Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
Guy Ritchie makes a mix of war film and agent thriller
Guy Ritchie's next film will be set during World War II
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After Quentin Tarantino, Guy Ritchie will now devote himself to a special group of heroes during the Second World War.
The British film director and screenwriter Guy Ritchie (52) is best known for his comedic and brutal gangster films such as "Bube, Dame, König, grAS" or most recently "The Gentlemen". With his next film called "Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare", however, he will go to war, as the US industry website "The Hollywood Reporter" reports.
Accordingly, the film should take place during the Second World War, be a mixture of action and spy thriller and certainly again contain Ritchie's typically British black humor. Jerry Bruckheimer (77) will therefore produce the film, which is based on the book of the same name by former war correspondent Damien Lewis and reports on the real men who went to war as a small special unit against the Nazis at the behest of Winston Churchill. Film studio Paramount is said to have secured the rights to the material in 2015.
Not surprisingly, Ritchie's new project, for which he is also supposed to write the script, is compared to "The Dirty Dozen" and Quentin Tarantino's (57) "Inglourious Basterds". Ritchie has always shared a very similar creative and stylistic streak with Tarantino, so now Madonna's ex-husband (62) also sends a colorful bunch of daring men on a suicide mission during World War II. A planned start date is not yet known at this early stage.