Guy Ritchie reteams with Henry Cavill and Jake Gyllenhaal for new action film setting sale at Cannes with Eiza González
Hot on the heels of April’s release of The Covenant starring Jake Gyllenhaal and recently wrapping filming on The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare starring Henry Cavill and Eiza González, the energetic Ritchie has set his next movie, due to begin production this summer in Spain. This marks the latest in a prolific streak for the director, whose combination of cinematic flourish, irreverent comedy, and reputation for fostering improvisation and collaboration on set has proved a hit with talent and audiences alike. Black Bear International will be introducing the highly anticipated film to buyers at the Cannes Film Festival.
Plot details – and the title – are being kept under wraps, but the film is understood to be a big-budget action spectacle laced with Ritchie’s trademark humor. The untitled project will reunite the director with recent collaborators Henry Cavill (The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, Mission: Impossible – Fallout), Jake Gyllenhaal (The Covenant, Spider-Man: Far From Home, Southpaw) and Eiza González (The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw, Baby Driver).
Ritchie wrote the original screenplay, and will also produce alongside partner Ivan Atkinson, and Black Bear International’s John Friedberg, who also produced Ritchie’s last two movies.
Ritchie said “There’s something special that happens when you collaborate with the same partners regularly: you build a shorthand and a trust that lets everybody do their best work. Jake, Henry and Eiza are all astonishingly talented, committed, and engaging actors. This is going to be an action-packed movie that is both intellectually stimulating and physically exhilarating.”
In addition to The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, Cavill will be seen next starring in Matthew Vaughn’s Argylle for Apple TV+ and Chad Stahelski’s Highlander for Lionsgate. He will star and executive produce the Warhammer 40,000 franchise for Amazon Studios.
Upcoming, Gyllenhaal stars in Apple TV+’s “Presumed Innocent” from David E. Kelley and J.J. Abrams, as well as Amazon Studios’ reimagining of the 1989 hit Road House, directed by Doug Liman.
Baby Driver and Ambulance actress González will next be seen in the Benioff and Weiss series “Three Body Problem” for Netflix and The Ministry Of Ungentlemanly Warfare from Guy Ritchie and Jerry Bruckheimer.
Black Bear International’s robust Cannes slate includes Max Minghella’s thriller Shell, starring Elizabeth Moss, Kate Hudson and Kaia Gerber; the romantic epic On Swift Horses starring Daisy Edgar Jones, Jacob Elordi and Will Poulter; and Timur Bekmambetov’s Motor City starring Alan Ritchson. Black Bear International is coming off the back of a highly successful European Film Market, where they launched pre-sales for titles including Nicolas Cage thriller Longlegs and event musical Fred & Ginger, which were among the most in-demand projects at the market.
Cavill is represented by WME. Gyllenhaal is repped by WME and Attorney Carlos Goodman. González is repped by CAA, Linden Entertainment, Narrative, and Jackoway, Austen Tyerman Wertheimer Mandelbaum Morris Bernstein Trattner & Klein.
Jill Silfen negotiated the deal on behalf of Black Bear International.
He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.
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