Henry Cavill (Highlander) has inked a woody to prima alongside Kevin Hart successful an untitled spy-action drama that McG is directing for Netflix, Deadline tin confirm.
Based connected a short communicative by Sean Lewis, McG’s movie follows 2 rival spies who transverse paths successful a Lamaze class, and whose wives go accelerated friends. Their double lives subsequently collide successful unexpectedly hilarious and vulnerable ways, forcing nan 2 men to reluctantly go confidantes and partners connected nan roadworthy to fatherhood.
Cavill will beryllium playing 1 of nan spies, sources said, though circumstantial specifications arsenic to his characteristic are being kept nether wraps.
The book for nan task is by Adam & Aaron Nee and Jonathan Tropper. Producers see Shawn Levy, Dan Levine and Emily Morris for 21 Laps; Ryan Reynolds, George Dewey, Patrick Gooing for Maximum Effort; and Hart, Luke Kelly-Clyne, and Bryan Smiley for Hartbeat.
Coming disconnected roles successful films like Deadpool & Wolverine and The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare from Guy Ritchie, Cavill tin presently beryllium seen starring other Jake Gyllenhaal successful Ritchie’s Black Bear action thriller In nan Grey. Next up, he’ll beryllium seen starring other Millie Bobby Brown successful Netflix’s Enola Holmes 3, retired July 1. Subsequently, he’s group to header a brace of films for Amazon MGM: a Highlander reboot from Chad Stahelski, positive Rawson Marshall Thurber’s Voltron.
The Wrap was first to nan news of Cavill’s casting successful nan caller Netflix film.