Apple Original Films has announced a new documentary film titled The Pigeon Tunnel from documentary filmmaker Errol Morris and the banner The Ink Factory. The film will release on October 20 on Apple TV+.
The Pigeon Tunnel tells the story of a former British spy named David Cornwall who is better known as John le Carré. He was also author of espionage novels as The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Night Manager and The Constant Gardener. David died in 2020.
The upcoming film is set against the backdrop of Cold War until to the present day, spanning across six decades. The documentary will contain archival footage, his candid interviews and draws some information from his bestselling memoir, The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life.
Simon and Stephen Cornwell, co-CEOs and co-founders at The Ink Factory, who are also David’s sons, said in a statement, “Full of deep insight, and surprising, amusing and often profoundly moving anecdotes, The Pigeon Tunnel charts a conversation between two great minds, both consummate storytellers; one who wove extraordinary fiction from the events he experienced, the other whose interrogation of those events has led so often to a greater truth. Together, they explore the events of the Cold War, and of le Carré’s life, testing the boundaries of truth, memory and imagination. The layered and unorthodox film is a tête-à-tête between a filmmaker and a novelist – both masters of their craft – grappling with the roots of the creative process, the power of fiction and our responsibility to the truth.”
