Headline Pictures Kristin Scott Thomas, and Tom Hollander, written by Abi Morgan, telling the story of the secret love affair between Charles Dickens and Nelly Ternan. Headline Pictures is currently developing feature film Reykjavik, a drama about the Reagan/Gorbachev summit in Iceland in 1986 which effectively ended the Cold War; and a TV series based on the Martin Cruz Smith Renko novels, adapted by Adrian Hodges Headline Pictures Headline Pictures is an International Emmy-winning British film and television drama production company founded in 2005 by BAFTA nominee Stewart Mackinnon. The company has developed and produced film and television including The Man in
1985: The Year of the Spy tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union at a crucial point in the Cold War; Mikhail Gorbachev rose to power as Soviet general secretary in the same year. These high-publicity cases added to the American public's suspicion of the Soviets at a time when the Soviet Union was transitioning into new leadership and reforms under Gorbachev. Even Gorbachev's meeting with President Ronald Reagan at the November Geneva Summit did little to reduce uncertainty as to the future of U.S.-Soviet relations. The arrest of so many foreign spies working within the United States Intelligence Community sparked two demands among