Director Guy Ritchie has recruited several well-known names for his upcoming action spy movie The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. Due to be led by Man of Steel star Henry Cavill and Baby Driver’s Eiza González, the World War II movie has now added the likes of Alan Ritchson (Fast X, Reacher), Henry Golding (Crazy Rich Asians, The Gentlemen), Henrique Zaga (Beyond The Universe), Alex Pettyfer (Magic Mike, The Infernal Machine), and Cary Elwes (Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One) to the roster.
But that’s not all, according to a report by Deadline, Hero Fiennes Tiffin (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, The Woman King), Babs Olusanmokun (Dune, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds) and Til Schweiger (Inglourious Basterds, Atomic Blonde) will also join Cavill and González as they attempt to put a stop to the war.
Directed by Sherlock Holmes and The Gentlemen filmmaker Guy Ritchie, written by Ritchie and Arash Amel, and based on the book of the same name by war correspondent and military historian Damien Lewis, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare will be inspired by true events. The project will follow the World War II strategies conceived by Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Winston Churchill and James Bond creator and author Ian Fleming.
“The clandestine squad’s unconventional and entirely ‘ungentlemanly’ fighting techniques against the Nazis helped change the course of the war and in part gave birth to the modern Black Ops unit,” the synopsis for The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare reads.
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare has not yet been given a release date, but it has been revealed that Ritchie will begin filming the project in Turkey in two weeks' time.
Guy Ritchie Will First Explore Modern Warfare in The Covenant
Before taking audiences back in time to WWII, director Guy Ritchie will first explore modern warfare in The Covenant. Co-written, co-produced, and directed by Guy Ritchie, The Covenant centers on Jake Gyllenhaal as Sergeant John Kinley, who, on his last tour of duty in Afghanistan is teamed with local interpreter Ahmed – a man with a personal mission of his own. After being injured, Ahmed risks his own life to carry John across miles of grueling terrain to safety. Returning home and struggling with amnesia, John soon remembers the man who sacrificed so much to get him out of harm's way. Discovering that Ahmed is in trouble, he decides he will return to the warzone, embarking on a one-man mission to rescue the man who saved his life.
The Covenant stars Dar Salim (Game of Thrones, Black Crab), Alexander Ludwig (Vikings, Bad Boys for Life), Antony Starr (The Boys), Jason Wong (The Gentlemen), Bobby Schofield (Black Sea, SAS Rogue Heroes), Sean Sagar (The Gentlemen, Fate: The Winx Saga), Sina Parvaneh (Holy Spider), Emily Beecham (1899, Daphne), Cyrus Khodaveisi (Love at Second Sight), and Christian Ochoa (Pitch, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) alongside Gyllenhaal.
The Covenant is scheduled for release in the United States on April 21, 2023, by United Artists Releasing and is due to debut internationally courtesy of Prime Video.