“The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare” is a new spy action comedy film by Guy Ritchie starring Henry Cavill.
So let’s find out some trivia and facts about the film.
- The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare is a 2024 spy action comedy film
- It is directed, co-written and co-produced by Guy Ritchie
- Starring Henry Cavill, Eiza González, Alan Ritchson, Henry Golding and Alex Pettyfer
- The film is based on the 2014 book Churchill’s Secret Warriors: The Explosive True Story of the Special Forces Desperadoes of WWII by Damien Lewis
- The film portrays a heavily fictionalized version of Operation Postmaster
- The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare had its premiere on April 13, 2024 in New York
- It was released in the United States on April 19, 2024
- On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a 73%
- Based on 102 critics’ reviews
- With an average rating of 6.3/10
- The website’s consensus reads: “Cranking up a true story of derring-do into a high-octane action flick that’s heavy on spectacle if not suspense, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare is another solid entry into Guy Ritchie’s pantheon”
- Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 57 out of 100
- Based on 32 critics, indicating “mixed or average” reviews
- Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of “A−” on an A+ to F scale
- In the United States, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare was released alongside Abigail and Spy × Family Code: White
- It is projected to gross $5–8 million from 2,845 theaters in its opening weekend
- The film made $3.7 million on its first day
- This includes $1.45 million from previews
- Paramount Pictures acquired the rights to Damien Lewis’s book The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: How Churchill’s Secret Warriors Set Europe Ablaze and Gave Birth to Modern Black Ops in 2015
- Guy Ritchie signed on to direct the project in February 2021
- From a script by Arash Amel
- With Jerry Bruckheimer producing the film
- In October 2022, Henry Cavill and Eiza González were set to star
- With Paramount no longer involved and Black Bear International now handling sales for the project
- In February 2023, additional casting including Alan Ritchson, Henry Golding, Alex Pettyfer and Cary Elwes was announced
- Principal photography began on February 13, 2023, in Antalya, Turkey
- And wrapped up in April 2023.
- The day filming began, it was announced Lionsgate had acquired U.S. distribution rights to the film
- Planning to give it a wide release in 2024
- And that select international distribution rights had been sold to Amazon Prime Video
