OPERATION FORTUNE

One super-spy, two special agents, and a Hollywood heartthrob. Meet the unlikely team tasked with stopping the sale of deadly new weapons technology in the star-studded spy caper from the director of Snatch, Sherlock Holmes, and The Gentlemen. WORDS HARRY FAINT

IN CINEMAS 18 MARCH

Director Guy Ritchie / Starring Jason Statham, Hugh Grant, Josh Hartnett / Genre Action, Comedy, Thriller

Jason Statham is back in action as spy-for-hire Orson Fortune, who – aided by his trusty team of talented operatives – has been hired to prevent a deadly new world-ending weapon from going on to the open market.

The target? Greg Simmonds, a selfmade billionaire arms dealer and the current owner of the technology.

The plant? There’s only one way to get him in the open – by using his favourite movie star Danny Francesco as bait.

Through a ruse de guerre, or trick of war, Fortune’s highly-skilled team hope to blackmail Simmonds’ favourite actor into infiltrating his inner circle. How? By claiming to be researching his next role as a mysterious self-made billionaire. But it isn’t long before their great deception is uncovered by Simmonds’ team, with explosive consequences.

From the talented writers of The Gentlemen and Wrath Of Man, and the visual storytelling know-how of director Guy Ritchie, comes an elaborate espionage adventure.

Twinning the comedy talents of Aubrey Plaza, Hugh Grant, and Josh Hartnett with Jason Statham’s sarcastic wit, Operation Fortune promises to bring laughs, thrills, and two smoking barrels of fun to the big screen.

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Partners In Crime

In the nineties, Jason Statham was working as a model before he was given his big screen debut by director Guy Ritchie, the rest is cinema history.

LOCK, STOCK, AND TWO SMOKING BARRELS In search of a street-wise con artist, Ritchie learnt of Statham’s past as a black-market salesman and cast him as Bacon in their classic crime comedy debut.

Snatch Their follow-up film saw Statham star as Turkish, a cockney boxing promoter and slot machine shop owner in London’s criminal underworld.

WRATH OF MAN After a fifteen-year hiatus, Statham and Ritchie’s recent reunion follows H, an armoured vehicle driver whose killer training and elite skills surface when he thwarts an armed robbery.