Henry Cavill and Kevin Hart are heading to Netflix for an unlikely team-up that blends espionage, fatherhood, and comedy. The streamer has officially announced an untitled action-comedy starring the pair as rival spies whose professional rivalry gets complicated when their personal lives unexpectedly collide.
According to Variety, Cavill and Hart will play competing operatives who meet in a Lamaze class after their wives strike up a friendship. What begins as an awkward encounter quickly escalates when their secret identities are exposed, forcing them to work together. The film's synopsis states that their “double lives collide in unexpectedly hilarious and dangerous ways,” pushing the two men into an uneasy partnership as they navigate both international threats and impending parenthood.
The project brings together several major Hollywood players behind the camera. McG is directing from a screenplay by brothers Adam Nee and Aaron Nee, along with Jonathan Tropper. The story is based on a short story by Sean Lewis.
Production duties are being handled by a powerhouse lineup that includes Shawn Levy's 21 Laps and Ryan Reynolds' Maximum Effort banner, while Hart is also producing through Hartbeat.
The casting continues Cavill's busy stretch of franchise projects. The actor is preparing to headline the upcoming Highlander reboot for Amazon MGM and recently made headlines after Amazon confirmed its live-action Voltron adaptation would skip theaters and debut directly on Prime Video.
In that film, Cavill is expected to play King Alfur alongside a cast that includes Sterling K. Brown and Rita Ora. The long-awaited adaptation has been in development for years and remains one of Amazon's most closely watched genre projects.
For Hart, the new movie further extends a relationship with Netflix that has become one of the platform's most successful creative partnerships. The comedian has previously starred in Netflix originals, including Lift, Me Time, The Man From Toronto, and Fatherhood. His next Netflix comedy, 72 Hours, is scheduled to arrive later this summer.
