DIRECTOR GUY RITCHIE rose to fame within the late ’90s and early ’00s for making a really particular form of crime film: Cockney mob tales filled with larger-than-life characters, over-the-top violence, and the frequent flashes of puerile humor. He continued that custom in 2019’s The Gents, which starred Matthew McConaughey as the pinnacle of a marijuana empire underneath assault. And that story is now being remixed and retold in a Netflix authentic sequence.
This isn’t the primary of Ritchie’s movies to be given the small-screen spinoff remedy. Following the success of 1998’s Lock, Inventory, and Two Smoking Barrels, Ritchie co-wrote a TV sequence entitled Lock, Inventory…, which recreated the hapless criminal comedy of the unique with a model new solid of characters.
The Gents is equally rebooted right here: whereas billed as a derivative, it bears little resemblance to the film, as a substitute introducing a brand new main man in Eddie (Theo James), a high-ranking navy officer who returns residence to tackle the title of Duke following his father’s loss of life.
As soon as put in within the household seat, Eddie finds himself coping with a chaotic, drug-addled brother, mounting money owed to some very harmful folks, and the invention {that a} portion of their property has been commandeered by an area household for a extremely profitable marijuana-growing enterprise… which could simply clear up all his issues, or introduce a complete bunch of latest ones.
Ritchie advised the BBC that he discovered the central premise in his 2019 film The Gents “value exploring” additional by way of the medium of TV, and that he believes this story of gangsters and aristocrats has longevity, ought to a second season be commissioned.
“You are feeling that this might run and run,” he stated. “The characters tackle their very own life, all you must do is set up a personality and create their very own voice, after which couple that with an actor and we’re off to the races.”
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