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THE IPCRESS FILE

Globally-renowned Len Deighton novel, The Ipcress

File, has been adapted into a six-part television series for

ITV starring Joe Cole (Gangs of London, Peaky Blinders) in the iconic role of Harry Palmer alongside Lucy Boynton (Bohemian Rhapsody, Murder on the Orient Express) and BAFTA award winning actor, Tom Hollander (The Night Manager, Birdbox).

Adapted by Oscar nominated and BAFTA award-winning screenwriter John

Hodge (Trainspotting, T2 Trainspotting) The Ipcress

File is an enthralling and atmospheric espionage thriller set in Berlin and London during the 1960s. Emmy award-winner James Watkins (McMafia, Black Mirror, The Woman In Black) will direct.

The Ipcress File was Len Deighton’s first spy novel introducing the iconic British spy Harry Palmer and set against the backdrop of Cold War Europe. To date the novel has sold 10 million copies worldwide since it was first published in 1962.

It’s 1963. Cold war rages between West and East. Nuclear bombers are permanently airborne. In this highly-charged atmosphere, we join Harry Palmer – a British army sergeant on the make in Berlin. Harry’s varied interests bring him into contact with everything and everyone – until the law catches up and it all comes crashing to a halt.

Harry finds himself sentenced to eight years in a grim military jail in England, all his prospects abruptly torn away. But his impressive network and efficiency have not gone unnoticed, and a gentleman from British intelligence has a proposal. To avoid prison, Harry Palmer will become a spy. The Ipcress File will be filmed on location in Liverpool and Croatia during 2021.