This Sunday, January 19, 2025 at 9:10 p.m., TF1 is broadcasting this explosive action and spy film directly released on SVOD on Prime Video, in April 2023. In the cast: Jason Statham, but also Aubrey Plaza, Josh Hartnett and a certain Hugh Grant !
For some time now, many channels have been programming films directly released on SVOD without ever going through the cinema box. We can cite Tomorrow War (Prime Video) in which Chris Pratt fights against aliens and broadcast on May 13, 2024 on TMC or even Hit Mana tasty romantic comedy broadcast on September 4, 2024 on Canal+. This Sunday, January 19, 2025 at 9:10 p.m., TF1 invites its viewers to watch Operation Fortune: ruse of wara spy thriller starring Jason Statham, released on April 7, 2023 on the Prime Video platform.
Operation Fortune, ruse of war : what is it about?
The American secret services are trying to get their hands on a large shipment of weapons. To do this, they call on a British spy, special agent Orson Fortune, whom they put at the head of a shock commando. In the casting, who other than actor Jason Statham to play the big guys? The actor is indeed a subscriber to muscular roles, as in the saga produced by Luc Besson The Carrierand in Sylvester Stallone's testosterone franchise: Expendables. Fans of the genre were also able to see him in the skin of Derreck Shaw in the film series Fast and Furious.
-Guy Ritchie at the helm of this action film with Jason Statham
At the helm of this explosive production, British filmmaker Guy Ritchie, who has continued to multiply projects of all kinds for several years. In 2009 and 2011, he notably revisited the adventures of the famous detective created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in the excellent Sherlock Holmes et Sherlock Holmes: shadow play. In 2017, he rubbed shoulders with the Arthurian legend in King Arthur: The Legend of Excalibur. More surprisingly, two years later, the director rented his talents to Disney by signing the live action remake of Aladdin. So, by trying out the spy thriller with Operation Fortune: ruse of war, Guy Ritchie changes register again and collaborates for the fifth time with Jason Statham after notably Scams, crimes and botany (1998), Snatch (2000) or An angry man (2021).
