Two Darcys, one preposterous military scheme. In Operation Mincemeat, an upcoming WWII film, Colin Firth and Matthew MacFadyen play Ewen Montagu and Charles Cholmondeley, British intelligence officers hatching a seemingly impossible plan: Releasing a corpse into the sea, decked out with falsified documents, in the hopes of misleading the Nazis so severely that the Allied forces could potentially make gains in the war. Hairbrained? Yes. Absurd? Yes, and the trailer plays into this insanity, making Operation Mincemeat look like a war drama with the pacing of a heist film.
But this red herring of an operation was, indeed, a real mission that the British military carried out in an attempt to loosen Hitler’s grip on southern Italy. We won’t spoil whether or not the operation was a success (Wikipedia is right there), but we can guarantee this cast is a winner: Firth and MacFadyen are joined by Kelly Macdonald, Johnny Flynn, Penelope Wilton and Jason Isaacs.
Operation Mincemeat is directed by John Madden (Shakespeare In Love, The Debt, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Miss Sloane) and is set for limited theatrical release in May and on Netflix in select countries on May 11.
