There’s no doubt that Henry Cavill’s career caught wind underneath the cape of the Last Son of Krypton, but the charm of the Big Blue Scout seemed to stick with him longer than it should. Thankfully, that could be on the verge of vanishing entirely with the help of Guy Ritchie and “The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare,” which sees Cavill lead a team of military misfits behind enemy lines in WWII to thwart Nazi plans by any means necessary. The trailer arrived on January 30, with Cavill wielding intense facial hair and the cackle of a hero on a suicide mission, the antithesis of how we’ve seen him these past few years.
In this upcoming action movie, Cavill’s character, Gus March-Phillips, appears to be anything but the smooth, suave spy type, and that’s precisely why we should be excited about it. With an unorthodox team of heroes at the center of this story, “Ungentlemanly Warfare” looks like it’s firing with the same ensemble energy that Ritchie’s best work is known for. Bellowing out the familiar fumes of “RocknRolla” or even “The Gentlemen,” Cavill, for the first time in a long time, is leading the charge and backed by the likes of Alan Ritchson (“Reacher”) and Henry Golding (“The Gentleman”).
With Paramount also considering franchise potential after it bought the rights to the book that the film is based on, this could be a new film series for Cavill, as long as Cavill and Ritchie’s other project together doesn’t keep them too busy.
