Actor Rami Malek will star in a 2025 film based on a spy novel perfect for lovers of the genre.
The 2025 movie Amateur directed by James Hawes It has a great cast led by Caitríona Balfe, Rachel Brosnahan, Rami Malek, Laurence Fishburne, Julianne Nicholson, Holt McCallany, Takehiro Hira, Joseph Millson, Alice Hewkin, Adrian Martinez y Marc Rissmann.
The story focuses on a cryptographer who manages to blackmail the CIA into training him and letting him go after a group of terrorists in London since they killed his wife.
What is it about?
The 2025 film is based on the spy novel The Amateur by Robert Littell published in 1981. The plot follows Charlie Heller, a CIA cryptographer who is drawn into a dangerous game of revenge. After his fiancée, Sarah, is killed by terrorists in an attack on an embassy, Charlie is devastated. When the CIA refuses to capture those responsible because they have crossed over to the communist bloc, Charlie decides to take matters into his own hands. Using his access to confidential information, he blackmails the Agency into training him and letting him go after the assassins.
After undergoing intensive training, Charlie embarks on a personal mission through Czechoslovakia. However, he does not know that the terrorist attack was a cover-up orchestrated by the CIA, and that now the agency itself has sent an assassin to eliminate him before he discovers the truth. Throughout his journey, Charlie uses his wits and clumsiness as an amateur spy to evade his pursuers.
Luckily, you are not alone.
With the help of Elizabeth, a former CIA agent also seeking revenge, Charlie locates and eliminates two of the terrorists responsible. The climax of the story comes when Charlie confronts Horst, the mastermind of the attack, who turns out to be a double agent with connections to both the CIA and the KGB. In a tense final confrontation, Charlie kills Horst and finds unexpected emotional closure by falling in love with Elizabeth.
The novel mixes action, conspiracy and the transformation of an ordinary man into a ruthless hunter, all while navigating the murky world of espionage during the Cold War.
Are you looking forward to seeing this 2025 movie? The release date will be April 11. Leave me your comments below in the opinion section.
In 1981 they made a movie of the novel.
It must be remembered that there is already a film version titled Parallel secret serviceson that occasion the director was Charles Jarrott and the cast included John Savage, Christopher Plummer, Marthe Keller, Arthur Hill, Nicholas Campbell, George Coe, John Marley, Jan Rubes, Ed Lauter, Miguel Fernandes, Jan Tríska and Graham Jarvis.