The plot has been updated to take place in a post Iraq War setting. The remake features Denzel Washington and Liev Schreiber in the Sinatra and Harvey roles, respectively, and Meryl Streep in the Angela Lansbury part. The plot revolved around former American POWs who may have been subjected to brainwashing by Chinese communist forces and the political intrigue aftermath when one of them may have been programmed as an unwitting assassin. It was based on a novel by Richard Condon, who also wrote “3 Days of the Condor”. The Manchurian Candidate is a remake of a black and white Cold War thriller from the 1960s that originally starred Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey and Angela Lansbury.
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