It's been over a year since British Oscar winner Colin Firth last graced our screens, starring as the duplicitous Bill Haydon in Tomas Alfredson's wonderful adaptation of spy thriller Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011). However, it looks like Firth was merely biding his time for the release of Gambit (2012), a new Coen brothers-scripted comedy from Michael Hoffman - the man behind George Clooney rom-com One Fine Day (1996) and 2009's Last Station. A first UK trailer for Hoffman's latest emerged today, giving us an initial glimpse of Firth, Cameron Diaz, Alan Rickman and Stanley Tucci in action.
A remake of the 1966 film of the same name starring Shirley MacLaine and Michael Caine, Gambit sees Ethan and Joel once again treading familiarly light ground, with a suggested tone not too dissimilar to either Intolerable Cruelty (2003) or (the far superior) Burn After Reading (2008). Firth plays Harry Deane, a stiff upper-lipped English art curator seeking revenge against his slave-driving boss Lionel Shahbandar (Rickman). Emerging with a plan to con Shahbandar into purchasing a fake version of Monet's Haystacks, currently in the possession of American rodeo queen PJ Puznowski (Diaz), Dean jets off to the States to claim his prize. However, when Puznowski flies over to London to seal the deal, the wheels quickly begin to fall off the cart.
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