Gal Gadot and Matthias Schoenaerts are looking for justice in their World War II feature Ruin.
Niki Caro is directing the thriller movie from a script by Kaz Firpo and Ryan Firpo (Eternals) that topped the Black List in 2017, with Gadot and Schoenaerts set to star. Principal photography is aiming to begin in early 2026, with The Veterans overseeing international sales rights and taking the project to Cannes buyers this month. UTA Independent Film Group, WME Independent and CAA Media Finance are handling U.S. rights.
Ruin is set in the rubble of Germany following World War II, with a newly released camp prisoner (Gadot) forming an alliance with a German soldier (Schoenaerts) as they both seek revenge on a Nazi Schutzstaffel unit.
Caro serves as producer alongside Marc Butan for MadRiver Pictures and Gadot and Jason Varsano for Pilot Wave Motion Pictures. Executive producing are Gillian Hormel for Ludascripts and Mary Aloe for Aloe Entertainment, in addition to Kaz Firpo and Ryan Firpo. Evan Powell oversees the film for MadRiver.
Also part of the forthcoming Cannes slate for The Veterans are James Gray’s Paper Tiger and Christian Gudegast’s Gerard Butler-led Empire State. The company’s 2024 Cannes projects included Emilia Perez and I’m Still Here.
Caro’s latest feature credits as a director include the Jennifer Lopez action vehicle The Mother, the live-action Mulan and the Jessica Chastain-led Holocaust drama The Zookeeper’s Wife.
Gadot is currently filming MGM Amazon Studios’ The Runner and wrapped production last year on Julian Schnabel’s Hand of Dante. She starred opposite Rachel Zegler earlier this year in Disney’s Snow White.
Schoenaerts is currently shooting Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow and can soon be seen in The Old Guard 2 and Terrence Malick’s The Way of the Wind. The Firpos are creating the Amazon series Butch & Sundance that is set to star Glen Powell and Regé-Jean Page.
Gadot is represented by WME and Sloane Offer. Schoenaerts is repped by CAA. Caro is repped by UTA. The Firpos are repped by CAA and Untitled.
