From director Bharat Nalluri, comes the long awaited film debut of SPOOKS: THE GREATER GOOD which arrives to download on 14th September and on Blu-rayTM and DVD on 28th September 2015, courtesy of Entertainment One. The film sees Kit Harington in his most action-packed role to date as agent Will Holloway, in the gripping espionage thriller based on the award winning TV series, Spooks. When charismatic terrorist Adem Qasim (Elyes Gabel) escapes from MI5 custody during a high profile handover, legendary operative Harry Pearce (Peter Firth), Head of Counter-Terrorism, is blamed. With MI5 on its knees former agent Will Holloway (Harington) is brought back from Moscow to discover the truth about Harrys resulting disappearance and in doing so, uncovers a shocking revelation; Harry is still alive, has gone rogue and desperately needs Wills help. To coincide with the release of the film on Blu-ray we are giving two lucky readers the chance to win their own copy. If that wasn't enough we are also giving away two outfits that were worn by Kit Harington and Peter Firth during the filming of the movie. The full details of which are: PETER FIRTH 1 x Ralph Lauren Navy Chinos 1 x Dark Grey GAP T-shirt 1 x Black, JOHN SMEDLEY Jumper 1 x Navy CORNELIANI Jacket KIT HARRINGTON 1 x Airforce blue 2 piece TM Lewin suit 1 x Oxblood ALLSAINTS shirt 1 x pair of Grey, Size 41 Jimmy Choos Readers also have the opportunity to read an exclusive and and insightful Q&A with Kit Harington about the film, his character, and the Spooks universe in general: On his character: So, Will is an agent gone rogue essentially. Hes a young man, who we learn in the story, has grown up initially with Harry as a kind of father figure. Hes got a pretty rough back ground; his father in an operation with Harry, years prior to the film starting, probably when he was pretty young -around eight or nine- when his father died. I suppose hes on a quest to find out how that happened; its always been kept secret from him. So there are lots of underlying issues with Harry about who he is, what Harry means to him. Also their background as far as Harry decommissioning him from the service, a few years earlier than our story starts; about three years earlier. So we find him in Russia, gone rogue, hes obviously a very talented young agent and hes been brought in to try and track down Harry because hes got this prior knowledge to who Harry is and understands him in a way that MI5 Secret Service dont. On Spooks the TV series and the spy genre: Im coming into this completely fresh to Spooks. Ive always been aware of Spooks because its always been a bastion of British TV and it ran for so long and it was so popular. My brother for example was a massive fan of it. I never, for some reason or another, I didnt watch any of it. I may have seen one episode years ago and enjoyed it, but didnt see anymore, as it sometimes happens. I was encouraged not to watch too much of it because they wanted to bring a kind of freshness to the movie; to restart in some ways. So Im learning as I go, Im learning who Harry is as Peter plays him day by day. I remember people saying that Spooks was always modern and jumped on the idea of your enemy being someone within your own country and the fact that technology has changed and whats interesting in our movie is that theres a wiki-leaks problem, its all of that that has come into play now so I think it is very up to date and current, always has been. I think people live in boxes now, community has changed and within communities, especially in London, people can slip through the gaps, especially with technology now and social media. And thats what we play with, who do you know whos slipped through the gaps and whos watching out for members of the general public, is that MI5 and are they doing right by us. On the reasons to take this role: One of the major reasons why I really wanted to take this role, not only because it had an exciting script, it had pace, it was fun. But also Ive spent a lot of time in a fantasy realm or in a very archaic place in a lot of the work Ive done on screen. So for me, this is a time when Im still enjoying action sequences. I still enjoy the physical aspect of acting and doing my own stunts and this way I could hold a gun and to read a script and speak dialogue which is a bit more relevant to who I am and who I am in life; its quite refreshing. On working with Peter Firth: Peter and I met up for dinner and had a chat before we started, it was the first time Id met him and he was really lovely and he sent me a text saying welcome to the Spooks family. We were both very busy before Spooks started, I was doing a different film and came straight onto this from that and it was on the hoof really, every day on the set we would have a chat by the trailers about what exactly is going on in this scene and got to know each other that way, hes been very helpful. Hes Mr Spooks isnt he? He knows how theyre going to shoot it, the speed which theyre going to shoot it. I was learning from him all the time and learning from him because hes an incredible older actor; hes been working for a lot longer than I have and hes a very, very kind, very warm hearted man. On filming in London: Being at the National theatre was really fun actually, my first ever job was at the National, I did a play there so to go back and do some shooting around the roof and everything was strangely nostalgic. Im amazed its not used more, I dont know what the production company did to be able to film there but they did wonders, it has got such incredible views and its such an iconic building. I think you either love the architecture of the National theatre or you hate it and Im definitely in the first category I absolutely love it, its everything London to me so it was really great to be shooting there. Ive ruined more takes in this film by not doing anything wrong, other than my performance. Every ad coming out at the time, every few minutes I was on buses going round London, my face would be on it so we had to call cut. I think it went from being funny to really not funny quite quickly, especially me. It was a revelation working in London, the last job I had here was Posh, a play at the Royal Court and since then I havent done a film here. And that was another really important thing career wise for me, as Ive done a lot of stuff that is American based, I was really desperate to do some British drama and Spooks fell into that category and so did another film I did prior to it. Im a London boy. Im a proper anglophile really so its really lovely to be working from home. Getting up in my own flat, coming to work, going home, cooking myself some food; its like a normal job again, strangely. I like the travelling aspect but it feels like the places weve shot, like the National Theatre and the centre of town and Waterloo Bridge. It feels like Im doing something at home, which I am. Its really comforting. Ive got friends who work and live in London who hate it because they feel like theyre work is intruding on their life and that they should be two separate things and they dont like going home at night to deal with the post and the admin and would like leaving it all behind and working in another country. I like that but I really have liked working in my own flat, I bought a new flat a year ago and Ive barely spend a month in it, so its great not to be on that mad living out of your suitcase trail for just a little bit. And Im back on it after this, but its all fun. On stunts: I think if a director is willing to take minimal risk and let an actor do a stunt that isnt too dangerous they will always want to try and do it, because everyone moves differently and a really great stuntman will study the way you move and try and fight like you and move like you but its never quite the same as having the actor do it. I think it bugs directors seeing a stuntman do something and knowing its not the actor whereas the audience may never know. So I like to do my own stuff, Im a bit foolhardy with it really, Im always like Ill do that but then someone steps in and says no you cant, its insurance you cant do that. There were various things in this I couldnt do, no only one actually, the falling out of a window onto a table, I did the jump out of the window, it was fun and exciting. I jumped through a glass window for real; I got cut up pretty bad. No, no it was a CGI window that will eventually smash through. On Quasim: Hes got a very valid reason for what hes doing and we all know its a misguided reason. We all know that hes one of these fundamentalists terrorists. A lot of the time young men get off the train because they feel their country has been unfairly set upon by the West and its a fair reason its just that in my opinion the violence isnt any excuse and I think thats where Quasims coming from. And Will is quite a violent man himself actually and I had a big battle with Bharat because I think he wanted Will to be very likeable, that we should feel for him but my feeling of Will is that he shouldnt be too likeable, hes been brought in my MI5 because hes a bit of a thug really. He does things that they want him to do and I think that comes from his background and I wanted him to be quite aggressive and mirror Quasim really, so on both sides you had these young disenfranchised men who were actually doing quite terrible things and its sort of who do you root for? Who is in the right? I think its like any good drama, its shades of grey really. On working with director Bharat Nalluri: Bharat is very good at talking you through exactly whats happening at any one time and where your focus should be. Weve had long conversations about that because it can get confusing when youve got five guns being throwing around at the same time and youre working at a computer. Then youve got all this technical stuff to do on the computer. Again, I never saw Will as a computer hacker really, it couldve been an interesting choice to make him that but hes not that person, Malcolm is or Harry is even better than Will is. Will knows the basics but like I said before hes the thug really, hes good with his fists and guns and getting information but hes not necessarily that computer whiz that we like to think young men in the secret service are nowadays, hes kind of old school like that. SPOOKS: THE GREATER GOOD IS AVAILABLE ON BLU-RAY AND DVD ON 28TH SEPTEMBER, COURTESY OF ENTERTAINMENT ONE
