
Veteran actor Laurence Fishburne plays Henderson, who has the task of preparing the technological work field. The two discover their differences, but also a mutual respect in the course of Charlie’s trip to avenge his wife’s death.
“The public can expect to not be able to solve this. Many turns and turns,” said Fishburne.
Directed by James Hawes and also starring Caitriona Balfe, Holt McCallany and Jon Bernthal, “The Amateur” begins their global theater deployment on April 9.
