SUBMITTED BY Nicole

August 20, 2001 —

Entertainment Weekly's Fall Movie Preview offers a glimpse at the plot of 'Spy Game' and some comments by Brad Pitt. Director Tony Scott (Enemy Of The State) describes it as "mind games with injections of extreme action."

Pitt plays a CIA operative in a Chinese prison; Redford is the mentor who finds himself trying to free his protege (Pitt) the day before he's due to to retire. "The film deals with America's foreign policy during the Cold War and after the Cold War," Pitt says. "There's a term in the CIA called 'blowback,' the unintentional reprecussions of our actions. The movie is about how we may have been causing more damage than good--all in the name of democracy--and that maybe America has been No. 1 just a little too long."

The film is told largely in flashbacks, detailing the conflicted relationship between the two men--a relationship we assume is purely fictional given that Redford helped make Pitt a star when he directed the actor in 1992's 'A River Runs Through It'. "Redford helped shape my beginnings at a time when I was very new to the game," says Pitt. "So I was looking forward to sitting across the table with him as, well, not quite an equal...but more equal than we were. He's really a master and I still have a long way to go." Says director Scott, "Sometimes when you have two lads in a movie there's conflict, but they're both charming and funny."

'Spy Game' opens in theatres November 21.