The Adventures of Harry Lime Towers and his company Towers of London. Towers and Graham Greene, author of "The Third Man", had the same literary agent, and Towers learned that Greene had not sold the rights to the character of Harry Lime to Alexander Korda when he sold Korda "The Third Man". Towers quickly bought the rights to the character and in 1951 he put a syndicated radio series into production. Orson Welles reprised the role of Harry Lime in a series of adventures that preceded the story told in "The Third Man". Several episodes would begin with "The Third Man Theme" being played, abruptly
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film) out. British television director David Yates was chosen to direct the film after "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" director Mike Newell, as well as Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Guillermo del Toro, Matthew Vaughn and Mira Nair, turned down offers. Yates believed he was approached because the studio saw him fit to handle an "edgy and emotional" film with a "political backstory", which some of his previous television projects including "State of Play", "Sex Traffic" and "The Girl in the Café" demonstrated. Producer David Heyman supported Yates' comments about the film's political theme, stating that "["Order of the Phoenix"] is a