The Gentlemen
Guy Ritchieis writing and directing a video show base on his 2020 movieThe Gentlemen . free early in the year before COVID shut down theaters , Ritchie ’s twisty and vehement action mechanism movie pulled in a respectable $ 115 million at the box business office on a reported budget of $ 22 million .
Featuring an all - star cast including Matthew McConaughey , Charlie Hunnam , Colin Farrell , Michelle Dockery and a playing - against - typeHugh Grant , the movie saw Ritchie once again delve into the British underworld for a complex tale involving various characters intrigue to take control of a marijuana kingpin ’s empire . Indeed , the film was widely seen as a replication to form for Ritchie , who begin his life history making gritty crime films featuring multiple shady case and layer narratives before be active on to big - budget fare likeSherlock Holmes , King Arthurand , in the strange vocation go of all , the Disney movieAladdin . Critics largely approve of Ritchie turn back the clock to once again guide a grouping of butch men through a twisting series of romp , withThe Gentlemencurrently holding a75 % score on Rotten Tomatoes .
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Ritchie himself also intelligibly enjoyed returning to the world of offence and criminals , as the manager is reportedly work on turningThe Gentlemeninto a serial . As report byDeadline , Miramax TV is grow the show with Ritchie set to write and unmediated . Indeed , Ritchie first pitchedThe Gentlemenas a TV show before get to it as a feature film film , so in a sense he ’s now render to his original thought .
This of course is not the first metre one of Ritchie ’s movies has been spun into a video series , as his 2000 filmSnatchwas also later made into a show starring Rupert Grint . UnlikeSnatch , which did not have Ritchie ’s direct creative input , The Gentlemenwill benefit from the author - theater director being paw - on in weave another narrative out of his thought . It continue to be see of class if the TV reading ofThe Gentlemenwill gain from the kind of high - power mold that assist make the movie a strike with critic and audiences , but it seems improbable that names likeMcConaughey , Farrell and Hunnamcould be lured to such a project .
As for Ritchie ’s specific story plans , it ’s possible the show could be a lineal continuation to the original plastic film , as the movie does somewhat cheekily tease the possibleness of a follow - up ( the plastic film ends with the majority of the characters go all the scheming and execution , and leaves a lot of doors open for more story ) . It ’s also potential that Ritchie could do an entirely new news report set in the same world as the picture show and standardized in whole tone , but with fresh fiber ( and a much more affordable cast ) . What ’s certain is that Ritchie is very intrigued by the world he set up withThe Gentlemen , and is eager to further search it . By get in the boob tube arena after a very successful trial in cinema , Ritchie unite an increasingly far-famed list of filmmakers who ’ve made the same parachuting , a developing that only avail TV and cyclosis increase their reward over theatrical studio apartment filmmaking in the new amusement landscape .
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