A new Jake Gyllenhaal-led project is always an exciting prospect, but his latest venture, action thrillerThe Interpreteris double exciting, with the actor teaming up alongsideWrath of Mandirector Guy Ritchie for this tale of inspired by real-life conversations with soldiers and the interpreters who risk their lives every day to help them.Guy Ritchiewill helm the project, working from a script he has co-written alongside frequent collaborators Ivan Atkinson and Marn Davies, both of whom have worked alongside the filmmaker onOperation Fortune, Wrath of Man, andThe Gentlemen.
InThe Interpreter,Jake Gyllenhaalwill play Sergeant John Kinley, who is on his last tour of duty. “With enemy combatants in pursuit, Ahmed risks his own life to carry an injured Kinley across miles of gruelling terrain to safety,” reads the official description. “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.” Gyllenhaal and Ritchie will no doubt use The Interpreterto shine a light on several contemporary issues, as both Kinley and Ahmed go to great lengths to protect each other amid the most testing circumstances.
Principal photography onThe Interpreteris due to begin on June 28, 2025 on location in Spain, with the prospect of Gyllenhaal uniting with Guy Ritchie sure to be an exciting one for thriller fans. Ritchie, who made an impression out of the gate with bothLock, Stock and Two Smoking BarrelsandSnatch, has since moved in major franchise filmmaking with the likes ofSherlock HolmesandAladdin. The director recentlyteamed up once againwith action movie icon Jason Statham for the action thriller heist flick,Wrath of Man, and is due to director The Stath again in the upcoming spy movieOperation Fortune: Ruse de guerre.
Led by Statham alongside Aubrey Plaza,Operation Fortunefinds the action superstar as the superbly named super spy Orson Fortune who, along with his team of top operatives, recruit Hollywood’s biggest movie star, Danny Francesco (Josh Hartnett), to help them on an undercover mission to stop billionaire arms broker Greg Simmonds (Hugh Grant) from selling a deadly new weapons technology that threatens to disrupt the world order.Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerrerecently set a release date of June 17, 2025.
As for Jake Gyllenhaal, the increasingly popular actor proved his talent for unmissable intensity in Netflix’s recently released thriller,The Guilty. Before working under the direction of Ritchie, Gyllenhaal is already set to team up with another hugely successful action director, Michael Bay, in the upcoming action thrillerAmbulance. Starring alongside Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, the story finds the pair as desperate criminals who take to bank robbing, stealing an ambulance occupied by a paramedic (Eiza González), and a patient in critical condition.Ambulanceis scheduled to be released inmovie theatersby Universal Pictures on July 11, 2025. This comes to us courtesy ofDeadline.
