Swedish director set for spy film

Let The Right One film has picked up several international awards

Swedish director Tomas Alfredson, best known for making acclaimed vampire movie Let The Right One In, has signed up for his next project.

The award-winning filmmaker will direct a movie based on John Le Carre's seminal and best-selling Cold War spy novel Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.

Alfredson said it was a "true honour to be entrusted" with making the film.

The novel has previously been adapted into a Bafta-winning and Emmy-nominated TV series in the late 1970s.

Tim Bevan, one of the chairmen for the studio Working Title, said: "Tomas is one of the most hotly sought after and gifted directors in the industry at the moment and we're really looking forward to working with him on such an exciting project."

Screenwriter Peter Morgan, who was behind the script for Frost/Nixon and The Queen, will pen this project.

Let The Right One In, which was released in the UK in April, was praised for helping to revitalise the horror genre.

It picked up several international awards, including a Saturn prize and a Critics Choice gong.