The grayscale 50 star agreed to kill Heydrich

Jamie Dornan, who became famous for playing Christian Gray in the 50 grayscale blockbuster, agreed to lead the cast of the real-life military drama "Anthropoid."

The artist will play one of two soldiers of the Czechoslovak army, who in 1942 killed the SS operations group Reinhard Heydrich, who served as head of the RSHA (Imperial Security Directorate General) and the protector of Bohemia and Moravia. The second participant of the attempt will be played by actor Killian Murphy, and the film will be directed by Briton Sean Ellis (“Metro Manila”).

Filming will begin in July. Dornan in the spring also starts to work on the thriller "The Siege of Jadoville", which takes place in the Congo.

The operation to eliminate Heydrich, called “Anthropoid”, was conducted by Josef Gabczyk and Jan Kubis, trained in the UK and landed on the territory of the Czech Republic in May 1942. An attempt on Heydrich took place on May 27, he died from his wounds 4 June. Shortly thereafter, the murderers and their accomplices, surrounded on the territory of the Cathedral of Cyril and Methodius in Prague, died or committed suicide. The occupants responded to the attempted arrest of more than 13 thousands of people and the execution of several hundred people.

Heydrich was considered one of the ideologists of the Holocaust. For the cruelty with which he suppressed resistance in his post as protector of Bohemia and Moravia, the Obergruppenführer SS was nicknamed the Prague Butcher.