"Fifty Shades of Grey" star Jamie Dornan announced last Thursday that he will be portraying a new role as an acclaimed 1942 Czechoslovak British-paratrooper Jan Kubiš, who assassinated the then SS Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich in the movie project "Anthropoid."
"Metro Manila" Drama Director Sean Ellis will be directing the said film.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Dornan said, "This is murder but for a greater good. What can be more satisfying than assassinating the mastermind of the Final Solution?" "A lot of that work, thankfully, is done for me on the page. "
The script was written by Ellis and Anthony Frewin and it took them 15 years of research to write about the 1942 assassination. "We've been very accurate in our research and tried to present historical facts," Ellis said.
When Dornan was asked about his motivation in doing the movie, he said "Could there be any stronger drive needed than the opportunity to assassinate someone so horrific? There's nobody in the world now who can't see that Heydrich was evil... So to have that, to bring that to work every day, I'm so excited about the idea of having that as my drive," from the Variety.
The said film is off to shoot in Prague this coming September. Along Dornan, Toby Jones, Charlotte Le Bon, and Ana Geislerova are also set to cast in the movie.
Jan Kubiš who will portrayed by Dornan, was then a real-life Czechoslovak British-trained paratrooper who is part of Operation Anthropoid in 1942. He was sent to Prague to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich, a high ranking Nazi official. Heydrich is also part of the Nazi Party Obergruppenführer and regarded in history as one of the "darkest figures" in the Nazi era.
