Jake Gyllenhaal to star in Guy Ritchie action thriller The Interpreter

It was reported earlier this month that Jake Gyllenhaal was looking to star in Guy Ritchie’s next project, and now we finally know what it will be. Jake Gyllenhaal is set to team up with Guy Ritchie as he’s set to star in The Interpreter, a new action thriller that’s set to start shooting on January 10, 2022 in Spain.

Guy Ritchie will direct The Interpreter from a script he co-wrote with Ivan Atkinson and Marn Davies, who also collaborated with Ritchie on Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre, Wrath of Man, and The Gentlemen. Jake Gyllenhaal will play Sergeant John Kinley, who is on his last tour of duty. He’s tasked with surveying the region and is teamed up with Ahmed, a local interpreter, but when their unit is ambushed on patrol, Kinley and Ahmed are the only survivors. “With enemy combatants in pursuit, Ahmed risks his own life to carry an injured Kinley across miles of grueling 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.“

The project is said to be inspired by real-life conversations with soldiers and the interpreters who risk their lives every day to help them. Guy Ritchie will shine a focus on these courageous men and imagine just how far one U.S. Sergeant, played by Jake Gyllenhaal, could go to repay such a debt when his translator and friend is left behind.

Jake Gyllenhaal was recently seen starring in Antoine Fuqua’s The Guilty and will next be seen alongside Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Eiza González in Michael Bay’s Ambulance. The film will hit theaters on February 18, 2022. As for Guy Ritchie, the director’s next film will be Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre, a spy film that stars Jason Statham as super soy Orson Fortune. Together with his team of operatives, Fortune must recruit Hollywood’s biggest movie star to help them on an undercover mission to stop the sale of a deadly new weapons technology that threatens to disrupt the world order. Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre will be released on January 21, 2022.