The organization which oversees and controls the catacombs beneath Paris. The Foundation for Atmospheric Research and Monitoring, a weather research station that is actually a secret MI6 base and home to the City SpiesĪ legendary MI6 agent, better known as Tru, who is Mother's boss and one of only a handful of people who know about the City Spies.Ī painting by Monet located in the Scottish National Gallery that serves as an important rendezvous point. The nearest large city to the City Spies' home and a key location in the books. The real-life spy and author who wrote classics such as James and the Giant Peach and Matilda. But she has turned and is now an agent for Umbra. The small coastal town that is home for the City Spies.Ī brilliant hacker and the newest member of the team.Īlso known as Clemmie, she is Mother's wife. This mission is hot! The City Spies are a go! And soon, they’re caught up in an exciting adventure filled with rogue missions and double agents! But as they investigate a spy who died at Muir Woods, they discover that they are also being investigated. Meanwhile, there’s been some new intel regarding a potential mole within the organization, offering the spies a lead that takes them to San Francisco, California. But things don’t go exactly as planned, and while Sydney does find herself in the spotlight, it’s not in the way she was hoping. Sydney is excited to learn that she’ll be going undercover on the marine research vessel the Sylvia Earle.
She’s also a field ops specialist for the City Spies. All of these allow them to go places in the world of espionage where adults can’t.įourteen-year-old Sydney is a surfer and a rebel from Bondi Beach, Australia. Operating out of a base in Scotland, this secret team of young agents working for the British Secret Intelligence Service’s MI6 division have honed their unique skills, such as sleight of hand, breaking and entering, observation, and explosives. But the editing was bumpier.After thwarting a notorious villain at an eco-summit in Paris, the City Spies are gearing up for their next mission. I think it was a very happy process, the prepping and the shooting. “It was a big, rough, grey block of stone quite late into the process until we got it shining. Read more: The best British films of the 2010s “I remember it was quite tough to polish it,” adds director Tomas Alfredson, who as a Swede had a useful outsider’s perspective on this very British of stories. “When we got the final edit, it was like, ‘I think this is great, but I don’t think anyone else is going to go and see it because it’s supposed to be a spy thriller and it’s just people talking all the time’,” says screenwriter Peter Straughan, who co-wrote the movie with the late Bridget O’Connor. It wasn’t until the film was actually a hit that the filmmakers of 2011's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy could accept they’d succeeded in their mission to make John Le Carre’s classic novel into a movie. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy will be available on UHD for the first time ever on 6 December 2021 to mark the 10th anniversary of its original release.