Trivia / The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

• Ability over Appearance: The real Lassen looked nothing like Alan Ritchson, if for no other reason than because Ritchson's enormous physique (which he developed for his part in Reacher) would be very unlikely given the wartime rations his character would be mostly subsisting on. However, his physical performance and stunt choreography more than make up for it.
• Dawson Casting: The real Anders Lassen died at age 24 in 1945. Alan Ritchson was 40 when the film was made.
• Direct to Video: While the film has been released in theaters in the USA, Amazon has acquired the rights to stream it in other countries on Prime Video, preventing a theatrical release in them like was the case with several of Ritchie's previous films, namely Wrath of Man, Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre and The Covenant.
• Dyeing for Your Art: Rory Kinnear is almost unrecognizable under his makeup as Sir Winston Churchill.
• Dueling Works: Was released a few months after Henry Cavill's other big spy film of 2024 by another stylish British director.
• Fake Nationality: The American Alan Ritchson as the Danish Anders Lassen.
• Playing Against Type: Til Schweiger playing a Nazi Big Bad is quite a shock as he's before made it a point of his career to refuse any role in which he would be wearing a Nazi/World War II German uniform. He did make an exception for the uniform before, in Inglourious Basterds, where he played a sociopathic German who brutally murdered his officers and joined the Allies.
• Production Posse: Reunites director Guy Ritchie with actors Henry Cavill (The Man from U.N.C.L.E., plus the upcoming In the Grey), Henry Golding (The Gentlemen), Cary Elwes (Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre), and Babs Olusanmokun (Wrath of Man).

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