Guy Ritchie to helm ‘Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare’ for Paramount
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LOS ANGELES: British filmmaker Guy Ritchie can be tackling the upcoming World War II film “Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare” for Paramount.
The film is an adaptation of “Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: How Churchill’s Secret Warriors Set Europe Ablaze and Gave Birth to Modern Black Ops” by Damien Lewis, reported Deadline.
The e-book tells the true story of the highest secret ‘butcher-and-bolt’ black ops items that former UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill tasked with stopping the unstoppable German struggle machine.
Paramount purchased the rights to the e-book in 2015 and writers comparable to Arash Amel, Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson develop drafts.
Jerry Bruckheimer and Chad Oman will produce the undertaking via Jerry Bruckheimer Films.
Ivan Atkinson will function the chief producer.
Ritchie’s directorial credit embrace films comparable to “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels”, “Snatch”, “RocknRolla” and two “Sherlock Holmes” films, starring Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law.
He most just lately directed “The Gentlemen” with Matthew McConaughey and Charlie Hunnam and at the moment reuniting with Jason Statham for his subsequent.
