Originally set to land on screens in January, it looks like Warner Brothers has moved the UK release of WWII drama Operation Mincemeat to April. The move was confirmed by a 2022 release preview by the studio on Tuesday, though no reason has been given for the three-month shift.
There have been some changes to restrictions due to the Omicron variant of coronavirus in the UK, which could have prompted the shift i nrelease for the highly anticipated film from director John Madden.
The synopsis for the movie is below.
It’s 1943. The Allies are determined to break Hitler’s grip on occupied Europe, and plan an all-out assault on Sicily; but they face an impossible challenge – how to protect a massive invasion force from potential massacre. It falls to two remarkable intelligence officers, Ewen Montagu (Colin Firth) and Charles Cholmondeley (Matthew Macfadyen) to dream the most inspired and improbable disinformation strategy of the war – centred on the most unlikely of secret agents: a dead man. Operation Mincemeat is the extraordinary and true story of an idea that hoped to alter the course of the war – defying logic, risking countless thousands of lives, and testing the nerves of its creators to breaking point.
Stateside, the film will release on Netflix.
More on this as it comes in.
