Alan Ritchson‘s Navy SEAL film has added a significant Peaky Blinders star to its solid. Greatest recognized for enjoying the eponymous character within the Amazon Prime Video sequence Reacher, it was beforehand reported in September 2025 that Ritchson was reteaming with Amazon MGM Studios to star because the heroic Navy SEAL Mike Thornton in an untitled film.
Now, in accordance with Deadline, Joe Cole has joined Alan Ritchson in Amazon’s untitled Navy SEAL film. It is unknown what function Cole can be taking part in, although he’ll seemingly star as one of many 5 troopers who have been trapped behind enemy traces with Mike Thornton through the last days of the Vietnam Warfare.
Primarily based on a rare true story from the ultimate days of the Vietnam Warfare, Amazon’s movie follows Navy SEAL Mike Thornton as he leads a determined final stand after 5 troopers grow to be trapped behind enemy traces in North Vietnam. Outnumbered by 150 enemy troops, they need to combat by means of relentless gunfire earlier than staging a deadly escape throughout the South China Sea.
Carrying each a critically wounded lieutenant and one other solider tied to him, Thornton swims for hours by means of hostile waters to succeed in security, a rare act of heroism that will later earn him the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Amazon’s Navy SEAL film represents a reunion between Alan Ritchson and director Patrick Hughes, who beforehand helmed him on Netflix’s upcoming sci-fi motion film Warfare Machine, to not be confused with Netflix’s 2017 movie of the identical identify starring Brad Pitt.
Amazon’s Navy SEAL film is produced by Sylvester Stallone by way of his Balboa Productions banner, with a screenplay co-written by Ritchson, Mark Semos, and Jason Corridor (American Sniper, Thank You for Your Service).
An English actor, Joe Cole is maybe finest recognized for starring the primary 4 seasons of Peaky Blinders as John Shelby, the household’s third-youngest brother and a high-ranking member of the titular gang. Notably, John Shelby served as a soldier throughout World Warfare I.
Joe Cole additionally starred within the 2017 movie Thank You for Your Service as Personal First Class Billy Waller, a soldier who returns dwelling from the Iraq Warfare and suffers from PTSD. A few of Cole’s most notable roles have additionally are available in Skins (2007-2013), Secret in Their Eyes (2015), A Prayer Earlier than Daybreak (2017), the Black Mirror episode “Cling the DJ” (2017), Gangs of London (2010-), and Towards the Ice (2022).
Having performed navy veterans in Peaky Blinders and Thank You for Your Service, Joe Cole looks as if an ideal option to play a solider in Amazon’s Navy SEAL film alongside Alan Ritchson.
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November 28, 1982
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Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States
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6 ft 2 inches