Guy Ritchie's WWII Film THE MINISTRY OF UNGENTLEMANLY WARFARE Adds a Great Ensemble Cast
Director Guy Ritchie has added a great ensemble cast to his upcoming World War II action movie The Ministry Of Ungentlemanly Warfare, which is being produced by Jerry Bruckheimer.
Henry Cavill and Eiza González were initially cast in the film, and now we’ve learned they will be joined by Alan Ritchson (Fast X, Reacher), Henry Golding (Crazy Rich Asians, The Gentlemen), Henry Zaga (Beyond The Universe), Alex Pettyfer (Magic Mike, The Butler), Cary Elwes (Saw, The Princess Bride), Hero Fiennes Tiffin (After franchise), Babs Olusanmokun (Dune, “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds) and Til Schweiger (Inglourious Basterds, Atomic Blonde).
The movie is inspired by real events, and the story "will chart UK PM Winston Churchill’s and James Bond scribe Ian Fleming’s secret WWII combat organization. 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.”
Cavill will play the leader of the secret combat organization. González will play a military sniper with extraordinary spy-craft abilities, and there will be “a bevvy of colorful characters.” The film is said to have echoes of Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, and the hope is to build a big franchise out of it.
The movie was written by Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson, Arash Amel and Ritchie and is based on war correspondent and military historian Damien Lewis’ best-selling book of the same name.
The Ministry Of Ungentlemanly Warfare will start shooting on February 13th in Turkey.