Twists on spy tales are very in this year, with Kingsman: The Secret Service already out tweaking the Bond staples, Paul Feig’s Spy set to offer a female farcical take on the genre and for old-school-meets-new-tech, the original flavour 007 is back with Spectre in October. But taking aim squarely at the full-on ‘60s vibe, here comes Guy Ritchie with The Man From U.N.C.L.E, which has debuted its first trailer.
Transplanting the 1960s spy series to the big screen and boosting the budget, Ritchie’s version finds Henry Cavill as suave CIA agent Napoleon Solo, forced to team up with former KGB enemy Illya Kuryakin (Armie Hammer) in the United Network Command for Law Enforcement to take down a mysterious criminal organization bent on destabilising the fragile balance of power through the proliferation of nuclear weapons and technology. The duo’s only lead is the daughter of a vanished German scientist, who is the key to infiltrating the criminal organization, and they must race against time to find him and prevent a worldwide catastrophe.
Channelling the location-hopping style and slightly tongue-in-cheek feel of the show, this promises to see Cavill shrugging off Man Of Steel's cape to have a little fun, and plenty of origin story drama between him and Hammer. With Alicia Vikander, Elizabeth Debicki, Jared Harris and Hugh Grant along for the ride, The Man From U.N.C.L.E. is out on August 14. And we got through that whole news story without once bringing up T.H.R.U.S.H.