'The Ministry Of Ungentlemanly Warfare' Sets Spring Release

The Ministry Of Ungentlemanly Warfare officially has an opening weekend. The Guy Richie film, based on the true story of Winston Churchill's secret Special Operations Executive in World War II, will fling open its doors and let viewers in on its secrets this coming spring. The would-be blockbuster, with heartthrob Henry Cavill (Argylle) in the leading role as the real-life Gus March-Phillips, aims to take Churchill's band of misfits who pulled off some of the strangest feats of derring-do against the Nazis and turn it into a summer blockbuster.

This is not the first time Churchill's secret band of creative weirdos, which included Ian Fleming and became the basis upon which he invented the James Bond series later in life, have been committed to screen. Netflix recently released Operation Mincemeat, for example, which was one of the weirder stories out of this department. In this case, Richie is taking his script from the 2014 book Churchill's Secret Warriors: The Explosive True Story of the Special Forces Desperadoes of WWII by Damien Lewis (not to be confused with the actor Damian Lewis).

No official trailer has yet been released for the film, but the first images from filming have been floating around social media for a while. Both are done as old-timey black-and-white Polaroid-style photos, with Cavill and his band of merry men and women (well, one woman anyway) working hard to fool the confused Germans.