{"id":478081,"date":"2026-06-05T18:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T18:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/478081\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T18:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T18:16:09","slug":"henry-cavill-joins-kevin-hart-in-netflix-spy-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/478081\/","title":{"rendered":"Henry Cavill Joins Kevin Hart in Netflix Spy Comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/henry-cavill\/\" id=\"auto-tag_henry-cavill\" data-tag=\"henry-cavill\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Henry Cavill<\/a> is gearing up to play spy games with <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/kevin-hart\/\" id=\"auto-tag_kevin-hart\" data-tag=\"kevin-hart\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Hart<\/a> in a new action comedy for Netflix.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tCavill and Hart star as rival spies who cross paths in a Lamaze class when their wives become fast friends. \u201cTheir double lives collide in unexpectedly hilarious and dangerous ways,\u201d an early synopsis explains, \u201cforcing the two men to reluctantly become confidantes and partners on the road to fatherhood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tShawn Levy\u2019s 21 Laps and Ryan Reynolds\u2019 Maximum Effort are producing the untitled film, with McG directing. The script was written by Adam and Aaron Nee \u2014 whose latest film, Amazon MGM Studios\u2019 \u201cMasters of the Universe,\u201d is now playing in theaters \u2014 and Jonathan Tropper. The project is based on a short story by Sean Lewis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIn addition to starring in the film, Hart also produces via his Hartbeat banner, along with Luke Kelly-Clyne and Bryan Smiley. Levy, Dan Levine and Emily Morris produce for 21 Laps alongside Reynolds, George Dewey and Patrick Gooing for Maximum Effort. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tCavill next stars in the \u201cHighlander\u201d reboot, directed by \u201cJohn Wick\u2019s\u201d Chad Stahelski, and Rawson Marshall Thurber\u2019s \u201cVoltron,\u201d both for Amazon MGM Studios. But the actor also has a long history with Netflix, where he starred in the streamer\u2019s uber-popular series, \u201cThe Witcher,\u201d and opposite Millie Bobby Brown in the \u201cEnola Holmes\u201d movies. Cavill is repped by WME. The Wrap first reported news of his casting. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tHart has also enjoyed a prolific partnership with Netflix, with popular films including the heist thriller \u201cLift,\u201d the buddy comedy \u201cMe Time,\u201d the action-comedy \u201cThe Man From Toronto\u201d and family drama \u201cFatherhood,\u201d which was based on a true story. Last month, Hart was the target of Netflix\u2019s live comedy roast, and his next comedy, \u201c72 Hours,\u201d debuts on the streamer on July 24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Henry Cavill is gearing up to play spy games with Kevin Hart in a new action comedy for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,30918,85,46,36841],"class_list":["post-478081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-henry-cavill","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-kevin-hart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}