{"id":217199,"date":"2023-12-02T17:21:09","date_gmt":"2023-12-02T17:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bestwnews.com\/?p=217199"},"modified":"2023-12-02T17:21:09","modified_gmt":"2023-12-02T17:21:09","slug":"how-slow-horses-went-from-a-book-nobody-read-to-favourite-new-spy-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bestwnews.com\/celebrities\/how-slow-horses-went-from-a-book-nobody-read-to-favourite-new-spy-show\/","title":{"rendered":"How Slow Horses went from a book nobody read to favourite new spy show"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1> How Slow Horses went from a book nobody read to Britain&#8217;s favourite new spy show with a theme by Mick Jagger and an author dubbed the new John Le Carre (who admits he&#8217;d be an &#8216;awful spy&#8217;)<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Apple TV+ series stars Gary Oldman as as Jackson Lamb\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Series aired on Wednesday and has already been greenlit for another<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><span>Latest series has received\u00a0 rave reviews from fans and critics alike\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Spy drama Slow Horses is quickly becoming everyone&#8217;s favourite new spy thriller and its third season on Apple TV+ has been released to rave reviews.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s led by an excellent performance from an Oscar-winning Hollywood A-lister, a British rising star and was written by an author dubbed the successor to John Le Carre.<\/p>\n<p>One more thing &#8211; Mick Jagger\u00a0is such a big fan of the books all it took was a Zoom meeting during Covid and he wrote and performed the theme tune.<\/p>\n<p>But while Slow Horses has been lauded by critics \u2013 its source material came close to being a flop.<\/p>\n<p>Author Mick Herron released the first of his &#8216;Slough House&#8217; novels in 2010, called &#8216;Slow Horses&#8217; after its burnout MI5 agent characters.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/01\/08\/78420485-12813435-Gary_Oldman_portrays_the_miserable_head_of_Slough_House_Jackson_-a-2_1701419868655.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Gary Oldman portrays the miserable head of Slough House, Jackson Lamb<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/01\/08\/78420503-12813435-Advert_for_Apple_TV_series_Slow_Horses_that_is_based_on_Mick_Her-a-1_1701419857672.jpg\" height=\"357\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Apple TV+ series &#8216;Slow Horses&#8217; is based on Mick Herron&#8217;s Slough House novels<\/p>\n<p>It was not until an editor picked up the book at a train station that Herron&#8217;s talent was finally recognised and his novel was republished two years later.<\/p>\n<p>The first book then spawned an eight-novel series (named after the dumping ground for agents) and despite\u00a0<span>surpassing only two million sales worldwide, they were adapted by Apple TV+ in April 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The latest installment in the series, &#8216;The Secret Hours&#8217;, was released on 12 September.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Herron has been compared by some to legendary spy fiction author Le Carre \u2013 but unlike the Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy author, he has no background in espionage.<\/p>\n<p>In fact he worked as subeditor for a legal magazine before becoming a novelist and admits that due to his dislike of technology (he doesn&#8217;t have a smartphone) \u2013 he would not have been an asset to MI5.<\/p>\n<p>He told the Guardian: &#8216;I&#8217;d have made an awful spy. I&#8217;m lacking in practical abilities. These days, most spying is done from a technological perspective \u2013 which I&#8217;d be no good at.<\/p>\n<h3>READ MORE:\u00a0Slow Horses review: The all-action spies who prove the next 007 must be a female, writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS<\/h3>\n<p>&#8216;I don&#8217;t have a smartphone. I don&#8217;t have wifi.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Gary Oldman is the star of Slow Horses as the repulsive but brilliant Jackson Lamb leading a band of blowouts and losers (or Slow Horses) in the rundown Slough House office.<\/p>\n<p>The useless agents are supposed to do menial tasks and admin &#8211; but instead foil terror plots, uncover corruption and rescue each other from kidnappers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jack Lowden plays the problematically career-driven River Cartwright, whilst Kristin Scott Thomas portrays the deputy director-general of MI5.<\/p>\n<p>Herron is &#8216;thrilled&#8217; with the series &#8211; written by Will Smith &#8211; but admits that he did not picture Oldman in the lead role because he doesn&#8217;t see his characters.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8216;I don&#8217;t have a picture of Jackson, I have a voice.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Herron attributes the television show&#8217;s successes to the accuracy and attention to detail from the producers and writers, saying: &#8216;I&#8217;ve been absolutely thrilled by it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I&#8217;ve been fortunate that the producers and writers were determined to bring the books to the screen rather than fillet them.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;There are bits I swear they took straight out of my head.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Jackson Lamb&#8217;s is not the only important &#8216;voice&#8217; in Slow Horses, another is the iconic bluesy drawl of Mick Jagger who wrote and sang the theme tune &#8216;Strange Game&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>But how do you bag one of the most famous rock stars of all time to perform the theme for your series?<\/p>\n<p>Slow Horses composer Daniel Pemberton told director James Hawes that he wanted a British singer to perform the theme.<\/p>\n<p>Hawes then told Pemberton of how he would love to land the Rolling Stones legend &#8211; but the pair never dreamed they would actually get him.<\/p>\n<p>Pemberton recalled telling the director: &#8221;Yeah. Great idea\u2026 there&#8217;s no way we&#8217;ll ever get Mick Jagger. Let&#8217;s not even bother.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/01\/08\/78420435-12813435-Slough_House_book_series_writer_Mick_Herron_60-m-7_1701420311412.jpg\" height=\"634\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Slough House book series writer, Mick Herron, 60, said he would be an &#8216;awful spy&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/01\/08\/78420405-12813435-Mick_Herron_has_been_dubbed_The_new_John_Le_Carre_Pictured_who_w-a-5_1701419979326.jpg\" height=\"661\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Mick Herron has been compared to John Le Carre (Pictured) one of the most famous spy fiction novelists of all time<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/01\/08\/78420423-12813435-Rolling_Stones_singer_Mick_Jagger_performs_the_theme_song_for_th-a-6_1701419981952.jpg\" height=\"951\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger performs the theme song for the TV adaption &#8216;Slow Horses&#8217; called &#8216;Strange Game&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, they gave it a try after\u00a0music supervisor Catherine Grieves provided a connection to Jagger.<\/p>\n<p>Pemberton then sent over an early draft of the soundtrack to the rock legend and got wind he might actually be up for it.<\/p>\n<p>The director told Deadline: &#8216;We kind of got &#8216;Mick might be interested&#8217; and then later received a reply saying that &#8216;Mick&#8217;s really interested now. Can you do a Zoom with Mick?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The composer than sat-in on a &#8216;super surreal on a Zoom call with Mick Jagger&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>After the chat, Hawes and Pemberton were informed that he wanted to do the song as he was already familiar with Herron&#8217;s work.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He&#8217;s probably one of the best people I&#8217;ve ever worked with,&#8217; said, Pemberton.<\/p>\n<p>Jagger wrote the opening verse rand Pemberton&#8217;s ears perked up at the singer riffing the words &#8216;Strange Game.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He just sang this line, and I was like &#8216;That&#8217;s the title!&#8217;, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Pemberton added: &#8216;You get these moments where you&#8217;re like &#8216;Oh, my God, that&#8217;s it.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;So I grabbed that and repeated it a few times, and I was like &#8216;This is great \u2013 we got it!&#8217; And he&#8217;s like &#8216;No, no, it&#8217;s not good enough. Let me re-sing it. Let&#8217;s rewrite it.&#8217; And we just kept going backwards and forwards.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It&#8217;s one of those things I still cannot really believe what happened: co-writing a song with Mick Jagger?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He sounds amazing, and he sounds like Mick Jagger. And he&#8217;ll phone \u2013 I have half-hour phone conversations with him and I&#8217;ll be like, &#8216;This is really weird, chatting to Mick Jagger.&#8217;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jagger said it only took him a &#8216;few pages of notes&#8217; to work out what he wanted the song to be.<\/p>\n<p>He told Variety:\u00a0&#8216;It&#8217;s a quite popular series of books, so I knew what it was about<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I knew the vibe really well, so as soon as [composer Daniel Pemberton] sent the track to me, I just dashed off a few pages of notes of what I thought it was about. It came very, very quickly, which is always a good sign&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The rock legend added:\u00a0&#8216;I just recorded it on my iPhone and sent it to him, and he loved it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;And then we had to do a bit of crafting, trying to get a chorus, calling it &#8216;Strange Game&#8217; and trying to get the verses from the point of view of the main character.&#8217;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>\u00a0Read Christopher Stevens&#8217; four-star review of Slow Horses <\/span><span>here<\/span><span>.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/article-12813435\/How-Slow-Horses-went-book-read-Britains-favourite-new-spy-theme-Mick-Jagger-author-dubbed-new-John-Le-Carre-admits-hed-awful-spy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Slow Horses went from a book nobody read to Britain&#8217;s favourite new spy show with a theme by Mick Jagger and an author dubbed the new John Le Carre (who admits he&#8217;d be an &#8216;awful spy&#8217;) The Apple TV+ series stars Gary Oldman as as Jackson Lamb\u00a0 Series aired on Wednesday and has already been greenlit for another Latest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217198,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - 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