Henry Cavill to Star in Movie "The Ministry Of Ungentlemanly Warfare"

British actor Henry Cavill will star alongside "Baby Driver" star Eiza González in the World War II action spy movie "The Ministry Of Ungentlemanly Warfare".

Guy Ritchie, director of the live-action Aladdin and the Sherlock Holmes films, will helm the movie.

The movie, inspired by real events, will depict UK PM Winston Churchill’s and James Bond scribe Ian Fleming’s secret WWII combat organization. The clandestine squad’s unconventional and entirely ‘ungentlemanly’ fighting techniques against the Nazis helped change the course of the war as well as gave birth to the modern Black Ops unit.

The project was initially in development at Paramount through Jerry Bruckheimer’s first look deal, but the studio will not be distributing the movie.

Cavill will play the leader of the secret combat organization while González is set to play a military sniper with extraordinary spy-craft abilities. 

The movie is scripted by Ritchie and Arash Amel and is based on war correspondent and military historian Damien Lewis’ popular book of the same name.

Bruckheimer will produce alongside Chad Oman for Bruckheimer Films as well as Ritchie’s producing partner Ivan Atkinson, and Black Bear International’s John Friedberg. 

Ritchie and Cavill previously worked on the 2015 spy movie "The Man From U.N.C.L.E."

Principal photography is set to kick off in early 2023 in Turkey.