 Caine was cast in a spoken cameo role in Christopher Nolan's 2017 action-thriller "Dunkirk" (2017), based on the Dunkirk evacuation of World War II, as a Royal Air Force Spitfire pilot, as a nod to his role of RAF fighter pilot Squadron Leader Canfield in "Battle of Britain" (1969).In 2018, Caine starred as Brian Reader in "King of Thieves" based on the Hatton Garden safe deposit burglary of 2015.In May 2019, Caine was cast in Christopher Nolan's "Tenet", set for release in July 2020.