Oscar -Winner and Former Bond -scut Rami Malek plays an unlikely action hero in the espionage -thriller The amateur.
The film is based on Robert Littell’s 1981 book and film of the same name.
Remake from 2025 stars Malek as Charlie Heller, a CIA decoder with an IQ of over 170, working at the deepest depths of Langley and lives in a picture perfect country house with his loving wife Sarah, played by Rachel Brosnahan. Their happy life suddenly ends when Sarah is taken hostage and killed during a business trip to London. Grief-affected Charlie tracks the perpetrators, but to his amazement, his superior refuses to intervene. Charlie is working down the managers to get mission -specific training and embark on a global manhunt to get revenge.
“I saw Daniel Craig. I said, ‘How do I get it?’ I have to do it my own way and I will have to do it in an unexpected way, “Malek, who played antagonist Lyutsifer Safin in” No time to die, “said when he premiered the” Amateur “in London Monday.
“I like to make unexpected, unpredictable characters, play them and create them. And here is a story with one in the heart and center of it. He has a unique circumstance that he has been thrown into and no one thinks he is capable of what he ultimately achieves. It is something that is extremely related to all of us,” Malek said.
Malek, who also produced the film, said that the themes of the original film still resonate four decades later.
“It was a cold war movie and I think there are elements during the period still existed today. So I think it’s a very relevant story. Any underdog story is relevant to our time and someone who speaks truth to power that Charlie does, it’s important to have it thrown on the big screen so often,” he said.
Veteran actor Laurence Fishburne plays Henderson, who is tasked with getting the Scrawny Tech Whiz field ready. The two discover their differences, but also a mutual respect during Charlie’s journey to avenge his wife’s death.
“The audience can expect not to be able to find out this. A lot of turns,” Fishburne said.
Directed by James Hawes and also starring in Caitiona Balfe, Holt McCallany and Jon Bernthal, “The Amateur” begins his global theater rolling on April 9.
