Oscar nominee Jake Gyllenhaal is set to lead Guy Ritchie’s new STXFilms action-thriller “The Interpreter” which is set to commence production in the second week of January in Spain.
The project will mark the fourth teaming of Ritchie and writers Ivan Atkinson & Marn Davies. The trio previously teamed on “The Gentlemen,” “Wrath of Man” and the upcoming “Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre” in January.
In the film, Sergeant John Kinley (Gyllenhaal) is on his last tour of duty and is teamed with local interpreter Ahmed to survey the region. When their unit is ambushed on patrol, they are the only survivors.
With enemy combatants in pursuit, Ahmed risks his own life to carry an injured Kinley across miles of grueling terrain to safety. Back on US soil, Kinley learns that Ahmed and his family were not given passage to America as promised.
Determined to protect his friend and repay his debt, Kinley returns to the warzone to retrieve Ahmed and his family before the local militias reach them first.
Ritchie and Atkinson are also producing. Gyllenhaal is coming off a pair of Danish film remakes with “The Guilty” and the upcoming “Ambulance”.
Ritchie was linked to the WW2 action spy thriller “Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare” earlier this year at Paramount, but it sounds like that film has been put on the back burner.
Source: STXInternational