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Henry Cavill’s Netflix Spy Movie Sets Major Production Update

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Henry Cavill is no stranger to the spy genre at this point. He’s been part of the espionage world in films like Mission: Impossible – Fallout, Argylle, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., and The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. He most recently teamed up with Jake Gyllenhaal in Guy Ritchie‘s In the Grey, which turned out to be one of this year’s most underrated action thrillers. Now, Cavill is headed back into the spy genre, and this time around, he’s got another really fun pairing lined up.

This time, he’ll be sharing the screen with Kevin Hart. Hart has made a career out of action comedies, and although lately it feels like he’s been making them with Dwayne Johnson every other year, his 2024 film Lift starred him at the center of a serious heist thriller without The Rock. Money Heist‘s Úrsula Corberó was also a part of Hart’s crew in that film. And this time, it’ll be just as fun to see Hart bounce off someone new for a change.

The Netflix Original spy action comedy starring Cavill and Hart is titled Spy Duo, and it was first announced earlier this year in May. Now we have a better idea of when cameras will start rolling. According to What’s On Netflix, filming is set to begin this August and will continue through November 2026.

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Which Action Hero Would Be
Your Perfect Partner?

Rambo · James Bond · Indiana Jones · John McClane · Ethan Hunt

Five legends. Five completely different ways of getting out alive — with style, with muscle, with charm, with luck, or with a plan so intricate it probably shouldn’t work. Ten questions will reveal which action hero was built to have your back.

🎖️Rambo

🍸James Bond

🏺Indiana Jones

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🎭Ethan Hunt

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01

You’re dropped into a dangerous situation with no warning. What do you need most from a partner?
The first few seconds tell you everything about who belongs beside you.





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02

You have to get somewhere dangerous, fast. How do you travel?
How you get there is half the mission.





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You’re pinned down and outnumbered. What does your ideal partner do?
This is when you find out what someone is really made of.





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The mission is paused. You have one evening to decompress. What does your partner suggest?
Who someone is when the pressure drops is who they actually are.





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How do you prefer your partner to communicate mid-mission?
Good communication is the difference between partners and a liability.





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Your enemy is powerful, well-resourced, and has the upper hand. How should your partner approach them?
The approach to the enemy defines the partnership.





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Things go badly wrong and you’re captured. What do you trust your partner to do?
Who someone is when you need them most is the only thing that matters.





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What does your ideal partner bring to the table that you couldn’t replace?
A great partner fills the gap you didn’t know you had.





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Every partnership has a cost. Which of these can you live with?
No one comes without baggage. The question is whether you can carry it together.





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It’s the final moment. Everything is on the line. What do you need from your partner right now?
The last question is the most honest one.





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Your Partner Has Been Assigned
Your Perfect Partner Is…

Your answers have pointed to one action hero above all others. This is the person built to have your back — for better or considerably, spectacularly worse.

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Rambo

Your partner doesn’t talk much, doesn’t need to, and will have assessed every threat in your immediate environment before you’ve finished your first sentence. John Rambo is not a man of plans or politics — he is a force of nature shaped by survival, loyalty, and a capacity for endurance that goes beyond anything training can produce. He will not leave you behind. He has never left anyone behind who deserved to come home. What you get with Rambo is the most capable, most quietly ferocious partner imaginable — one who has been through things that would have broken anyone else, and who chose to keep going anyway. You’ll never need to ask if he has your back. You’ll just know.

James Bond

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Your partner will arrive perfectly dressed, perfectly briefed, and with a cover story so convincing it’ll take you a moment to remember what’s actually true. James Bond is the most professionally dangerous person in any room he enters — and the most disarmingly charming, which is the point. He operates in a world of layers, where nothing is what it appears and every advantage is used without apology. You’ll never be bored. You’ll occasionally be furious. But when it matters — when the mission is genuinely on the line and the margin for error has collapsed to nothing — Bond is exactly the partner you want. He has survived things that have no business being survivable. He does it with style. That is not nothing.

Indiana Jones

Your partner will know the history, the language, the cultural context, and exactly why the thing everyone else is ignoring is actually the most important thing in the room. Indiana Jones is brilliant, reckless, and occasionally impossible — but he is also one of the most resourceful, most genuinely knowledgeable partners you could find yourself beside. He approaches every situation with a scholar’s eye and a brawler’s instinct, which is an unusual combination and a remarkably effective one. He hates snakes and gets personally attached to objects of historical significance, both of which will slow you down at least once. It doesn’t matter. What Indy brings is irreplaceable — and the adventures you’ll have together will be the kind people write books about. Assuming you survive them.

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John McClane

Your partner was not supposed to be here. He does not have the right equipment, the right information, or anything approaching the right odds. He has a sarcastic remark and an absolute refusal to accept that the situation is as bad as it looks. John McClane is the greatest accidental hero in the history of action cinema — a man whose superpower is stubbornness, whose contingency plan is improvisation, and whose capacity to absorb punishment and keep moving would be alarming if it weren’t so useful. He will complain the entire time. He will make it significantly more chaotic than it needed to be. And he will absolutely, unconditionally, without question come through when it counts. Yippee-ki-yay.

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Ethan Hunt

Your partner has already run seventeen scenarios by the time you’ve finished reading the briefing, and the plan he’s settled on involves at least two things that should be physically impossible. Ethan Hunt operates at the absolute edge of human capability — technically, physically, and intellectually — and he brings the same relentless precision to protecting his partners that he brings to dismantling organisations that shouldn’t exist. He is not easy to know and he will never fully tell you everything. But he will carry the weight of the mission so completely, so absolutely, that your job is simply to trust him — and the remarkable thing is that trusting him always turns out to be the right call. The mission will be impossible. He will complete it anyway.

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‘Spy Duo’ Has the Right People Behind It

The film will follow Cavill and Hart as rival spies who cross paths in, of all places, a Lamaze class, where their wives strike up a friendship. From there, their secret double lives start colliding in increasingly hilarious and dangerous ways, and the two men find themselves forced into an unlikely alliance on the road to fatherhood. McG, the director behind The Babysitter and Charlie’s Angels, is set to direct.

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The producing lineup is stacked too. Hart will produce through his Hartbeat banner. Ryan Reynolds is also on board through his Maximum Effort company. Shawn Levy, the director behind action-comedy hits like Free Guy and Deadpool & Wolverine, is also producing through his 21 Laps Entertainment banner. Netflix hasn’t announced a release date yet, but with filming expected to wrap by the end of 2026, a 2027 release seems most likely. And because Spy Duo is a Netflix Original, it’s already confirmed that the movie will debut directly on Netflix rather than getting a traditional theatrical release.

Spy Duo is set to begin filming in August 2026. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.


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Release Date

July 27, 2018

Runtime

147 minutes

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Director

Christopher McQuarrie

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