Is Rogue Agent Movie a True Story? Here's What's Real Vs. Fake

The 2022 film Rogue Agent has some surprising truths behind its spy story.

Rogue Agent’sarrival on Netflix called into question how much of the thriller is true.

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Rogue Agentis based on a chilling true story featuring a real man named Robert Freegard.

It may shock some, but many of the crimes Freegard committed were real.

The majority of facts regarding Freegard’s crimes are based on an unpublished article by Michael Bronner.

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So by the end of it, I knew so much about Freegard.

We also had Michael Bronner’s original article, which is like this 11,000-word piece but actually never published.

[It’s] incredibly thorough and all backed up and verified by the original victims.

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So, we had a wealth of information."

Bronner ended up helping to write the script for the movie which grounded its events in reality.

Freegard did pretend to be an MI5 agent to swindle people out of their money.

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Smith and Hendy’s storylines are prominent inRogue Agent.

While Archer is not a real person but is inspired by the real woman who brought him to justice.

So it was hardest to imagine that she would fall into this, but then she had this weakness.

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It really was a cat and mouse.

She’s the one who decided, she told me straight up.

She said, ‘It was hard for me because I was deeply involved with him.

But I was gonna f****** nail him.’

It’s those two things that she went back and forth, and back and forth."

Unfortunately, as depicted in the movie, Freegard was released from prison, despite receiving a life sentence.

He was released in 2009 and was not seen for years.

At the time ofRogue Agent’srelease in 2022, Freegard’s whereabouts were still unknown.

Rogue Agentis available to watch onNetflix.