Casting continues for 'Napoleon Solo' in director Guy Ritchie's developing big screen Warners' remake of the 1960's classic spy TV series "The Man From U.N.C.L.E."
The original NBC TV series, airing September 1964 to January 1968, followed two US secret agents, played by actors Robert Vaughn ("The Magnificent Seven") and David McCallum ("The Great Escape").
The dapper spies worked for the clandestine, international law-enforcement agency 'U.N.C.L.E.' ('United Network Command for Law and Enforcement').
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer produced 105 "U.N.C.L.E." episodes, originally developed by Sam Rolfe for executive producer Norman Felton, with"James Bond" author Ian Fleming contributing characters 'Napoleon Solo' and 'April Dancer', to series scriptwriters Robert Towne ("Chinatown") and Harlan Ellison ("The City On The Edge Of Forever").
In the TV series, American Solo (Vaughn) and Russian 'Illya Kuryakin' (McCallum) reported to 'Alexander Waverly' (Leo G. Carrol'), aka 'Number One of Section One'.
U.N.C.L.E.'s archenemy 'THRUSH' ('Technological Hierarchy for the Removal of Undesirables and Subjugation of Humanity'), originated in the Third Reich, believing in a '2-party' system of masters and slaves.
TV Spin-offs included "The Girl From U.N.C.L.E.".
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