You may get a sense of deja vu from seeing the names Michael Caine and Sleuth in the same sentence. In Joseph Mankiewicz's 1972 film, Caine played a hairdresser who has an affair with the wife of a murder mystery writer, leading to much narkiness on the latter's part and a convoluted game of cat and mouse between the two. Now Caine is returning to the Sleuth world, but in a very different form.
In Kenneth Branagh's new movie, a fresh take on the Tony Award winning play by Anthony Shaffer, rather than a reworking of the previous film, Caine is in the role of cuckold, not cuckoldee (OK, maybe that's not a word, but you know what we mean). As seen in this exclusive first picture from the movie, Caine plays the author, with Jude Law playing an aspiring young actor who beds Caine's Mrs, leading to all kinds of mindgames.
The film is something of a baby for Law, who wooed Caine, Branagh and uber-playwright Harold Pinter for the film, which will be released later this year. Sleuth Mk III, featuring Law as the writer, Freddie Highmore as the young dallier and direction by Dakota Fanning will be released in 2039.
Click the thumbnail below to view the exclusive first look.