Con Air director Simon West helms Fortitude following Ed Skrein’s Dudley Clarke and Matthew Goode’s Thomas Argyll Robertson devising “the biggest deception mission ever mounted. The upcoming British spy film features an impressive cast with Skrein and Goode joined by Nicolas Cage, Michael Sheen, Ben Kingsley and Art Malik.
The film’s official synopsis reads: “With the support of Winston Churchill (Michael Sheen), Ian Fleming (Art Malik) and an extraordinary network of double agents, among them Dusko Popov (Nicolas Cage), the real-life spy who inspired the James Bond novels, Juan Pujol (Jordi Mollà), a Spanish chicken farmer, and Nancy Armstrong (Alice Eve), a top British Intelligence agent, they create a spectacular master plan using a fictitious army, fake tanks, aircraft and ships, actors and false radio messages to fool Hitler’s Nazi Army in the build-up to D-Day. Operation FORTITUDE decisively changed the course of World War II and paved the way for a free world.”
Fortitude’s release date is TBC.
