Jim Caviezel, the actor most audiences still picture as the lead of The Passion of the Christ and Sound of Freedom, is going full lone-wolf action hero. Ghost Soldier, a PG-13 action-thriller from Sony Pictures, puts him in futuristic stealth gear and pits him against corporate hitmen. Polygon summed up the trailer as The Beekeeper meets Ghost Recon, and that is a fair description.
The film is set to open in US theaters on November 11, 2026, which is Veterans Day. Sony first dated it for November 6 and then moved it to line up with the holiday.
The setup
Caviezel plays Henry “Fitz” Fitzgerald. Sony’s synopsis calls him “a solitary man with a mysterious past, living a quiet life off the grid in his hometown.” A powerful foreign corporation moves in to take his land and his neighbours’ land “for a massive payday.” It turns out that Fitz is a former Special Forces soldier and advanced weapons developer. In the words of the synopsis, he becomes “a one-man war they can’t win.”
In the trailer, the villain is Brownstone Interworks, a Bahraini-owned conglomerate that has acquired rights to a plot of land and wants to claim it by any means necessary. Its agents violently threaten the people living there, including the parents and child of a deceased U.S. military veteran. A character played by Shea Whigham warns that Fitz is an “old-school green beret with advanced military training.” Brownstone’s hired guns clearly didn’t get that memo.
The gadget angle
The gear is where Ghost Soldier breaks from the usual revenge template. The trailer borrows openly from Ghost Recon Future Soldier and Splinter Cell:
- an invisibility cloak for stealth takedowns;
- a night-vision mask straight out of a tactical shooter;
- old-fashioned bow-and-arrow work next to sniper rifles and explosives.
Sony’s copy promises “weapons no one has ever seen.” Director William Eubank has said he is aiming for a classic late-’80s and ’90s lone-wolf tone, mixing tactile combat with a slick take on high-tech weaponry. The dialogue fits the genre. Fitz announces that “Corporate tyranny is still tyranny,” and at one point he tells his enemies: “God will judge our enemies; I’ll just arrange the meeting.”
Who is behind it
Eubank previously directed Land of Bad and Underwater. The screenplay is by Chris Papasadero. Alongside Caviezel and Whigham, the cast includes Olivia Thirlby (Dredd), Beau Knapp (Tulsa King) and Garret Dillahunt. Columbia Pictures, Mandalay Pictures, Project X Entertainment and Alien Films Entertainment produced the film, with David Zelon and William Sherak as producers. Brandon Roberts wrote the score. Sony Pictures Releasing is distributing it through Columbia Pictures.
The PG-13 rating is for “strong violence, some bloody images, and language”. That makes Ghost Soldier a less brutal option than R-rated peers like John Wick. The release-weekend field is crowded, with Amazon MGM’s heist movie How to Rob a Bank, Bleecker Street’s Victorian Psycho and Ti West’s Ebenezer with Johnny Depp.
