By Miguel Mike Medina
Photo Credit: Black Bear
Jake Gyllenhaal and Henry Cavill will be starring in a new action heist thriller named “In The Grey.”
Gyllenhaal will play a character named Bronco, and Cavill will play Sid. Guy Ritchie will direct this project. It’s Gyllenhaal’s second collaboration with Ritchie. The story follows two men on a team of operators whose mission is to recover a billion-dollar fortune stolen by a ruthless despot.
Ritchie is no stranger to making gangster films. Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino is one of his major influences. Ritchie also has a history of wanting to work with actors more than once.
The cast also features Eiza Gonzalez, who has worked with Ritchie before; Kristofer Hivju; Emmett J. Scanlan; Jason Wong; Michael Vu; Fisher Stevens; Rosamund Pike; and Carlos Bardem. In The Grey will hit theaters on May 15. Gyllenhaal has been acting in several action movies lately. It’s his fourth action movie since 2022. Other action movies in which Gyllenhaal appeared were Ambulance, Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant, and Road House.
Speaking of Road House, Gyllenhaal is currently filming the sequel, the date of which has yet to be determined. The prequel, which streamed on Amazon Prime Video, was shot on an $85 million budget. Gyllenhaal will reprise his role as former UFC fighter Elwood Dalton.
Aside from directing, Ritchie is also the screenwriter and co-producer alongside producers Ivan Atkinson and John Friedberg. Black Bear Pictures is the distributor. It’s a very busy year for Ritchie. He also has an upcoming comedy film called Wife and Dog, starring Pike and Benedict Cumberbatch. Ritchie also wrote the script and once again will team up with Atkinson and Friedberg. Wife and Dog come out on October 23.
The first trailer for In The Grey is already out. Given that Gyllenhaal and Cavill are the lead actors and it’s an action film, the movie should do well at the box office because both men are extremely talented and highly dedicated to their craft.
Miguel Mike Medina is the publisher of The MMM Journal. He can be reached at medinamiguelmike@gmail.com and themmmjournal@gmail.com
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