The winner of Oscar and former Bond villain, Rami Malek, plays an unlikely action hero in the spy thriller The amateur.
The film is based on Robert Littell’s book and film in 1981 of the same name.
The remake 2025 features Malek like Charlie Heller, a CIA decoder with an IQ over 170, who works in the deepest depths of Langley and lives in a perfect country house with his loving wife Sarah, played by Rachel Brosnahan. Their happy life ends suddenly when Sarah is taken hostage and killed during a business trip to London. Charlie struck with sorrow finds the authors, but in his astonishment, his superiors refuse to take measures. Charlie makes the bosses sing to obtain a specific training for the mission and puts himself on a world man hunt for revenge.
“I was watching Daniel Craig. I said,” How can I do that? “I have to do it in my own way, and I will have to do it in an unexpected way,” Malek, who played the antagonist Lyutisifer Safe in “no time to die,” the amateur “in London said on Monday.
“I like to make unexpected and unpredictable characters, playing and creating them. And here is a story with a heart and center. It has a unique circumstance in which it has been pushed, and no one thinks that it is capable of what it does. It is something that is extremely compatible for us,” said Malek.
Malek, who also produced the film, said that the themes of the original film still resonate four decades later.
“It was a cold war film, and I think there are elements of this period that still exist today. So I think it is a very relevant story. Any story of the oppressed is relevant for our time and someone who tells the truth to fuel the way Charlie does, it is important to have this big screen from time to time,” he said.
Veteran actor Laurence Fishburne plays Henderson, who is responsible for preparing the field of lean technology. The two discover their differences but also mutual respect during Charlie’s trip to avenge the death of his wife.
“The public can expect not to be able to understand this. Many twists and turns,” said Fishburne.
Directed by James Hawes and with also Caitriona Balfe, Holt McCallany and Jon Bernthal, “The Amateur” begins its world theatrical deployment on April 9.
