OPERATION MINCEMEAT
NETFLIX GRABS WW2 EPIC FILM
According to Deadline, Netflix has just paid $15 million for World War 2 movie OPERATION MINCEMEAT from John Madden which has
a star studded cast lead by Colin Firth, Matthew Macfadyen, Kelly Macdonald, Penelope Wilton, Jason Isaacs, Johnny Flynn, Simon Russell Beale, Hattie Morahan, Mark Gatiss and Paul Ritter. Set in 1943 when the Allies were determined to break Hitler’s grip on occupied Europe, the remarkable true story follows intelligence officers Ewen Montagu (Firth) and Charles Cholmondeley (Macfadyen) who conjure an inspired and improbable disinformation strategy centered on the most unlikely of secret agents: a dead man. They would trick the Nazis into thinking that Allied forces were planning to attack southern Europe by way of Greece rather than Sicily. Their plan was
to get a corpse, equip it with misleading papers, then drop it off the coast of Spain where Nazi spies would take the bait. It was a plan that helped turn the tide of the whole war.
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| Colin Firth will lead the Operation Mincemeat |
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| Matthew MacFadyen will play an intelligence officer in the film |
PAUL MESCAL
TO LEAD BRING THEM DOWN
Breaking star Paul Mescal, who is currently finishing a movie adaptation of popular opera CARMEN down in Australia (a modern day reimagining directed by Benjamin Millepied in which he plays Don Jose),
will move over to his homeland of Ireland later this summer to shoot Irish thriller BRING THEM DOWN in which he and Tom Burke will visit the wild landscape of the West of Ireland, with the story following an Irish shepherd who is drawn into violent conflict with a neighbouring farm when his sheep are massacred by unknown men. Mescal is also starring in THE LOST DAUGHTER movie which Maggie Gyllenhaal directed and which also stars Peter Saarsgard, Dakota Johnson, Ed Harris, Jessie Buckley, and Oliver Jackson Cohen. The story of that one focuses on a woman's beach vacation which takes a dark turn when she begins to confront the troubles of her past.
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| Paul Mescal is currently shooting Carmen |
I don't normally watch war movies, but this one sounds interesting.
ReplyDeleteAnd the cast is lovely.
Deletewar always interesting....love to watch the war movie
ReplyDeleteThey are often educational.
DeleteYou know anything WW2 related will have Jason tuning in.
ReplyDeleteBring Them Down I’ll be waiting for. Irish hunks and Irish landscape. Yes, please!
I wonder if the Irish film will have a period setting or not, I haven't got any info on it.
DeleteWill be waiting to see what you find out for us!
DeleteIndeed
DeleteLOVE Colin Firth! Matthew Macfadyen is awesome too, really enjoyed his performance in MI5.
ReplyDeleteI adore both MacFadyen and his wife Keeley. Wish they were my neighbours I'd bake them cakes every day.
DeleteWatched a movie Supernova with Colin Firth recently, the one also starring Stanley Tucci. 🙂 They were both great in it, and the movie was solid, too! 👍🏻
ReplyDeleteI have it downloaded, but haven't watched it yet, they are the best of friends in private life as well. Did you know that originally the roles were supposed to be reversed but when they started with the production they realised they should switch the roles.
DeleteI'm all in on Operation Mincemeat. Luckily, we haven't cancelled our Netflix subscription yet (although I threaten to every month). In other news, who in the world would massacre a flock of sheep?!
ReplyDeleteA nasty wolf pack? A Satanist granny from across the hill?
DeleteA nasty wolf pack don't count! The Santanist granny on the other hand would.. Although I'm giggling at the thought of it.
DeleteThey do like to groom Satanist grannies on the Emerald Isle.
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