No one will ever put it in a time capsule. Indeed, it seems to be caught in an earlier era - unlike, say, the last two seasons of Homeland, which, for all their nuttiness, speak to our historical moment.Ĭondor is an entertaining show, but it's just a show. You find none of this political topsy-turvy in Condor - at least not in episodes available for preview. Ironically, the right now talks about intelligence service conspiracies, while the left looks to former agency heads like Robert Mueller and John Brennan to tell the truth about what's going on. President Trump and his followers assail the intelligence agencies for being the guardians of what they call the "deep state." This, the argument goes, is a shadowy network of entrenched bureaucrats, high-level politicos and financial elites who defend their power by any means necessary. And in a shift of gender roles, von Sydow's Euro-cool professional killer has morphed into a sociopathic hit woman (played by actress Leem Lubany). The high-tech equipment used to trace Joe in 2018 is vastly more Big Brother-ish than it was in 1975, whose state-of-the-art spyware now seems comically primitive compared to a cell phone. The rogue agents menacing Joe are no longer bent on grabbing Middle Eastern oil fields - a plot reflecting the '70s energy crisis - but obsessed with Islamic terrorism. Then again, it's fun to see how the passing decades have changed things. Yet there's no way that up-and-coming actors can pack the oomph of movie stars who carry themselves like they know they're at the shimmering peak of their fame. Both are quite good in fact, Irons, the son of Jeremy Irons, has never been better. Now, Condor differs from the original movie in several ways, most obviously that Irons and Cunningham can't match the charisma of the alluringly aloof Redford and the spiky Dunaway. He must try to survive long enough to figure out who to trust, who wants him dead - and why. As before, he shanghais a woman - here, a lawyer played by Katherine Cunningham - but, less creepily, she's at least someone he's been on a date with. Joe stumbles across information so volatile it gets all his office mates killed and forces him to run for his life. from New York, the show stars British actor Max Irons as Joe Turner, an analyst who writes terrorist-hunting algorithms for the CIA under the eyes of his uncle Bob (played by William Hurt), an agency bigwig whose in-house nemesis is played by Mira Sorvino. This hall-of-mirrors story has been updated in Condor, a gripping new series on AT&T's Audience Network. If you’re like me, then you can’t help but wonder what that means about this season. Condorwhich I still can’t stop singing to the tune of Convoyhas been renewed for season 2. To escape an assassin (played by Max von Sydow), Redford's character winds up forcibly enlisting a complete stranger (played by Faye Dunaway). Condor S01E08 Review: A Question of Compromise I’m questioning the brain trust behind the cabal’s. One of the most enduringly popular was Three Days of the Condor, a 1975 hit starring Robert Redford as a CIA analyst who becomes the target of his own agency. In the years after Richard Nixon's tarnished presidency, movie screens were flooded with conspiracy thrillers - from Chinatown and The Parallax View to All the President's Men. Hollywood never overdid it more than in the 1970s. "It's a paranoid universe," the spy says, "but don't overdo it." Near the end of Philip Roth's novel Operation Shylock, a Mossad agent makes light of the modern penchant for conspiracy theories. Riley Keough and Gina Gammell also produce via their production company Felix Culpa, following their directorial debut last year with War Pony, which won the Camera d’Or at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival and John Trengrove’s Manodrome, which premiered at Berlin International Film Festivalīarrera plays a woman whose last attempt at love has taken her to being a contestant on a reality TV show. She’s down to the final three to compete for the affections of the show’s leading man, as the show descends into a nightmarish game of psychological warfare.CIA analyst Joe Turner (played by Max Irons) struggles to figure out who to trust and who wants him dead in Condor, a new series on AT&T's Audience Network. Hoult also produces alongside Whitaker Lader via their production company Dead Duck Films which has a first-look TV deal with MRC TV and Civic Center Media. The cast is led by Scream VI’s Melissa Barrera, alongside Lana Condor and Nicholas Hoult. HanWay Films is handling worldwide sales, which it will launch at Cannes this month, with WME Independent and UTA co-repping the film for North America. UK sales outfit HanWay has boarded erotic horror The One, from US writer-director team Kevin Armento and Jaki Bradley, with the film set in the confines of a reality TV dating show. Melissa Barrera, Lana Condor, Nicholas Hoult Source: Paramount / Jonny Marlow / Troy Harvey/AMPAS
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