UK filmmaker Guy Ritchie, attending the Red Sea International Film Festival in Saudi Arabia this week, spoke to Screen Daily about where the status of his various projects currently stand.
He revealed that his crime thriller “The Interpreter” starring Jake Gyllenhaal has been renamed “The Covenant” and wrapped production just under two weeks ago.
Gyllenhaal stars as an army sergeant in Afghanistan rescued by his Afghan interpreter (Fahim Fazli) and has to cross hostile territory to reach safety.
Ritchie is visiting the festival on a break in the midst of shooting the TV series spin-off of his 2019 film “The Gentlemen”.
In February, he’ll get to work directing Paramount and producer Jerry Bruckheimer’s WW2 spy thriller “The Ministry Of Ungentlemanly Warfare” starring Henry Cavill and Eiza Gonzalez.
He then says he aims to make the live-action remake of Disney’s “Hercules” within the next year. He tells the outlet: “I used to make one movie a year; I’d quite like to make three movies a year. Because I like it, it’s not hard work for me.”
