Guy Ritchie will direct the military thriller Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.
He will also act as the author of the tape script.
The project will be released under the auspices of the studio Paramount Pictures - reports Deadline.
The plot will be based on the book by former military journalist, writer, screenwriter Damien Lewis Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: How Churchill's Secret Warriors Set Europe Ablaze and Gave Birth to Modern Black Ops. gave rise to modern covert operations ").
The book tells about the events that took place during the Second World War.
In 1940, Winston Churchill decides to create a special secret unit that will operate behind enemy lines.
It gets the right to kill and use various non-standard methods in the fight against opponents.
“A film based on the true adventures of the Special Operations Directorate during World War II?
I'm in business! ”Guy Ritchie commented on the news about his new project on Instagram.
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The film will be produced by Ivan Atkinson, who collaborated with the director on such films as Gentlemen and Aladdin, as well as Jerry Bruckheimer and Chad Oman, who previously worked on all five films in the Pirates of the Caribbean series.
The Hollywood Reporter likens the upcoming project to war films like Robert Aldrich's Dirty Dozen and Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds.
It is possible that in the future the picture will be continued: as the portal emphasizes, when Paramount Pictures bought the rights to the book in 2015, it was believed that the project had the potential to expand to an entire film franchise, since the work describes many missions that would be interesting to show on the screen.
Master of Crime Films
British director Guy Ritchie became famous in the late 1990s after the release of the crime comedy Lock, Stock, Two Barrels, which won the BAFTA and several other awards.
In subsequent years, he released several more successful films in the crime genre.
Among the most famous are “Big Jackpot”, “Revolver”, “Rock-n-Roller”, “Agents of ANKL”.
The director's distinctive black works are funny characters, witty dialogues and many cruel scenes.
Guy Ritchie has also worked on many adaptations of classic stories.
He directed the adventure films Sherlock Holmes and Sherlock Holmes: A Play of Shadows starring Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law.
Both projects showed outstanding results at the box office: the first part earned $ 524 million on a budget of $ 90 million, and the second - almost $ 544 million.
Guy Ritchie's highest-grossing film was "Aladdin" - the film version of the Disney cartoon of the same name.
The picture was released in 2019 and grossed more than $ 1 billion. Interestingly, the film was coolly received by critics, who considered that the new film adaptation of the famous story could not be compared with the animated original.
At the same time, viewers turned out to be more loyal to "Aladdin": his rating on the Rotten Tomatoes portal was 94% "freshness".
Guy Ritchie's latest work, already presented to the audience, is the 2019 crime comedy Gentlemen starring Matthew McConaughey, Hugh Grant, Charlie Hunnam and Henry Golding.
The film showed good results at the box office, earning $ 115 million on a budget of $ 22 million, and received a lot of positive reviews from both the professional audience and the mainstream audience.
Some film critics called the film the best work of the director in recent years and noted that with it the director returned to the origins that brought him fame.
In the future, a series will be filmed on its basis, on which Guy Ritchie is also working as a director, screenwriter and executive producer.
In addition, Richie has a spy thriller with Jason State, Five Eyes.
The plot revolves around an MI6 agent hired by the international intelligence service to track down suppliers and stop the sale of deadly weapons that could disrupt world order.