It seems that fans of Jason “The Stath” Statham will be waiting a little while longer for his and director Guy Ritchie’s superbly titled action-comedy Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre, as the project has been mysteriously removed from the release schedule. Revealed via STXfilms’ official website for the movie, Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre was due to hit theaters first in January before being moved to March 18. Now though, the release date for Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre has been taken away entirely, with the movie listed as “unset” and “coming soon.”
The reasons for the removal are unknown, but it is possible that the studio has decided that not even The Stath can take on The Batman. With director Matt Reeves and star Robert Pattinson’s take on the DC icon set to be released on March 4, and with the movie expected to dominate the box office, it stands to reason that STXFilms has decided to unleash Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre after the imminent reign of The Batman.
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At present, there are no other big, blockbuster releases scheduled for release on the big screen in the month of March other than The Batman, with The Lost City starring Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum being the next star-studded release towards the month’s end on March 25. So, it seems that Guy Ritchie and Jason Statham attempted to stare down The Batman and blinked.
Operation Fortune Sees Jason Statham Team With Aubrey Plaza for Guy Ritchie’s Spy Comedy
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Directed by Guy Ritchie, and written by Ritchie, Ivan Atkinson, and Marn Davies, Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre (which was originally known as Five Eyes) follows The Stath as super-spy Orson Fortune, who must track down and stop the sale of a deadly new weapons technology wielded by billionaire arms broker Greg Simmonds (Hugh Grant). Reluctantly teamed with some of the world’s best operatives (Aubrey Plaza, Cary Elwes, Bugzy Malone), Fortune and his crew recruit Hollywood’s biggest movie star Danny Francesco (Josh Hartnett) to help them on their globe-trotting undercover mission to save the world.
Starring Aubrey Plaza, Josh Hartnett, Cary Elwes, Bugzy Malone, and Hugh Grant alongside Jason Statham, is it not yet known when audiences will be able to sit down and bask in the action movie majesty of Statham in Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre.
Meanwhile, The Batman continues to wing his way towards a March 4 release, with audiences everywhere eager to see this latest big-screen take in the beloved superhero. Directed by Matt Reeves, who has written the screenplay with Peter Craig, The Batman stars Robert Pattinson as Bruce Wayne / Batman alongside Zoë Kravitz as Catwoman, Paul Dano as The Riddler, Jeffrey Wright as James Gordon, John Turturro as Carmine Falcone, Andy Serkis as Alfred Pennyworth, and Colin Farrell as The Penguin.
The Batman will introduce audiences to an early version of The Dark Knight, picking up during his second year of fighting crime. The movie sees Batman uncover corruption in Gotham City while pursuing the Riddler (Dano), a serial killer who targets Gotham’s elite.
