 |
||
|
Hanssen 60MinII: (more CBS News stories on Hanssen below)
Executive Producers: Lawrence Schiller and Norman Mailer
Directed by: Lawrence Schiller
PBS American Masters: Norman Mailer
Buy their book: Into the Mirror: The Life of Master Spy Robert P. Hanssen
Technical consultants to the movie:
The staff of CI Centre including: Paul Moore
CI Centre serves as technical consultants to movie and documentary productions. See our staff of experts.
CBS News Stories on Hanssen: -Execution Possible for Accused Spy -Alleged FBI Spy Pleads Not Guilty -FBI Spy 'Ministered' a Stripper -Report Criticizes FBI Security
60MinII:
|
DVD NOW AVAILABLE!
Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story is now available on DVD.
7 NOV 02: New York Post review of movie.
6 NOV 02: AP news article: William Hurt sets out to crack the code of a turncoat spy in a CBS miniseries
4 NOV 02: New updated CBS website on Hanssen movie. Includes the story, photos and bios of the cast, Hanssen timeline, video clips from the movie, behind the scenes and more.
4 NOV 02: Behind the Scenes -- CBS interviews Lawrence Schiller, Norman Mailer.
23 OCT 02: Sneak preview of the CBS Hanssen movie poster featuring William Hurt as Bob Hanssen and Mary-Louise Parker as Bonnie Hanssen.
22 OCT 02: New CBS webpage on the Hanssen movie. The air dates for this major TV movie have changed. It will now be shown two consecutive Sundays in November, a sweeps month. The first part of the movie will be shown on Sunday, November 10 at 9 pm ET and the second part will be shown Sunday, November 17 at 9 pm ET on CBS. To make November a "Spy Month" for CBS, they will be airing the James Bond movie, "The World is Not Enough" on November 3.
13-18 SEPTEMBER 02: The Hanssen movie production came to Washington, DC to film a number of scenes with the actors at various locations. These included the former Soviet Embassy on 16th Street, Union Station, Jefferson Memorial, the Mall, Lafayette Park in front of the White House (click here for photos) and Dulles Airport. Filming for the movie ended on 18 Sept and now it's on to editing and putting together the final product. CI buffs take note: We learned from Director Lawrence Schiller that the real KGB spymasters Viktor Cherkashin and Leonid Shebarshin will be appearing as themselves at the end of the film.
26 JULY-3 AUG 02: CI Centre was on the set of MASTERSPY filming at studios in Toronto, Canada as the technical consultants to the movie. CI Centre professors were there to advise the movie and to serve as FBI agent extras in the shoots. CI Centre professor Oleg Kalugin was also at the studios to film a cameo appearance playing himself in the movie. Director Schiller was quite impressed with Kalugin's natural acting abilities (which isn't surprising since Oleg was a case officer! To recruit people to spy, you have to be an actor.) The film crew will be coming to Washington, DC to film in September.
22 JUNE 02: Actors William Hurt and Wayne Knight visited the CI Centre and professors David Major and Paul Moore to do background research on the parts they will be playing in the movie. They were also shown where Hanssen operated in Northern Virginia, and also met other former coworkers of Hanssen. See more photos below.
16 JUNE 02: Producer/Director Lawrence Schiller announces additional cast chosen for the movie, including Russian actors for the filming in Moscow in July. See right-hand column for more details
10 MAY 02: On the day of Robert Hanssen's sentencing, actor Ron Silver, who plays Hanssen's boss Mike Fine in the movie, visited the CI Centre to do background research for the part. But first in the morning, he accompanied CI Centre professors David Major and Paul Moore as well as MASTERSPY Producer/Director Lawrence Schiller to watch the sentencing at the Alexandria Federal Courthouse. Schiller's observations of the sentencing . . . . News report
William Hurt has heard the William Hurt stories and he's not too happy about them. There are those who say Hurt, who won a best-actor Oscar for Kiss of the Spider Woman, is too demanding.....(Montreal Gazette, 10 June 02)
Knight, Silver, Boyle infiltrate CBS' 'Masterspy' Wayne Knight, Ron Silver and Peter Boyle have come on board to star in CBS' miniseries "Masterspy: The Robert Hanssen Story," about veteran FBI agent and convicted spy Robert Hanssen.....(Hollywood Reporter, 7 June 02)
William Hurt is gearing up for a late June production start on Lawrence Schiller's ambitious, four-hour CBS miniseries about turncoat FBI agent Robert Hanssen...(Daily U, 8 May 02)
CBS to Make TV Project Based on Accused Russian Spy Russian spy hidden deep in the ranks of the FBI? Need a writer to tell that tale? Call for Norman Mailer.....(Reuters, 13 March 01)
CBS to make Hanssen miniseries CBS has spied an opportunity to make a film about FBI agent Robert Hanssen, who was arrested last month on charges of passing secrets to the Soviet Union.....(Variety, 13 March 01)
Movie Director Lawrence Schiller and actor Ron Silver on the set of the CBS Hanssen movie.
More Photos:
|
Hilit Pace as Priscilla Galey, the stripper Hanssen tries to redeem
More Cast:
From the Moscow Film Unit:
|
|
©2002 The Centre for Counterintelligence and Security Studies |
||
William Hurt
Mary-Louise Parker
Ron Silver
Peter Boyle
Wayne Knight
David Strathairn
Kate Trotter
Sarah LaFleur