Plot:
TNT's new summer drama The Company is based on the best-selling historical novel of the same name. It tells you the spy story of the Cold War, the battle of wits and courage between American CIA agents and Soviet KGB spies. The Cold War began with the Hungarian incident in 1956, with the focus on the Bay of Pigs incident and the Cuban Missile Crisis, and ended with the disintegration of the former Soviet Union in 1991. The Company spans 40 years and the scenes are also very wide. From the rainy streets of Berlin to the sunny beaches of Cuba, from the secret subversion activities in Budapest to the high-level meetings between Moscow and Washington, the two superpowers of the year were cautiously fighting on the global chessboard. Both sides tried to break the tie and gain the upper hand. However, neither of them was the final winner. On the contrary, they paid a heavy price for each other. According to spoilers, the story of each episode of The Company changes. The first episode is a spy drama, describing the cat-and-mouse game between the CIA and the KGB in the early Cold War. The second episode is an action drama, focusing on two major events: the Hungarian incident in 1956 and the subsequent Bay of Pigs incident. The third episode is a thriller, in which the CIA desperately wants to find the key KGB spy who has been secretly sabotaging CIA operations for decades and has repeatedly succeeded. The Company has a super luxurious production team. Ridley Scott, the producer of Gladiator, Tony Scott, the producer of Man on Fire, John Calley, the producer of The Da Vinci Code, David W. Zucker, the co-producer of Numb3rs, and David A. Rosemont, the co-producer of Into the West, will work together to create this drama. The director is Mikael Salomon, the director of the Emmy Award-winning short drama Band of Brothers, and the script is adapted by Ken Nolan, the screenwriter of Black Hawk Down.