Bleecker Street eventually won out the rights to Anthropoid and announced a US release date of August 12 which must mean that we shouldn't have to wait much longer.
Anthropoid stars Jamie Dornan and Cillian Murphy as the two leads under the direction of the Oscar winner Sean Ellis. The real life drama follows the plot of the attempted assassination of the SS Commander General Reinhard Heydrich, the third in command of the Nazi party. 72 years ago on May 27 1942, Operation Anthropoid went underway in Plague. The top-secret mission saw two Czech soldiers parachuted into their homeland in order to carry out the assassination of 'The Butcher of Prague' Heydrich.
Speaking at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Dornan spoke passionately about the project; “The first I learned of Operation Anthropoid is when I read the script, and I was blown away by it. I find fascinating that a story of that magnitude can exist and you not know about it. I thought it’s a very important story to be told and one I wanted to be involved in.”
Murphy and Dornan are both kept busy with their own individual projects; Murphy is starring in the incredibly successful Peaky Blinders which was recently granted a fourth and fifth season. Meanwhile Dornan has just wrapped up filming Season 3 of Northern crime drama The Fall. We will let you know as soon as Anthropoid acquires its official Irish release date.