Just days before the release of Henry Cavill’s new film Argylle, we’ve already been treated to a first trailer for his next movie – and another wild hair transformation.

Henry Cavill has moved on from Argylle’s flat top hairstyle (Picture: Han Myung-Gu/WireImage)

The Superman star, 40, will be on screens this Friday as the titular fictional super-spy in Matthew Vaughn’s latest blockbuster, opposite a star-studded cast including Sam Rockwell, Bruce Dallas Howard, Samuel L Jackson, Bryan Cranston and Chip the (filmmaker’s own) cat.

The trailer for The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare dropped on Tuesday, offering a glimpse at Henry in character as real-life special forces officer Gus March-Phillips.

And this time around, the star has much longer, curlier locks and a full beard, complete with an impressive moustache.

His dramatic flat top hairstyle in Argylle has already generated plenty of buzz and lookalike comparisons, but his next flick, with director Guy Ritchie, has provided us with another distinctive look thanks to his head and facial hair.

Now, we all know Henry has quite the history with an onscreen ‘tache thanks to the Mission: Impossible – Fallout vs Justice League CGI debacle, but his time he’s even got a little jaunty twirl at either end.

In The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, the actor has an impressive moustache, beard and longer hair (Picture: Lionsgate)

Henry plays the founder of an early version of the SAS in the Guy Ritchie film (Picture: Lionsgate)

Thanks to that, he’s giving us some new lookalike vibes…

Colonel Sanders

The actor is giving us Colonel Sanders vibes (Picture: Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock)

Hear us out, but Henry’s latest hair transformation is really giving him an air of a young Colonel Sanders, thanks to his beard and ‘tache como.

Yes, he doesn’t have the same snowy white colour, but a similarity is also there in the distinct wave to his hair too.

Colonel Sanders is, of course, the famous founder of fast-food chain KFC, who also acted as the company’s brand ambassador, with his name and likeness still remaining symbols of the company to this day.

Hercule Poirot

There’s also Poirot similarities, with that twirl in the ‘tache (Picture: ITV/REX/Shutterstock)

Another in the younger/hot version category is Hercule Poirot.

Naturally, author Agatha Christie’s sleuth is the most famous owner onscreen of Henry’s type of ‘tache in The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, thanks to the countless adaptations of her work.

So, of course, he was going to spring to mind.

Actor David Suchet, 77, is perhaps the most recognisable version of the twirly-moustached detective, having played him from 1989 until 2013 in the ITV television adaptation of the novels.

Daniel Day-Lewis in Gangs of New York

Daniel Day-Lewis rocked a similar look in Gangs of New York (Picture: Miramax/Dimension Films/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock)

Although the trailer for The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare suggests rather a different personality type for Phillips (as we’d hope), there’s no getting away from the Daniel Day-Lewis in Gangs of New York vibe.

As Bill ‘The Butcher’ Cutting, Day-Lewis is a rather violent criminal, fond of sticking heads on pikes, whereas the basis for Henry’s character in his new film was March-Phillips, founder of the British Army’s No. 62 Commando, an early precursor to the SAS, and an officer during World War Two.

However, from a purely superficial point of view, Day-Lewis rocks one of the most iconic moustache-and-hair blends in cinema, from which Henry’s is not that far…

Errol Flynn in The Sea Hawk

Errol Flynn was an old-school swashbuckler, with similar style to Henry in his latest role (Picture: Warner Bros/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock)

An older reference, but if you’re Guy Richie making a deliberately anachronistic film about beating the Nazis with machine guns and razor-sharp quips, then there’s very much an element of swashbuckling going on.

Also – you even see a boat in the trailer, so that combined with Henry’s hirsute vibe and swagger is saying ‘pirate’ to us.

So naturally, there’s Errol Flynn. An action star of his day, the actor played everyone from Robin Hood to Captain Blood to the Earl of Essex.

Alongside his roguish charm, he inevitably sported some sort of combination of facial hair and longer locks, with the most similar to Henry’s probably being in 1940’s The Sea Hawk.

Mr. Pringles

Were you not a bit reminded of this too? (Picture: Getty/SOPA)

A little left field here, but if we can mention Colonel Sanders, surely the Pringles logo character should get some acknowledgement?

Boasting a very fine and bushy specimen of a moustache, which has a jaunty twirl like Henry’s, Mr. Julius Pringles (his official name, apparently) also has wavier hair on top too.

Mr. Pringles was introduced in 1967, with a head of hair, moustache and the company’s name written out to resemble a bowtie.

Since 2021, however, he has been streamlined to remove his fine head of hair.

Douglas Fairbanks in The Thief of Bagdad (1924)

The original swashbuckler Douglas Fairbanks often had a similar moustache (Picture: Granger/REX/Shutterstock)

Another Golden Age of Hollywood reference, but if Henry is reminding us of Flynn then he’s almost certainly got a dash of Douglas Fairbanks in his new character and look as well.

Fairbanks was arguably the first blockbuster star in Hollywood, and a founder of United Artists studios alongside Charlie Chaplin, filmmaker D.W. Griffith and his real-life wife and fellow star Mary Pickford.

Famed for doing his own stunts, he is certainly an inspiration for the action-heavy movies of today.

The Thief of Bagdad is widely considered one of the best silent films made.

Sam Elliott

An actor whose iconic ‘tache is older than most of us, we couldn’t not mention Sam Elliott… (Picture: REX/Shutterstock)

Almost aways an owner of a fine moustache, Sam Elliott deserves an honourable mention.

Sometimes he grows it long enough to flick up like Henry’s – or he goes for a handlebar – but he is rarely seen without (except in TV series Justified, where he was almost unrecognisable clean shaven).

The Oscar nominee started his lengthy career with bit parts in iconic 1960s Westerns The Way West and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

Since then, he’s returned to play cowboy types time and again, as well as appear in films like 2018’s A Star is Born, Up in the Air and Ghost Rider.

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare follows a daring operation that changed the course of WWII (Picture: Lionsgate)

The Ministry Of Ungentlemanly Warfare boasts a cast including Henry, Eiza González, Reacher’s Alan Ritchson, Alex Pettyfer, Henry Golding, and Cary Elwes.

It tells the story of the first-ever special forces organization formed during WWII by Winston Churchill and a small group of military officials including author Ian Fleming.

The top-secret combat unit, composed of a motley crew of rogues and mavericks, goes on a daring mission against the Nazis using entirely unconventional and utterly ‘ungentlemanly’ fighting techniques.

Ultimately, their audacious approach changed the course of the war and laid the foundation for the British SAS and modern Black Ops warfare.

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare is set for release in US cinemas on April 19, with a UK date yet to be announced. Argylle is in cinemas on Thursday, February 1.