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14. Richard Helms was an advisor on the film ..

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Sun Mar 29, 2015, 12:08 AM

Mar 2015

Soon to be a television programme ..

‘Three Days of the Condor’ to Be Remade for TV

Posted on Wednesday, March 11th, 2015 by Russ Fischer

"When someone mentions “paranoid ’70s thrillers” as an inspirational set of films, one of the movies they’re talking about is Three Days of the Condor. (Anthony and Joe Russo, for example, namechecked it often in the runup to Captain America: The Winter Soldier.)

Sydney Pollack’s original film featured Robert Redford as a low-level CIA analyst whose entire office cohort is murdered while he’s out at lunch; he spends the rest of the film eluding his own death while trying to figure out what’s going on. And now David Ellison’s Skydance Productions, which backs the Mission: Impossible and new Star Trek films, is developing a Three Days of the Condor remake for TV...

http://www.slashfilm.com/three-days-of-the-condor-remake/

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Just watched "3 Days of the Condor" again [View all] ybbor Mar 2015 OP

Excellent movie, along with All the President's Men and Marathon Man salib Mar 2015 #1

Yes, the scene at the end outside the NYT... ybbor Mar 2015 #3

Quite startling how prescient that film was villager Mar 2015 #2

In the opening scene, the killer is standing in front of my parent's apartment brooklynite Mar 2015 #4

No way! ybbor Mar 2015 #5

The film halved the number of days. BlueMTexpat Mar 2015 #6

I'll have to give it a read ybbor Mar 2015 #9

Being paid to read mystery novels BlueMTexpat Mar 2015 #18

Perfect movie Action_Patrol Mar 2015 #7

Great movie. kiva Mar 2015 #8

For old movies that are prophetic about our government undercover operations, Cleita Mar 2015 #10

It's funny you bring up that movie ybbor Mar 2015 #12

I've seen this film in the last year, and you know what struck me? How truly FREE a person Nay Mar 2015 #11

I was thinking the same thing ybbor Mar 2015 #13

Richard Helms was an advisor on the film .. MinM Mar 2015 #14

In June 2001, the Ambassador's niece played a stirring role in history to come. Octafish Mar 2015 #21

One of my favorite movies of all time Joe Turner Mar 2015 #15

wait there's more! Fan Mar 2015 #16

It also had one of the sexiest love scenes I've ever seen (the uncut version)... CTyankee Mar 2015 #17

I'm always stunned at the end when they debate whether the NYT will publish it riderinthestorm Mar 2015 #19

Also "The Anderson Tapes" PCIntern Mar 2015 #20

The last scene was prophetic. Baitball Blogger Mar 2015 #22

Coming Soon: Ed Snowden the Movie; and Robert Redford as Dan Rather MinM Mar 2015 #23

Sweet ybbor Mar 2015 #24