Operation Mincemeat (2022)

Directed by: John Madden
Produced by: Charles S. Cohen, Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Kris Thykier
Written by: Michelle Ashford 
Starring: Colin Firth, Matthew Macfadyen, Kelly Macdonald, Penelope Wilton, Jason Isaacs 

1943. The Allies are determined to launch an all-out assault on ‘Fortress Europe,’ but face an impossible challenge - to protect a massive invasion force from entrenched German firepower and avert a potential massacre. It falls to two brilliant intelligence officers, Ewen Montagu (Firth) and Charles Cholmondeley, to dream the most inspired and improbable disinformation strategy of the war - a lunatic and dangerously precarious undertaking centred on the most unlikely of secret agents: a dead man. 

OPERATION MINCEMEAT is the extraordinary and true story of an idea that altered the course of the war - a leap in the dark with no safety net, risking the lives of countless thousands of men, defying logical analysis to prove the impossible possible, and testing the nerves of its creators to breaking point.

Michelle Ashford’s screenplay is based on the best-selling Ben Macintyre book of the same name. Operation Mincemeat was released in April 2022 to critical acclaim.