In cinemas on April 9, 2025, The Amateur by James Hawes will be the fiction not to be missed this spring. But what cult film released 43 years ago is this fiction with Rami Malek the remake of?
Revenge in the skin. Revealed in the series Mr Robot and shining in Bohemian Rhapsody et Dying can waitRami Malek has been the darling of Hollywood in recent years. So much so that on April 9, 2025, he will be showing in The Amateura thrilling spy thriller in which he plays Charlie Heller, a CIA cryptographer whose wife is killed in a terrorist attack in London. Deploring the inaction of his superiors, he then takes the matter into his own hands and sets out to find the assassins, embarking on a dangerous journey across the world to wreak his vengeance.
Adaptation of the book The Amateur by Robert Littell, Gary Spinelli’s film is notably a remake of The man from Praguereleased in 1981. At the time, John Savage was given the role of Charles Heller alongside Christopher Plummer and Marthe Keller. However, if the scenarios of the two feature films have many similarities, their main difference is that they do not take place at the same time at all. Where The man from Prague took place during the Cold War, The Amateur takes place in London in the 2000s, recalling in particular the attacks that occurred in the British capital in 2005.
An Outlander star in the casting of The Amateur
Worn by Rami Malek, The Amateur has a stunning cast like many spy thrillers. After shining in the Matrix and John Wick sagas, Laurence Fishburne takes on the role of a highly trained agent who will try to help Charlie in his revenge. At his side is Holt McCallany (Mindhunter), Rachel Brosnahan (The Fabulous Mrs. Maisel), Caitríona Balfe (Outlander), Jon Bernthal (The Bear), Michael Stuhlbarg (A Serious Man), Julianne Nicholson (Mare of Easttown) and Adrian Martinez (The Blacklist : Redemption).
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