- Quick Links Sleuth Sony Pictures Classics Sleuth (1972 version) Kenneth Branagh Michael Caine Jude LawProduction was stalled a couple of times, but now with a U.S distributor on board its full steam ahead for Kenneth Branagh’s contemporary take on the 1972 film. Sony Pictures Classics has boarded the production which starts later this month. This is an updated version of the award-winning play. A dramatic and thrilling study of sexual conflict, jealousy, power and manipulation handled with both lacerating wit and humor, Sleuth tells the story of a wealthy writer of detective stories (Caine) and an aspiring yet out-of-work actor (Law) who is having an affair with the writer's wife. The writer's exquisitely modernized Georgian manor, becomes the backdrop for a cat and mouse game that pits one creative mind against another. Caine would be playing the Laurence Olivier role and Law playing Caine's original role.What is of
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