MI6 Movie To Upset The Brits

Nick Nolte is co-producing a new film about MI6 which will accuse them of using assassins and portray them as plodding incompetents who ignored warnings about the notorious Cambridge spy ring's treachery. It's to be based on the forthcoming memoirs of Peter Mason, who claims to have been a secret service assassin. Mason says that he commanded a British "hit squad" that murdered German war criminals after WWII, and that MI6 had evidence of the treachery of Kim Philby and his fellow agent Anthony Blunt long before the two men were exposed. Historians have expressed doubts about Mason's story, saying it seems to mix fact with fiction and be designed to denigrate the British. M R D Foot, an authority on the Special Operations Executive, said, "The claims strike me as highly improbable." Another historian of the period said Mason's account "is not in the top 98% of credible stories, I would have thought." Greg Shapiro and Nolte are joint owners of Kingsgate Films, which has bought the film rights to Mason's autobiography, Official Assassin. They are considering asking Ralph Fiennes to play Mason.