Having officially confirmed his DCEU return as Superman and his Witcher exit as Geralt, Henry Cavill has now signed on to reunite with his The Man from U.N.C.L.E. director Guy Ritchie for the World War II action-thriller franchise hopeful The Ministry Of Ungentlemanly Warfare.
Deadline reports that Cavill will lead the cast alongside star Baby Driver and Ambulance star Eiza Gonzalez, while uber-producer Jerry Bruckheimer, still riding high from Top Gun: Maverick, is on board to produce.
The project was initially announced back in 2021 and is based upon Damien Lewis’s book Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: How Churchill’s Secret Warriors Set Europe Ablaze and Gave Birth to Modern Black Ops, which tells the story of the real-life secret combat organisation created by Winston Churchill and James Bond creator Ian Fleming that conducted unconventional ‘ungentlemanly’ operations against the Nazis.
Cavill will play the leader of the team, with Gonzalez as a sniper with extraordinary spy-craft abilities. The rest of the unit will include “a bevvy of colorful characters” in what has been described as “part Dirty Dozen, part Inglourious Basterds“.
The Ministry Of Ungentlemanly Warfare is being lined up as Ritchie’s next project and will begin shooting early in the New Year. The filmmaker meanwhile has the spy thriller Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre awaiting release (albeit on hold due to featuring “Ukrainian baddies), and also has another as-yet-untitled action-thriller starring Jake Gyllenhaal in the can.
