Everything You Need to Know About Operation Mincemeat Movie (2022): Apr. 6, 2022 - added Kris Thykier as producer to movie credits - Movie Insider (original) (raw)
Plot Outline: Operation Mincemeat is the extraordinary story of two intelligence officers that changed the course of World War II, saving tens of thousands of lives and breaking Hitler’s deadly grip on Europe, by recruiting the skills of the most unlikely of secret agents: a dead man.
Who's Involved:
Johnny Flynn, Colin Firth, Kelly MacDonald, Matthew Macfadyen, John Madden, Michelle Ashford, Penelope Wilton, Christian McLaughlin, Simon Gillis, Kris Thykier, Emile Sherman, Iain Canning, Charles S. Cohen
PG-13 Parents Strongly Cautioned MPA
Rating Reason: strong language, some sexual content, brief war violence, disturbing images, and smoking
Runtime: N/A
Language: English
Plot: What's the story about?
It’s 1943. The Allies are determined to break Hitler’s grip on occupied Europe, and plan an all-out assault on Sicily; but they face an impossible challenge - how to protect a massive invasion force from potential massacre. It falls to two remarkable intelligence officers, Ewen Montagu (Colin Firth) and Charles Cholmondeley (Matthew Macfadyen) to dream the most inspired and improbable disinformation strategy of the war - centred on the most unlikely of secret agents: a dead man. Operation Mincemeat is the extraordinary and true story of an idea that hoped to alter the course of the war - defying logic, risking countless thousands of lives, and testing the nerves of its creators to breaking point.
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Key Facts
- An adaptation of Ben McIntyre’s novel.
- Netflix has North American and Latin American rights, while Warner Bros. distributes in most of Europe, including the U.K. and Ireland (6/6/2021).
Filming Timeline
- 2021 - September: The film was set to Completed status.
- 2021 - June: The film was set to Post-Production status.
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