Netflix's next big crime TV show may be a caper from this infamous British director

Date:
Mon, 14 Mar 2022 11:07:31 +0000

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The criminal underworld with a side helping of belly-laughs could be headed
to Netflix in a new TV show.

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If you like your crime TV shows with a side helping of cockney slang and cheeky chappies, a new in development Netflix project may be right up your alley, guv.

Netflix is in negotiations to greenlight a new TV show based on Guy Ritchies 2019 movie The Gentlemen, according to Deadline .

A pilot script has already been co-written by the British director, responsible for smash hits such as Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch, alongside Matthew Read, with Ritchie lined up to direct the first two episodes and executive produce the series, should it get picked up.

The series would continue in the universe laid out by The Gentlemen film, which saw expat Mickey Pearson (Matthew McConaughey) try to offload his giant marijuana business in London and make a quick buck in the process. It was a star-studded movie, which also featured Colin Farrell, Hugh Grant, Henry Golding, Charlie Hunnam and Jeremy Strong. The Gentlemen did relatively well at the box office despite a mid-pandemic release, making $115 million against an estimated $22 million budget. The Guy Ritchie TV universe

If Netflix does indeed pick up the show, this wont be the first time Guy Ritchies films have been developed into TV shows.

The Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels TV show (Lock, Stock) is something of a lost gem, running from May to July 2000 in the UK on Channel 4, and starred Ralph Brown with guest appearances from The Hobbits Martin Freeman and Game
of Thrones Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. Its quite hard to come by now, outside the second hand DVD market. Another of Ritchies movies, Snatch, was turned into a two-season TV show by the streaming service Crackle, starring Harry Potters Rupert Grint but it failed to grab the attention of critics, nor audiences.

Netflix has a long history of pulling in viewers with crime-based content, from documentaries like Making a Murderer to Tiger King , and dramas like Mindhunter and Ozark .

Theres definitely a gap in its catalogue for a more light-hearted take on the criminal underworld, something that Ritchies films have long led the pack with. But as the earlier adaptations have proven, theres not been sure-fire success in reworking Ritchies films for TV. That Ritchie himself is more closely involved with The Gentlemens proposed spin-off show does offer more hope however. The best true crime shows on Netflix



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