«Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre» is an upcoming American spy action comedy film directed by Guy Ritchie.
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- Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre is the full name of the movie.
- It’s an upcoming American spy action comedy film.
- It was directed by Guy Ritchie.
- It was written by Ritchie, Ivan Atkinson, and Marn Davies.
- The film stars Jason Statham, Aubrey Plaza, Josh Hartnett, Cary Elwes, Bugzy Malone, and Hugh Grant.
- Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre is scheduled to be released in the United States, by STXfilms.
- Super spy Orson Fortune and his team of top operatives recruit Hollywood’s biggest movie star, Danny Francesco, to help them on an undercover mission to stop billionaire arms broker Greg Simmonds from selling a deadly new weapons technology that threatens to disrupt the world order.
- The screenplay was written by Ivan Atkinson, Marn Davies, and Ritchie.
- Produced by Miramax.
- The project will be distributed by STXfilms.
- In December of the same year, Aubrey Plaza joined the cast.
- In January 2021, the cast was rounded out with Cary Elwes, Bugzy Malone and Josh Hartnett in supporting roles.
- In February 2021, Hugh Grant joined the cast.
- Principal photography commenced on January 14, 2021.
- Filming took place in Antalya, Turkey, Farnborough and Qatar.
- It was previously known as Five Eyes.
- The film was officially renamed Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre in September 2021.
- It was originally scheduled for release on January 21, 2022, and March 18, 2022
- On February 18, 2022, the film was pulled from the release schedule without comment by the studio.
- Reports indicate the film was pulled from release, not due to the COVID-19 pandemic as before, but because it featured gangsters of Ukrainian nationality as the main antagonist Greg Simmonds’ henchmen.
- The film’s producers thought it would be of bad taste, in light of the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War sparking global outrage, for the movie to present “Ukrainian baddies”.
- In November 2022, amid STX’s restructuring, it was reported that the film would likely be released domestically through a streaming service, while its international distributors will start launching the film theatrically in January 2023.
- The fifth collaboration between Guy Ritchie and Jason Statham.
- Second collaboration between Josh Hartnett, Jason Statham and Guy Ritchie.
- The movies lasts 114 minutes.
