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"I wish there was a Le Carré quality here, you know," he said, referring to the late British spy novelist.

Succession star Matthew Macfadyen is set to play writer John le Carré's fictional spy George Smiley in a new TV series, Variety has reported.

George Smiley is a British secret service agent who appears in many of le Carré's books.

The TV series would be "an amalgamation of a number of le Carré's novels, including The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, and The Honorable Schoolboy", plus some unpublished work and other novels, Variety said.

The new TV series would be produced by The Ink Factory, founded by Le Carré's sons Stephen and Simon Cornwell.