The Courier Trailer Featuring Cumberbatch, Ninidze, Brosnahan & Buckley
Home » The Courier Trailer Featuring Cumberbatch, Ninidze, Brosnahan & Buckley
The Courier, opening in theaters on March 19. The film was directed Dominic Cooke from a script by Tom O’Connor. You can watch the trailer using the player below!
The Courier is a true-life spy thriller, the story of an unassuming British businessman Greville Wynne (Benedict Cumberbatch) recruited into one of the greatest international conflicts in history.
At the behest of the UK’s MI-6 and a CIA operative (Rachel Brosnahan), he forms a covert, dangerous partnership with Soviet officer Oleg Penkovsky (Merab Ninidze) in an effort to provide crucial intelligence needed to prevent a nuclear confrontation and defuse the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Benedict Cumberbatch fans remember watching all of
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, or maybe that was just me. The point is he has a certain genre of film. As
Collider points out: It’s a Dad Genre. I say this as someone who has watched and enjoyed these “dad” movies. It’s me. I’m dad.
But they’re movies that are either war-adjacent or in a spy realm and don’t seem to be the action-packed life that
James Bond exists in. Think more of the intellectual side of being a spy, and with Cumberbatch’s new film
The Courier, he’s playing in that same intellectual space and … good.
7,656 Views | 2:20 | Uploaded on Jan 27, 2021
In 1960s London, salesman Greville Wynne (Benedict Cumberbatch) is recruited by MI6 to work as a go-between for an asset they have in Moscow. Under the guise of a businessman looking to open up western manufacturing for Soviet Russia, Wynne s true task is to act as an intelligence courier. With every Russian he meets potentially being an eye for the KGB, Wynne must continue to sell that he is nothing more than a simple businessman. However, when America and the U.S.S.R. find themselves on the brink of war due to the Cuban missile crisis, the stakes are raised as Wynne fully commits to the work in order to provide vital intelligence to avoid nuclear war.