Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre is a 2023 spy action comedy film directed by Guy Ritchie, and written by Ritchie, Ivan Atkinson, and Marn Davies. The film stars Jason Statham, Aubrey Plaza, Josh Hartnett, Cary Elwes, Bugzy Malone and Hugh Grant. The film is about a spy, Orson Fortune (Statham), who must retrieve a stolen high-tech device before an arms dealer (Grant) can sell it to the highest bidder.
Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre was theatrically released in international territories on January 4, 2023, and theatrically released in the United States on March 3. It was released digitally on Amazon Prime Video in the United Kingdom on April 7.
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A gang of Ukrainian mobsters manages to steal a device known as "The Handle", estimated to be worth billions, from a secret military black site in Kyiv. In response, the British government hires Nathan Jasmine to retrieve the Handle before billionaire arms dealer Greg Simmonds can sell it to the highest bidder. Nathan hires a team consisting of MI6 super-spy Orson Fortune, American Central Intelligence Agency computer programmer and hacker, Sarah Fidel, and special forces operator and marksman, J.J. Davies. The team travels to Madrid, seeking the courier tasked with transporting the hard drive containing the data from the Handle. Their search is interrupted by Mike, a rival of Nathan's, who seems to have also been hired to retrieve the Handle. Sarah manages to copy the hard drive's contents first. Learning that Simmonds plans to host a charity gala in Cannes, the team decides to infiltrate it by blackmailing his favorite movie star, Danny Francesco, into helping them distract Simmonds. Sarah will be accompanying Danny as "Michaela" while Orson plays as Danny's manager. Sarah gets through the phone to discover secret talks about the buyer for the Handle.
