When Guy Ritchie’s crime comedy series The Gentlemen debuted on Netflix in March, it came in at #1 Global Top 10 for English-Language Series, garnering 1.2B minutes viewed in its first four days on the platform, according to Nielsen. That being said, will there be a Season 2?
“It wasn’t genuinely discussed,” star Theo James admitted today, in an appearance at Deadline’s Contenders TV. “I think it would be a wrangling process with all of us and Guy. But also, I think with a show like this, if you’re going to do more, you need to come up with a really interesting conceit for Season 2. Because as much as we enjoyed it and as fun as it was, it needs narrative drive.”
If an interesting idea is put forward, he said, then maybe another installment is in the cards. “But I think before that,” James added, “there needs to be discussions,...
“It wasn’t genuinely discussed,” star Theo James admitted today, in an appearance at Deadline’s Contenders TV. “I think it would be a wrangling process with all of us and Guy. But also, I think with a show like this, if you’re going to do more, you need to come up with a really interesting conceit for Season 2. Because as much as we enjoyed it and as fun as it was, it needs narrative drive.”
If an interesting idea is put forward, he said, then maybe another installment is in the cards. “But I think before that,” James added, “there needs to be discussions,...
- 4/14/2024
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
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Weekly Commentary: Following its victories at the Golden Globes for best screenplay and the BAFTA for original screenplay, it appears almost inevitable that “Anatomy of a Fall” will secure the Oscar for its co-writers,...
- 3/7/2024
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Enter the fast and turbulent world of underground crime in the new trailer from the Netflix original series The Gentlemen. The new show is inspired by Guy Ritchie‘s film of the same name. The trailer sees an unsuspecting chap get in over his head as he unintentionally becomes involved with his family’s drug dealings. This new peek at the series showcases the signature aggressive manic style of Guy Ritchie’s gangster films. Ritchie himself is wearing multiple hats behind the scenes as the creator, writer, and executive producer. He has also directed the first two episodes of the series. The show was also previously known to premiere sometime next month, but we now have a release date as Netflix announced the premiere will be on March 7.
The official logline from Netflix reads,
“The Gentlemen sees Eddie Horniman (Theo James) unexpectedly inherit his father’s sizable country estate – only...
The official logline from Netflix reads,
“The Gentlemen sees Eddie Horniman (Theo James) unexpectedly inherit his father’s sizable country estate – only...
- 2/22/2024
- by EJ Tangonan
- JoBlo.com
Just four years after the movie hit theaters, Netflix has turned Guy Ritchie's "The Gentlemen" into a TV show. The above teaser trailer for the series offers proof of that, introducing a drug empire, a cast of criminals, and some vintage Ritchie shenanigans.
The teaser admittedly doesn't dive too deeply into the story, but it does do a great job of capturing the vibe. It's all set to the tune of "Time of the Season" by The Zombies, with some welcome narration by Giancarlo Esposito, of "Breaking Bad" and "The Boys" fame. Esposito is just one part of a pretty well-stacked ensemble led by Theo James ("The White Lotus"). Blood, boxing, and quips, this has all of the hallmarks of a classic Guy Ritchie production. It certainly has a similar feeling to the 2020 movie, but it also feels designed to satisfy "Snatch" fans. The official synopsis for the show...
The teaser admittedly doesn't dive too deeply into the story, but it does do a great job of capturing the vibe. It's all set to the tune of "Time of the Season" by The Zombies, with some welcome narration by Giancarlo Esposito, of "Breaking Bad" and "The Boys" fame. Esposito is just one part of a pretty well-stacked ensemble led by Theo James ("The White Lotus"). Blood, boxing, and quips, this has all of the hallmarks of a classic Guy Ritchie production. It certainly has a similar feeling to the 2020 movie, but it also feels designed to satisfy "Snatch" fans. The official synopsis for the show...
- 1/15/2024
- by Ryan Scott
- Slash Film
“The Gentlemen,” Netflix’s TV series follow-up to Guy Ritchie’s 2019 British gangster film, has released a trailer.
Set in the world of the original, the new series features a cast of new characters, including Theo James as the Duke of Halstead, Ray Winstone as cannabis empire founder Bobby Glass and Kaya Scodelario as Bobby’s daughter and the empire’s operations leader. Guy Ritchie serves as creator, co-writer, executive producer (the latter two positions shared with Matthew Read) and directs the first two episodes.
“‘The Gentlemen’ sees Eddie Horniman (Theo James) unexpectedly inherit his father’s sizeable country estate – only to discover it’s part of a cannabis empire. Moreover, a host of unsavoury characters from Britain’s criminal underworld want a piece of the operation,” the series description reads. “Determined to extricate his family from their clutches, Eddie tries to play the gangsters at their own game. However,...
Set in the world of the original, the new series features a cast of new characters, including Theo James as the Duke of Halstead, Ray Winstone as cannabis empire founder Bobby Glass and Kaya Scodelario as Bobby’s daughter and the empire’s operations leader. Guy Ritchie serves as creator, co-writer, executive producer (the latter two positions shared with Matthew Read) and directs the first two episodes.
“‘The Gentlemen’ sees Eddie Horniman (Theo James) unexpectedly inherit his father’s sizeable country estate – only to discover it’s part of a cannabis empire. Moreover, a host of unsavoury characters from Britain’s criminal underworld want a piece of the operation,” the series description reads. “Determined to extricate his family from their clutches, Eddie tries to play the gangsters at their own game. However,...
- 1/15/2024
- by Valerie Wu
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Guy Ritchie’s Netflix series The Gentlemen is expanding its recurring cast, adding Harry Goodwins and Ruby Sear in key roles.
The eight-part drama series is created by Ritchie, inspired by his 2019 Miramax film. It follows Eddie Horniman (Theo James), who has inherited his English aristocrat father’s sizable estate and becomes the new Duke of Halstead — only to discover that it’s sitting on top of the biggest weed farm in Europe, which is owned by the legendary Mickey Pearson. It’s all about old money, new money and show me the money.
Goodwins will play Jack and Sear will portray Gabrielle. Details of their characters are being kept under wraps.
In addition to James, cast also includes Vinnie Jones, Joely Richardson, Kaya Scodelario, Daniel Ings, Giancarlo Esposito, Peter Serafinowicz and Max Beesley.
Ritchie directs the first two episodes and executive produces alongside Matthew Read, Marn Davies and Ivan Atkinson,...
The eight-part drama series is created by Ritchie, inspired by his 2019 Miramax film. It follows Eddie Horniman (Theo James), who has inherited his English aristocrat father’s sizable estate and becomes the new Duke of Halstead — only to discover that it’s sitting on top of the biggest weed farm in Europe, which is owned by the legendary Mickey Pearson. It’s all about old money, new money and show me the money.
Goodwins will play Jack and Sear will portray Gabrielle. Details of their characters are being kept under wraps.
In addition to James, cast also includes Vinnie Jones, Joely Richardson, Kaya Scodelario, Daniel Ings, Giancarlo Esposito, Peter Serafinowicz and Max Beesley.
Ritchie directs the first two episodes and executive produces alongside Matthew Read, Marn Davies and Ivan Atkinson,...
- 7/13/2023
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Max Beesley has been cast to play Henry Collins in The Gentlemen, the Netflix series created by Guy Ritchie and inspired by his 2019 Miramax film.
The eight-part drama series follows Eddie Horniman (Theo James), who has inherited his English aristocrat father’s sizable estate and becomes the new Duke of Halstead — only to discover that it’s sitting on top of the biggest weed farm in Europe, which is owned by the legendary Mickey Pearson. It’s all about old money, new money and show me the money.
The cast also includes Vinnie Jones, Joely Richardson, Kaya Scodelario, Daniel Ings, Giancarlo Esposito and Peter Serafinowicz.
Ritchie directs the first two episodes as well as executive produces alongside Matthew Read, Marn Davies and Ivan Atkinson, alongside Marc Helwig for Miramax TV, and Will Gould and Frith Tiplady for Moonage Pictures. The series producer is Hugh Warren. Read and Ritchie are co-writers.
The eight-part drama series follows Eddie Horniman (Theo James), who has inherited his English aristocrat father’s sizable estate and becomes the new Duke of Halstead — only to discover that it’s sitting on top of the biggest weed farm in Europe, which is owned by the legendary Mickey Pearson. It’s all about old money, new money and show me the money.
The cast also includes Vinnie Jones, Joely Richardson, Kaya Scodelario, Daniel Ings, Giancarlo Esposito and Peter Serafinowicz.
Ritchie directs the first two episodes as well as executive produces alongside Matthew Read, Marn Davies and Ivan Atkinson, alongside Marc Helwig for Miramax TV, and Will Gould and Frith Tiplady for Moonage Pictures. The series producer is Hugh Warren. Read and Ritchie are co-writers.
- 6/26/2023
- by Rosy Cordero
- Deadline Film + TV
Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Dar Salim, Sean Sagar, Jason Wong, Rhys Yates, Christian Ochoa Lavernia, Bobby Schofield, Emily Beecham, Jonny Lee Miller, Alexander Ludwig | Written by Guy Ritchie, Ivan Atkinson, Marn Davies | Directed by Guy Ritchie
As on-screen text reads, the U.S. responded to 9/11 by deploying troops to Afghanistan. As the number of troops rose across the next decade, the U.S. military employed Afghan interpreters under an agreement that they would be eligible for Special Immigration Visas and relocation to America. That work is seen as the film flashes to 2018, when a routine check ends with a vehicle explosion and lives lost.
Sergeant John Kinley (Jake Gyllenhaal) leads a unit whose mission is to locate Taliban firearms and munitions, which includes a replacement interpreter in the form of Ahmed (Dar Salim). While considerably disliked, the interpreter proves himself a valuable member as he deduces an ambush lurking ahead of the unit.
As on-screen text reads, the U.S. responded to 9/11 by deploying troops to Afghanistan. As the number of troops rose across the next decade, the U.S. military employed Afghan interpreters under an agreement that they would be eligible for Special Immigration Visas and relocation to America. That work is seen as the film flashes to 2018, when a routine check ends with a vehicle explosion and lives lost.
Sergeant John Kinley (Jake Gyllenhaal) leads a unit whose mission is to locate Taliban firearms and munitions, which includes a replacement interpreter in the form of Ahmed (Dar Salim). While considerably disliked, the interpreter proves himself a valuable member as he deduces an ambush lurking ahead of the unit.
- 6/14/2023
- by James Rodrigues
- Nerdly
Two new featurettes on the making of Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant are available. Check them out right here on CinemaNerdz!
First, learn more about the powerful relationships forged between interpreters and soldiers in the “Battle Ready” featurette (above). Then, take a look inside the film’s incredible performances with the “Beyond the Uniform” featurette (below).
Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant follows US Army Sergeant John Kinley (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Afghan interpreter Ahmed (Dar Salim). After an ambush, Ahmed goes to Herculean lengths to save Kinley’s life. When Kinley learns that Ahmed and his family were not given safe passage to America as promised, he must repay his debt by returning to the war zone to retrieve them before the Taliban hunts them down first.
About The Film
Genre: Action, Thriller Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Dar Salim, Antony Starr, Alexander Ludwig, Bobby Schofield, Emily Beecham, Jonny Lee Miller Director: Guy...
First, learn more about the powerful relationships forged between interpreters and soldiers in the “Battle Ready” featurette (above). Then, take a look inside the film’s incredible performances with the “Beyond the Uniform” featurette (below).
Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant follows US Army Sergeant John Kinley (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Afghan interpreter Ahmed (Dar Salim). After an ambush, Ahmed goes to Herculean lengths to save Kinley’s life. When Kinley learns that Ahmed and his family were not given safe passage to America as promised, he must repay his debt by returning to the war zone to retrieve them before the Taliban hunts them down first.
About The Film
Genre: Action, Thriller Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Dar Salim, Antony Starr, Alexander Ludwig, Bobby Schofield, Emily Beecham, Jonny Lee Miller Director: Guy...
- 4/22/2023
- by Editor
- CinemaNerdz
Dar Salim (left) as Ahmed and Jake Gyllenhaal (right) as Sgt. John Kinley in ‘The Covenant’ (Photo
Credit: Christopher Raphael © 2023 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Inc)
Filmmaker Guy Ritchie steps out of his comfort zone of flashy action scenes and characters with witty stylish dialogue to take on a down-to-earth, gritty, serious war story about loyalty and courage with Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant.
The film focuses on U.S. Army Sergeant John Kinley (Jake Gyllenhaal) and his unit hunting for Taliban forces in Afghanistan. During a routine checkpoint, the unit’s interpreter is killed when a bomb explodes. Back at the airbase, Kinley handpicks a new Afghan interpreter, Ahmed (Dar Salim), despite his reputation of being hard to get along with.
It’s not long before Kinley and Ahmed are strongly disagreeing on how to go about hunting the Taliban. On one dirt road search, Ahmed tells Kinley to stop and that they...
Credit: Christopher Raphael © 2023 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Inc)
Filmmaker Guy Ritchie steps out of his comfort zone of flashy action scenes and characters with witty stylish dialogue to take on a down-to-earth, gritty, serious war story about loyalty and courage with Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant.
The film focuses on U.S. Army Sergeant John Kinley (Jake Gyllenhaal) and his unit hunting for Taliban forces in Afghanistan. During a routine checkpoint, the unit’s interpreter is killed when a bomb explodes. Back at the airbase, Kinley handpicks a new Afghan interpreter, Ahmed (Dar Salim), despite his reputation of being hard to get along with.
It’s not long before Kinley and Ahmed are strongly disagreeing on how to go about hunting the Taliban. On one dirt road search, Ahmed tells Kinley to stop and that they...
- 4/21/2023
- by Kevin Finnerty
- Showbiz Junkies
Chicago – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Dan Baker on Wbgr-fm on April 20th, reviewing “The Covenant,” which features Jake Gyllenhaal in a tense war drama, set in Afghanistan. In theaters on April 21st.
Rating: 4.0/5.0
The film is set during the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan. Jake Gyllenhaal is John Kinley, an Army reconnaissance expert searching for the Taliban enemy who plants IEDs on the roadsides. He takes in a new interpreter named Ahmed (Dar Salim) who has a deeper revenge factor against the enemy. In their mission, they fall into an ambush, and Kinley is severely injured. In an incredible turn of events, Ahmed drags Kinley for miles back to the base, even though they’re on the Taliban most wanted list. The military finds Kinley but Ahmed disappears, so the now army veteran wants to go back in country to find his friend.
Rating: 4.0/5.0
The film is set during the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan. Jake Gyllenhaal is John Kinley, an Army reconnaissance expert searching for the Taliban enemy who plants IEDs on the roadsides. He takes in a new interpreter named Ahmed (Dar Salim) who has a deeper revenge factor against the enemy. In their mission, they fall into an ambush, and Kinley is severely injured. In an incredible turn of events, Ahmed drags Kinley for miles back to the base, even though they’re on the Taliban most wanted list. The military finds Kinley but Ahmed disappears, so the now army veteran wants to go back in country to find his friend.
- 4/21/2023
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
I’m not sure why director Guy Ritchie has his name in the title of his latest film, but because this is I think the best Ritchie movie I have seen, I will pass up the chance to snark at the only misstep in Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant. It about as exciting, gripping and moving as war films get — especially one set in the murky Afghanistan conflict in which the U.S. found itself immersed for more than two decades.
This smartly focuses on two men, the apparently iconic U.S. Army Sgt. John Kinley (Jake Gyllenhaal) and his Afghan interpreter Ahmed (Dar Salim). And no, this is not based on real people, at least not by name, but rather is a fictional account of what many involved in that war went through, and in the case of the interpreters, still are going through (the film’s end credits state...
This smartly focuses on two men, the apparently iconic U.S. Army Sgt. John Kinley (Jake Gyllenhaal) and his Afghan interpreter Ahmed (Dar Salim). And no, this is not based on real people, at least not by name, but rather is a fictional account of what many involved in that war went through, and in the case of the interpreters, still are going through (the film’s end credits state...
- 4/19/2023
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
The decision to re-title “The Interpreter” to “Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant” is an odd one, at least on the surface. For 25 years, the filmmaker’s forte has been whiz-bang action-crime movies like “Snatch,” “RocknRolla,” and the recently released “Operation Fortune,” in which his (usually English) characters rattle off banter like actors in an improv warm-up game.
“The Covenant,” on the other hand, is arguably the director’s first foray into purely dramatic territory, the kind that has thus far occupied the margins of his work. It’s an Afghanistan war film about duty and guilt, focused on a U.S. soldier’s debt to his Afghan interpreter. The premise is hardly “Ritchie-esque” upon first glance, with a straightforward intensity that conceals no surprise tonal oscillations. However, it remains firmly within Ritchie’s stylistic wheelhouse — his command of the swiftly moving camera, and its focus on violent masculine subjects,...
“The Covenant,” on the other hand, is arguably the director’s first foray into purely dramatic territory, the kind that has thus far occupied the margins of his work. It’s an Afghanistan war film about duty and guilt, focused on a U.S. soldier’s debt to his Afghan interpreter. The premise is hardly “Ritchie-esque” upon first glance, with a straightforward intensity that conceals no surprise tonal oscillations. However, it remains firmly within Ritchie’s stylistic wheelhouse — his command of the swiftly moving camera, and its focus on violent masculine subjects,...
- 4/18/2023
- by Siddhant Adlakha
- Indiewire
After building a career on flashy action, explosive set pieces and quippy bad-boy dialogue, Guy Ritchie dials things down to a pleasing degree, focusing more on human factors like honor, loyalty and dogged perseverance in the war thriller The Covenant. That doesn’t mean the director has abandoned his taste for brawny physical elements. But this is a serious-minded, well-acted drama that shows just as keen an interest in character, specifically the integrity of two men from vastly different cultures who provide the story of brotherhood and survival with its racing pulse.
The official title of the MGM/STX release is Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant, and while it’s tempting to respond with an eye roll to the Brit director’s elevation to auteur status 25 years into his highly variable career, the reasoning behind the decision reportedly was to distinguish the film from the dire 2006 horror thriller of the same name.
The official title of the MGM/STX release is Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant, and while it’s tempting to respond with an eye roll to the Brit director’s elevation to auteur status 25 years into his highly variable career, the reasoning behind the decision reportedly was to distinguish the film from the dire 2006 horror thriller of the same name.
- 4/18/2023
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Guy Ritchie is facing a lawsuit for his Matthew McConaughey-led film “The Gentlemen”.
The lawsuit was filed last month in the London High Court by writer and actor Mickey De Hara, who claims he was hired by Ritchie to write a sequel to his 2008 gangster flick “RockNRolla”. De Hara delivered the screenplay, “about a protagonist who runs a marijuana business,” as per Variety, to Ritchie in 2018, however he claims the director told him that “the time of the gangster movie was over,” suggesting the project was axed.
Nonetheless, “The Gentlemen” was released two years later.
De Hara claims that the film, which also stars Charlie Hunnam and Michelle Dockery, is a “substantial” reproduction of his script, given McConaughey portrays a gangster named Mickey who is trying to sell off his marijuana empire.
Read More: ‘The Covenant’: Jake Gyllenhaal Is A Man On A Mission In New Guy Ritchie...
The lawsuit was filed last month in the London High Court by writer and actor Mickey De Hara, who claims he was hired by Ritchie to write a sequel to his 2008 gangster flick “RockNRolla”. De Hara delivered the screenplay, “about a protagonist who runs a marijuana business,” as per Variety, to Ritchie in 2018, however he claims the director told him that “the time of the gangster movie was over,” suggesting the project was axed.
Nonetheless, “The Gentlemen” was released two years later.
De Hara claims that the film, which also stars Charlie Hunnam and Michelle Dockery, is a “substantial” reproduction of his script, given McConaughey portrays a gangster named Mickey who is trying to sell off his marijuana empire.
Read More: ‘The Covenant’: Jake Gyllenhaal Is A Man On A Mission In New Guy Ritchie...
- 4/16/2023
- by Melissa Romualdi
- ET Canada
Guy Ritchie is reportedly being sued over his film The Gentlemen, with writer Mickey De Hara claiming that Ritchie copied scenes from a script he had submitted to the director.
The 2020 gangster movie follows a kingpin called Mickey (Matthew McConaughey), who tries to sell off his marijuana empire. Read The Independent’s one-star review here.
In a lawsuit, which was filed in the London High Court last month and has been seen by US entertainment publication Variety, De Hara claims that Ritchie commissioned him to write a sequel to the 2008 gangster film RockNRolla, based on De Hara’s “personal life experiences” – he was once convicted of possession of cocaine and cannabis “with intent to supply”, for which he faced jail time.
De Hara reportedly claims that, in 2018, after he had sent Ritchie his screenplay about a protagonist who runs a marijuana business, Ritchie told him “the time of the gangster...
The 2020 gangster movie follows a kingpin called Mickey (Matthew McConaughey), who tries to sell off his marijuana empire. Read The Independent’s one-star review here.
In a lawsuit, which was filed in the London High Court last month and has been seen by US entertainment publication Variety, De Hara claims that Ritchie commissioned him to write a sequel to the 2008 gangster film RockNRolla, based on De Hara’s “personal life experiences” – he was once convicted of possession of cocaine and cannabis “with intent to supply”, for which he faced jail time.
De Hara reportedly claims that, in 2018, after he had sent Ritchie his screenplay about a protagonist who runs a marijuana business, Ritchie told him “the time of the gangster...
- 4/15/2023
- by Ellie Harrison
- The Independent - Film
Los Angeles, April 15 (Ians) Filmmaker Guy Ritchie is being sued over his film ‘The Gentlemen’, which starred Matthew McConaughey, Charlie Hunnam and Michelle Dockery.
The lawsuit, which was filed in the London High Court last month by actor and writer Mickey De Hara, says that Ritchie commissioned De Hara to write a sequel to the 2008 gangster movie ‘RockNRolla’ based on De Hara’s “personal life experiences,” reports ‘Variety’.
But in 2018, after De Hara delivered the screenplay about a protagonist who runs a marijuana business, Ritchie told him “the time of the gangster movie was over,” intimating the project was no longer in development.
Two years later, Ritchie released ‘The Gentlemen’, in which McConaughey plays a gangster called Mickey who is trying to sell off his marijuana empire. De Hara claims the film is a “substantial” reproduction of his screenplay.
According to the lawsuit, ‘The Gentlemen’ copies De Hara’s cast of characters,...
The lawsuit, which was filed in the London High Court last month by actor and writer Mickey De Hara, says that Ritchie commissioned De Hara to write a sequel to the 2008 gangster movie ‘RockNRolla’ based on De Hara’s “personal life experiences,” reports ‘Variety’.
But in 2018, after De Hara delivered the screenplay about a protagonist who runs a marijuana business, Ritchie told him “the time of the gangster movie was over,” intimating the project was no longer in development.
Two years later, Ritchie released ‘The Gentlemen’, in which McConaughey plays a gangster called Mickey who is trying to sell off his marijuana empire. De Hara claims the film is a “substantial” reproduction of his screenplay.
According to the lawsuit, ‘The Gentlemen’ copies De Hara’s cast of characters,...
- 4/15/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
Guy Ritchie is being sued over his film “The Gentlemen,” which starred Matthew McConaughey, Charlie Hunnam and Michelle Dockery.
The lawsuit, which was filed in the London High Court last month by actor and writer Mickey De Hara, claims that Ritchie commissioned De Hara to write a sequel to the 2008 gangster movie “RockNRolla” based on De Hara’s “personal life experiences.”.
But in 2018, after De Hara delivered the screenplay about a protagonist who runs a marijuana business., Ritchie told him “the time of the gangster movie was over,” intimating the project was no longer in development.
Two years later, Ritchie released “The Gentlemen,” in which McConaughey plays a gangster called Mickey who is trying to sell off his marijuana empire. De Hara claims the film is a “substantial” reproduction of his screenplay.
According to the lawsuit, “The Gentlemen” copies De Hara’s cast of characters, their characterization and “unique aspects...
The lawsuit, which was filed in the London High Court last month by actor and writer Mickey De Hara, claims that Ritchie commissioned De Hara to write a sequel to the 2008 gangster movie “RockNRolla” based on De Hara’s “personal life experiences.”.
But in 2018, after De Hara delivered the screenplay about a protagonist who runs a marijuana business., Ritchie told him “the time of the gangster movie was over,” intimating the project was no longer in development.
Two years later, Ritchie released “The Gentlemen,” in which McConaughey plays a gangster called Mickey who is trying to sell off his marijuana empire. De Hara claims the film is a “substantial” reproduction of his screenplay.
According to the lawsuit, “The Gentlemen” copies De Hara’s cast of characters, their characterization and “unique aspects...
- 4/14/2023
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
Jake Gyllenhaal and co-writer/director Guy Ritchie briefly discuss their new action film The Covenant in this short behind-the-scenes featurette. Ritchie describes the story as an inspiring concept of what one person’s prepared to do for another when push comes to shove.
Gyllenhaal, who plays US Army Sergeant John Kinley, adds: “Like any great action movie, at the heart of it is a real relationship and I think in the end you will be moved.”
The action thriller also stars Dar Salim (Game of Thrones), Antony Starr (The Boys), Alexander Ludwig (Heels), Bobby Schofield (Black Sea), Emily Beecham (1899), and Jonny Lee Miller (The Crown). Ivan Atkinson and Marn Davies co-wrote the screenplay, and Ritchie, Atkinson, John Friedberg, and Josh Berger serve as producers. Samantha Waite, Olga Filipuk, Robert Simonds, and Adam Fogelson executive produce.
The R-rated drama opens in theaters on April 21, 2023.
Dar Salim (left) as Ahmed and Jake Gyllenhaal (right) as Sgt.
Gyllenhaal, who plays US Army Sergeant John Kinley, adds: “Like any great action movie, at the heart of it is a real relationship and I think in the end you will be moved.”
The action thriller also stars Dar Salim (Game of Thrones), Antony Starr (The Boys), Alexander Ludwig (Heels), Bobby Schofield (Black Sea), Emily Beecham (1899), and Jonny Lee Miller (The Crown). Ivan Atkinson and Marn Davies co-wrote the screenplay, and Ritchie, Atkinson, John Friedberg, and Josh Berger serve as producers. Samantha Waite, Olga Filipuk, Robert Simonds, and Adam Fogelson executive produce.
The R-rated drama opens in theaters on April 21, 2023.
Dar Salim (left) as Ahmed and Jake Gyllenhaal (right) as Sgt.
- 3/30/2023
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
Guy Ritchie’s newest film shows audiences the lengths one man will go to in order to keep his promise.
MGM Pictures released a featurette for the film on Thursday, giving fans a first-look at the tense war drama “The Covenant” starring Jake Gyllenhaal.
Read More: ‘The Covenant’: Jake Gyllenhaal Is A Man On A Mission In New Guy Ritchie Film
It follows US Army Sergeant John Kinley (Gyllenhaal) and Afghan interpreter Ahmed (Dar Salim). After an ambush, Ahmed goes to Herculean lengths to save Kinley’s life. When Kinley learns that Ahmed and his family were not given safe passage to America as promised, he must repay his debt by returning to the war zone to retrieve them before the Taliban hunts them down first.
“What do we do when someone saves our life?” questions Gyllenhaal in the clip. “Like any great action movie, at the heart of...
MGM Pictures released a featurette for the film on Thursday, giving fans a first-look at the tense war drama “The Covenant” starring Jake Gyllenhaal.
Read More: ‘The Covenant’: Jake Gyllenhaal Is A Man On A Mission In New Guy Ritchie Film
It follows US Army Sergeant John Kinley (Gyllenhaal) and Afghan interpreter Ahmed (Dar Salim). After an ambush, Ahmed goes to Herculean lengths to save Kinley’s life. When Kinley learns that Ahmed and his family were not given safe passage to America as promised, he must repay his debt by returning to the war zone to retrieve them before the Taliban hunts them down first.
“What do we do when someone saves our life?” questions Gyllenhaal in the clip. “Like any great action movie, at the heart of...
- 3/30/2023
- by Anita Tai
- ET Canada
STX Films and MGM are ready to tug your heartstrings out of your chest, then leave them to bake under a hot desert sun for Guy Ritchie’sThe Covenant. The studios deployed a first look featurette for the film on Thursday, featuring Jake Gyllenhaal and Dar Salim going behind enemy lines to keep each other alive. The preview of the upcoming action-thriller includes commentary from Gyllenhaal, Salim, and Ritchie, who say the film is an emotional and action-packed journey from start to finish.
Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant comes from a script he wrote with Ivan Atkinson and Marn Davies. Antony Starr (The Boys), Alexander Ludwig (Vikings), Bobby Schofield (Cherry), Emily Beecham (Little Joe), and Johnny Lee Miller (Mindhunters) also star.
Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant follows US Army Sergeant John Kinley (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Afghan interpreter Ahmed (Dar Salim). After an ambush, Ahmed goes to Herculean lengths to save Kinley’s life.
Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant comes from a script he wrote with Ivan Atkinson and Marn Davies. Antony Starr (The Boys), Alexander Ludwig (Vikings), Bobby Schofield (Cherry), Emily Beecham (Little Joe), and Johnny Lee Miller (Mindhunters) also star.
Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant follows US Army Sergeant John Kinley (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Afghan interpreter Ahmed (Dar Salim). After an ambush, Ahmed goes to Herculean lengths to save Kinley’s life.
- 3/30/2023
- by Steve Seigh
- JoBlo.com
Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre Review — Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre (2023) Film Review, a movie directed by Guy Ritchie, written by Ivan Atkinson, Marn Davies and Guy Ritchie and starring Jason Statham, Hugh Grant, Aubrey Plaza, Josh Hartnett, Cary Elwes, Bugzy Malone, Eddie Marsan, Peter Ferdinando, Lourdes Faberes, Sam Douglas, Tom Rosenthal, Oliver [...]
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Continue reading: Film Review: Operation Fortune: Ruse De Guerre (2023): Guy Ritchie is Back with an Original and Intriguing Caper Film...
- 3/4/2023
- by Thomas Duffy
- Film-Book
Quick question: Have you seen The Man From U.N.C.L.E.?
We don’t mean the popular TV show of the 1960s, in which Robert Vaughn and David McCallum surfed the era’s espionage-a-go-go wave and brought big Bond-style adventure to the little screen every week. We’re talking about the 2015 movie that wanted to replicate the series’ vintage spy-vs.-spy mojo, pairing Henry “Dude Cocks His Arms Like Shotguns!” Cavill and another gent whose name currently escapes us as a next-gen Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin, respectively.
We don’t mean the popular TV show of the 1960s, in which Robert Vaughn and David McCallum surfed the era’s espionage-a-go-go wave and brought big Bond-style adventure to the little screen every week. We’re talking about the 2015 movie that wanted to replicate the series’ vintage spy-vs.-spy mojo, pairing Henry “Dude Cocks His Arms Like Shotguns!” Cavill and another gent whose name currently escapes us as a next-gen Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin, respectively.
- 3/3/2023
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
When a movie gets tangled up in all kinds of financial problems, delayed for over a year, played out internationally, sent straight to streaming in Canada, and then finally getting the green light to open in the U.S. via a new distributor and thrown into theaters with virtually no notice or time to mount a marketing campaign, you have to think there must be something very wrong here.
Well surprise, surprise. The awkwardly titled Operation Fortune: Ruse De Guerre is loads of fun, an entertaining spy thriller that is faithful to the genre, very well cast, and a hoot to watch. Caught up in the STX mess and then handled by Miramax and a distribution service deal for Lionsgate, the film has been played out in much of the world but is finally being released stateside in a theatrical run that has been so rushed it sadly may not...
Well surprise, surprise. The awkwardly titled Operation Fortune: Ruse De Guerre is loads of fun, an entertaining spy thriller that is faithful to the genre, very well cast, and a hoot to watch. Caught up in the STX mess and then handled by Miramax and a distribution service deal for Lionsgate, the film has been played out in much of the world but is finally being released stateside in a theatrical run that has been so rushed it sadly may not...
- 3/1/2023
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
When it comes to the genre playgrounds he loves so much, is Guy Ritchie better off being himself or playing along? His brash, bad-lad calling cards were never terribly original, but their style-to-burn derivativeness had spirit. His Hollywood larks never felt honest but the occasional glimpse of a bruiser’s cockiness made for colorful upgrades in the IP machinery.
After Ritchie’s return to leaner (but never in the dialogue) roots with the comically shaggy, seedy gangster wingding “The Gentlemen,” and reteaming with his best contribution to cinema — Jason Statham — for the brackish vengeance puddle “Wrath of Man,” the British filmmaker is once again aiming for sleek and starry heights with the spy-driven action comedy “Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre.”
Statham is the “Fortune” of the title, first name Orson, an elite for-hire operative with clever ideas and expensive tastes, hired by intelligence agency rep Nathan (Cary Elwes) to determine...
After Ritchie’s return to leaner (but never in the dialogue) roots with the comically shaggy, seedy gangster wingding “The Gentlemen,” and reteaming with his best contribution to cinema — Jason Statham — for the brackish vengeance puddle “Wrath of Man,” the British filmmaker is once again aiming for sleek and starry heights with the spy-driven action comedy “Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre.”
Statham is the “Fortune” of the title, first name Orson, an elite for-hire operative with clever ideas and expensive tastes, hired by intelligence agency rep Nathan (Cary Elwes) to determine...
- 3/1/2023
- by Robert Abele
- The Wrap
It’s pretty easy to tell that Guy Ritchie’s new action comedy has been sitting on the shelf for a while. After all, its villains include Ukrainian gangsters. Not that there aren’t still gangsters in Ukraine, but let’s just say the timing isn’t ideal.
The film’s title provides a hint of its dumbness. Sure, the use of a French phrase is impressive. But the “Fortune” in Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre doesn’t refer to the name of the mission, but rather the leading character, a mercenary secret agent named Orson Fortune, played by Jason Statham. It could have been worse. If he were still playing his character from Crank, the film would have been called Operation Chev Chelios.
If this seems like a digression, it’s because there’s not a lot to say about this effort for which the word “derivative” must have been invented.
The film’s title provides a hint of its dumbness. Sure, the use of a French phrase is impressive. But the “Fortune” in Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre doesn’t refer to the name of the mission, but rather the leading character, a mercenary secret agent named Orson Fortune, played by Jason Statham. It could have been worse. If he were still playing his character from Crank, the film would have been called Operation Chev Chelios.
If this seems like a digression, it’s because there’s not a lot to say about this effort for which the word “derivative” must have been invented.
- 3/1/2023
- by Frank Scheck
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
From awards shows to heist thrillers, there’s nothing that can’t be improved by a little Aubrey Plaza. Though Guy Ritchie’s latest crime comedy may feel ten years behind the ball, his casting of Plaza as a badass operative proves he’s not completely out of touch.
Bearing the clunky title “Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre,” Ritchie had no trouble assembling an impressive A-list ensemble for the action-packed caper — mostly of the British variety. As the ever-reliable Jason Statham and Hugh Grant go head to head, . If she can keep an operation this overstuffed afloat, there’s nothing she cannot do.
“Operation Fortune” boasts a grab bag of familiar elements that don’t entirely cohere, including a cranky leading man and a movie star playing a movie star bit that doesn’t quite land. The plot revolves around a reluctant free agent named Orson Fortune (Statham), who is...
Bearing the clunky title “Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre,” Ritchie had no trouble assembling an impressive A-list ensemble for the action-packed caper — mostly of the British variety. As the ever-reliable Jason Statham and Hugh Grant go head to head, . If she can keep an operation this overstuffed afloat, there’s nothing she cannot do.
“Operation Fortune” boasts a grab bag of familiar elements that don’t entirely cohere, including a cranky leading man and a movie star playing a movie star bit that doesn’t quite land. The plot revolves around a reluctant free agent named Orson Fortune (Statham), who is...
- 3/1/2023
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
For 25 years, I have never been much of a Guy Ritchie fan. I found the in-your-face-and-over-the-top crime dramas that made his reputation — “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels,” “Snatch,” “Revolver,” and “RocknRolla” — to be empty-flashy exercises in the too-muchness of genre kinetics, overly infatuated with their post-Tarantino cutthroat cool. It was clear that Ritchie had talent, but the way just about every shot in his movies was designed to remind you of that turned the films into layer cakes that were more frosting than cake. After a while, he dropped the badass glitz and settled into a more conventional career, and some of those movies were okay. I confess that I enjoyed his remake of “Swept Away”, and he had fun applying what was left of his high-froth Add style to the Robert Downey Jr. “Sherlock Holmes” franchise. Yet I could never escape the feeling that Guy Ritchie had...
- 3/1/2023
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
Aubrey Plaza isn’t Jason Statham’s best employee in Guy Ritchie’s latest spy action movie.
“Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre” follows super spy Orson Fortune (Statham) who is tasked with tracking down a billionaire arms broker (Hugh Grant) who is behind deadly new weapon technology. Orson enlists the help of international operatives, played by Aubrey Plaza, Cary Elwes, Bugzy Malone, plus movie star Danny Francesco (Josh Hartnett) to save the world.
Lionsgate is set to release the Miramax film in theaters, directed by Ritchie and co-written by Ivan Atkinson and Marn Davies. Ritchie, Atkinson, and Bill Block produce “Operation Fortune,” which marks Miramax’s third film collaboration with Ritchie behind “The Gentleman” and “Wrath of Man.” Lionsgate is also set to distribute Ritchie’s upcoming “Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare” film.
“Operation Fortune” was co-financed by Miramax and STX Entertainment. The feature was originally set to debut in January...
“Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre” follows super spy Orson Fortune (Statham) who is tasked with tracking down a billionaire arms broker (Hugh Grant) who is behind deadly new weapon technology. Orson enlists the help of international operatives, played by Aubrey Plaza, Cary Elwes, Bugzy Malone, plus movie star Danny Francesco (Josh Hartnett) to save the world.
Lionsgate is set to release the Miramax film in theaters, directed by Ritchie and co-written by Ivan Atkinson and Marn Davies. Ritchie, Atkinson, and Bill Block produce “Operation Fortune,” which marks Miramax’s third film collaboration with Ritchie behind “The Gentleman” and “Wrath of Man.” Lionsgate is also set to distribute Ritchie’s upcoming “Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare” film.
“Operation Fortune” was co-financed by Miramax and STX Entertainment. The feature was originally set to debut in January...
- 2/13/2023
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Guy Ritchie action comedy to reach US cinemas a year after sale of producer STX.
Lionsgate has set a March 3 US theatrical launch for Guy Ritchie’s long-delayed action comedy Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre.
Co-financed by Miramax and STX Entertainment, Operation Fortune was one of the films affected by the sale of STX to The Najafi Companies last spring, following which some unreleased STX projects were expected to get streaming-only releases. The sale was followed by reports of a distribution deal for the STX films with Lionsgate.
Starring Jason Statham, Hugh Grant, Aubrey Plaza, Josh Hartnett, Cary Elwes and Bugzy Malone,...
Lionsgate has set a March 3 US theatrical launch for Guy Ritchie’s long-delayed action comedy Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre.
Co-financed by Miramax and STX Entertainment, Operation Fortune was one of the films affected by the sale of STX to The Najafi Companies last spring, following which some unreleased STX projects were expected to get streaming-only releases. The sale was followed by reports of a distribution deal for the STX films with Lionsgate.
Starring Jason Statham, Hugh Grant, Aubrey Plaza, Josh Hartnett, Cary Elwes and Bugzy Malone,...
- 2/13/2023
- by John Hazelton
- ScreenDaily
Lionsgate is set as the distributor for the action-comedy Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre, helmed for Miramax by Guy Ritchie. The film starring Jason Statham (F9), Hugh Grant (Glass Onion), Aubrey Plaza (The White Lotus), Josh Hartnett (Lucky Number Slevin), Cary Elwes (Rebel Moon) and Bugzy Malone (The Gentlemen) will be released in the U.S. on March 3.
Pic will contend in its opening weekend at the box office with MGM/Uar’s Creed III, directed by and starring Michael B. Jordan, as well as the horror-thriller Hunt Her, Kill Her from Welcome Villain Films. Its story centers on super spy Orson Fortune (Statham), who must track down and stop the sale of a deadly new weapons technology wielded by billionaire arms broker Greg Simmonds (Grant). Reluctantly teamed with some of the world’s best operatives, Fortune and his crew recruit Hollywood’s biggest movie star Danny...
Pic will contend in its opening weekend at the box office with MGM/Uar’s Creed III, directed by and starring Michael B. Jordan, as well as the horror-thriller Hunt Her, Kill Her from Welcome Villain Films. Its story centers on super spy Orson Fortune (Statham), who must track down and stop the sale of a deadly new weapons technology wielded by billionaire arms broker Greg Simmonds (Grant). Reluctantly teamed with some of the world’s best operatives, Fortune and his crew recruit Hollywood’s biggest movie star Danny...
- 2/13/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Lionsgate will release Guy Ritchie’s action-comedy Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre domestically on March 3.
The film, previously titled Five Eyes, stars Jason Statham, Hugh Grant, Aubrey Plaza, Josh Hartnett, Cary Elwes and Bugzy Malone. It will hit theaters opposite Michael B. Jordan’s Creed 3.
Operation Fortune, co-financed by Miramax and STX Entertainment, has Statham playing super spy Orson Fortune as he tracks down and stops the sale of a deadly new weapons technology wielded by billionaire arms broker Greg Simmonds (Grant).
Plaza, Elwes and Malone appear as skilled operators who, along with Fortune, recruit Hollywood’s biggest movie star, Danny Francesco (Josh Hartnett), to help them save the world. Ritchie directs from a screenplay he wrote with Ivan Atkinson and Marn Davies (The Gentlemen, Wrath of Man).
Ritchie and Statham previously worked together on Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch. And Ritchie and Miramax collaborated on...
The film, previously titled Five Eyes, stars Jason Statham, Hugh Grant, Aubrey Plaza, Josh Hartnett, Cary Elwes and Bugzy Malone. It will hit theaters opposite Michael B. Jordan’s Creed 3.
Operation Fortune, co-financed by Miramax and STX Entertainment, has Statham playing super spy Orson Fortune as he tracks down and stops the sale of a deadly new weapons technology wielded by billionaire arms broker Greg Simmonds (Grant).
Plaza, Elwes and Malone appear as skilled operators who, along with Fortune, recruit Hollywood’s biggest movie star, Danny Francesco (Josh Hartnett), to help them save the world. Ritchie directs from a screenplay he wrote with Ivan Atkinson and Marn Davies (The Gentlemen, Wrath of Man).
Ritchie and Statham previously worked together on Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch. And Ritchie and Miramax collaborated on...
- 2/13/2023
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
With cameras just about ready to roll on The Ministry Of Ungentlemanly Warfare_, is yet to see a release here (or in much of the world), but in that it’s not exactly typical Guy Ritchie fare, even with lashings of muscular action. Oh, and yes, his name actually is in the official title. Check out the trailer here:
No London. No geezers. No gangsters. No quips. No dodgy nicknames. The Gentlemen this most assuredly ain’t. Instead, Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant – initially titled The Interpreter – looks like a tense, emotionally-driven military thriller that’s more concerned with the effects of war than the FX of it all.
Written by the Wrath Of Man director alongside regular collaborators Ivan Atkinson and Marn Davies, the story here centres on Jake Gyllenhaal’s Army Sergeant John Kinley, who ends up being rescued by his interpreter (Dar Salim) when a tour in...
No London. No geezers. No gangsters. No quips. No dodgy nicknames. The Gentlemen this most assuredly ain’t. Instead, Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant – initially titled The Interpreter – looks like a tense, emotionally-driven military thriller that’s more concerned with the effects of war than the FX of it all.
Written by the Wrath Of Man director alongside regular collaborators Ivan Atkinson and Marn Davies, the story here centres on Jake Gyllenhaal’s Army Sergeant John Kinley, who ends up being rescued by his interpreter (Dar Salim) when a tour in...
- 2/6/2023
- by Jordan King
- Empire - Movies
The Covenant Trailer — Guy Ritchie‘s The Covenant (2023) movie trailer has been released by MGM Studios. The Covenant trailer stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Dar Salim, Antony Starr, Alexander Ludwig, Bobby Schofield, Emily Beecham and Jonny Lee Miller. Crew Guy Ritchie, Ivan Atkinson, and Marn Davies wrote the screenplay for The Covenant. “Produced by Guy Ritchie, Ivan [...]
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Continue reading: The Covenant (2023) Movie Trailer: Army Sgt. Jake Gyllenhaal returns to Afghanistan For His Interpreter & His Family...
- 2/3/2023
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
Jake Gyllenhaal has unfinished business to resolve in the first trailer for director Guy Ritchie’s upcoming film The Covenant.
The MGM military thriller, hitting theaters April 21, stars Gyllenhaal as Army Sergeant John Kinley, who is rescued during a tour in Afghanistan by his interpreter, played by Dar Salim. The footage shows Kinley grappling with whether to put himself back in harm’s way to rescue Ahmed.
“If it wasn’t enough for him to carry me across those mountains, now he’s hiding in a hole somewhere,” Gyllenhaal’s character says somberly in the trailer. “I should be in that hole.”
He later adds, “Ahmed and his family are in trouble. I am gonna have to get him out myself.”
The cast also includes Alexander Ludwig, Antony Starr, Jason Wong, Bobby Schofield, Sean Sagar, Sina Parvaneh, Emily Beecham, Cyrus Khodaveisi and Christian Ochoa.
Initially entitled The Interpreter, Ritchie wrote...
The MGM military thriller, hitting theaters April 21, stars Gyllenhaal as Army Sergeant John Kinley, who is rescued during a tour in Afghanistan by his interpreter, played by Dar Salim. The footage shows Kinley grappling with whether to put himself back in harm’s way to rescue Ahmed.
“If it wasn’t enough for him to carry me across those mountains, now he’s hiding in a hole somewhere,” Gyllenhaal’s character says somberly in the trailer. “I should be in that hole.”
He later adds, “Ahmed and his family are in trouble. I am gonna have to get him out myself.”
The cast also includes Alexander Ludwig, Antony Starr, Jason Wong, Bobby Schofield, Sean Sagar, Sina Parvaneh, Emily Beecham, Cyrus Khodaveisi and Christian Ochoa.
Initially entitled The Interpreter, Ritchie wrote...
- 2/2/2023
- by Ryan Gajewski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Jake Gyllenhaal stars as an Army Sergeant who makes it his mission to rescue the Afghan interpreter who saved his life in Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant. STX Films and MGM’s official trailer sets up their relationship and teases that Gyllenhaal will be facing extraordinary odds if he wants to save his friend.
In addition to Oscar nominee Jake Gyllenhaal, the cast includes Dar Salim (Game of Thrones), Antony Starr (The Boys), Alexander Ludwig (Heels), Bobby Schofield (Black Sea), Emily Beecham (1899), and Jonny Lee Miller (The Crown).
Guy Ritchie directed, produced, and co-wrote the screenplay with Ivan Atkinson and Marn Davies. Ivan Atkinson, John Friedberg, and Josh Berger produced, and Samantha Waite, Olga Filipuk, Robert Simonds, and Adam Fogelson executive produced.
The R-rated thriller opens in theaters on April 21, 2023.
The Covenant Plot:
Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant follows US Army Sergeant John Kinley (Gyllenhaal) and Afghan interpreter Ahmed (Salim). After an ambush,...
In addition to Oscar nominee Jake Gyllenhaal, the cast includes Dar Salim (Game of Thrones), Antony Starr (The Boys), Alexander Ludwig (Heels), Bobby Schofield (Black Sea), Emily Beecham (1899), and Jonny Lee Miller (The Crown).
Guy Ritchie directed, produced, and co-wrote the screenplay with Ivan Atkinson and Marn Davies. Ivan Atkinson, John Friedberg, and Josh Berger produced, and Samantha Waite, Olga Filipuk, Robert Simonds, and Adam Fogelson executive produced.
The R-rated thriller opens in theaters on April 21, 2023.
The Covenant Plot:
Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant follows US Army Sergeant John Kinley (Gyllenhaal) and Afghan interpreter Ahmed (Salim). After an ambush,...
- 2/2/2023
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
Jake Gyllenhaal and Guy Ritchie are teaming up in his newest film.
MGM Pictures announced “The Covenant” on Thursday, releasing an official trailer and the poster for the upcoming film.
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The actor stars as US Army Sergeant John Kinley who worked with Afghan interpreter Ahmed, played by Dar Salim. When Kinley learns Ahmed and his family were not given safe passage to America as promised, he will stop at nothing to rescue the interpreter and pay back his debt before the Taliban hunts them down.
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Dar Salim (left) as Ahmed and Jake Gyllenhaal (right) as Sgt. John Kinley in The Covenant, directed by Guy Ritchie, a Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures film.Photo: Christopher Raphael / Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures
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MGM Pictures announced “The Covenant” on Thursday, releasing an official trailer and the poster for the upcoming film.
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The actor stars as US Army Sergeant John Kinley who worked with Afghan interpreter Ahmed, played by Dar Salim. When Kinley learns Ahmed and his family were not given safe passage to America as promised, he will stop at nothing to rescue the interpreter and pay back his debt before the Taliban hunts them down.
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Dar Salim (left) as Ahmed and Jake Gyllenhaal (right) as Sgt. John Kinley in The Covenant, directed by Guy Ritchie, a Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures film.Photo: Christopher Raphael / Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures
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- 2/2/2023
- by Anita Tai
- ET Canada
Earlier, it was reported that Guy Ritchie will be helming a World War II film in which he also co-wrote. Now, MGM has revealed the trailer to another upcoming war film starring Jake Gyllenhaal titled Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant. The Covenant is more of a contemporary war movie that deals with a US Army outfit in Afghanistan and their conflict with the Taliban. Jake Gyllenhaal is joined by a cast that includes Dar Salim, Antony Starr, Alexander Ludwig, Bobby Schofield, with Emily Beecham and Jonny Lee Miller.
The official synopsis reads,
“Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant follows US Army Sergeant John Kinley (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Afghan interpreter Ahmed (Dar Salim). After an ambush, Ahmed goes to Herculean lengths to save Kinley’s life. When Kinley learns that Ahmed and his family were not given safe passage to America as promised, he must repay his debt by returning to the...
The official synopsis reads,
“Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant follows US Army Sergeant John Kinley (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Afghan interpreter Ahmed (Dar Salim). After an ambush, Ahmed goes to Herculean lengths to save Kinley’s life. When Kinley learns that Ahmed and his family were not given safe passage to America as promised, he must repay his debt by returning to the...
- 2/2/2023
- by EJ Tangonan
- JoBlo.com
By now, it's safe to say you know pretty much what you're getting when you see the name "Guy Ritchie" attached to a trailer. Some gruff, fast-talking, and probably criminal characters are going to be stuck in impossibly tight circumstances that can only be solved by weapons and wit and a fair bit of off-color tastelessness. Oh, and there's a pretty good chance that you'll either love or hate it — nothing in-between. The gangster-loving director behind "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels," "Snatch," "Sherlock Holmes," and most recently "The Gentlemen" and "Wrath of Man" has fully established his own recognizable niche and has mostly been content to stay right there.
So when word first hit that Ritchie would be teaming up with star Jake Gyllenhaal for an action-thriller following a soldier soon after the United States' invasion of Afghanistan in the early 2000s, most expected another controversial shoot-'em-up in the...
So when word first hit that Ritchie would be teaming up with star Jake Gyllenhaal for an action-thriller following a soldier soon after the United States' invasion of Afghanistan in the early 2000s, most expected another controversial shoot-'em-up in the...
- 2/2/2023
- by Jeremy Mathai
- Slash Film
Directed by Guy Ritchie, the action comedy film Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre was filmed in 2021 and boasts a cast that includes Jason Statham, Hugh Grant, Aubrey Plaza, Cary Elwes, Bugzy Malone, and Josh Hartnett. And getting U.S. distribution for this film is proving to be unexpectedly difficult. Tired of waiting for the U.S. side of things to get worked out, international distributors have gone ahead and released Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre to theatres in some countries this week, with the premiere taking place in Dubai last night.
Operation Fortune was originally supposed to receive a theatrical release from STX Entertainment in January of last year. But it was delayed while STX merged with Eros International plc., and was later bought out by Najafi Companies – after Lionsgate considered buying the company, but then dropped out of the running. Lionsgate had also considered releasing Operation Fortune in U.
Operation Fortune was originally supposed to receive a theatrical release from STX Entertainment in January of last year. But it was delayed while STX merged with Eros International plc., and was later bought out by Najafi Companies – after Lionsgate considered buying the company, but then dropped out of the running. Lionsgate had also considered releasing Operation Fortune in U.
- 1/6/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Chanel Cresswell has joined the cast of Guy Ritchie’s series followup to “The Gentlemen” at Netflix, Variety has learned exclusively.
Cresswell will appear in a recurring role as Tammy, though further character details are being kept under wraps. Production is currently underway on the series in the U.K.
The series takes place in the same world as the film, but will feature an entirely new cast of characters. Theo James will star as Eddie, described as “the estranged son of an English aristocrat who inherits the family pile – only to discover that it’s sitting on top of the biggest weed farm in Europe.” Other cast members include Kaya Scodelario, Daniel Ings, Joely Richardson, Giancarlo Esposito, Peter Serafinowicz, and Vinnie Jones.
Cresswell is next set to be seen in the highly-anticipated limited series “Vardy v. Rooney: A Courtroom Drama” opposite Michael Sheen. The series is based on the...
Cresswell will appear in a recurring role as Tammy, though further character details are being kept under wraps. Production is currently underway on the series in the U.K.
The series takes place in the same world as the film, but will feature an entirely new cast of characters. Theo James will star as Eddie, described as “the estranged son of an English aristocrat who inherits the family pile – only to discover that it’s sitting on top of the biggest weed farm in Europe.” Other cast members include Kaya Scodelario, Daniel Ings, Joely Richardson, Giancarlo Esposito, Peter Serafinowicz, and Vinnie Jones.
Cresswell is next set to be seen in the highly-anticipated limited series “Vardy v. Rooney: A Courtroom Drama” opposite Michael Sheen. The series is based on the...
- 12/7/2022
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Speaking from the Red Sea International Film Festival in Jeddah, Guy Ritchie revealed Friday that his thriller “The Interpreter” is now titled “The Covenant.”
“Names, as it transpires, is about the most challenging aspect of filmmaking,” Ritchie told Variety. “The last few films I’ve done, the trickiest decision to make has been the name of the movie. As of today, it’s called ‘The Covenant.'”
The thriller sees Gyllenhaal’s army sergeant in Afghanistan rescued by his Afghan interpreter, played by Fahim Fazli, and having to traverse hostile territory towards safety. Written by Ritchie and his regular collaborators Ivan Atkinson and Marn Davies, the film was completed “literally in the last few days,” said Ritchie.
It is only one of a packed lineup of projects for the “Sherlock Holmes” director. Next to shoot in February is “The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.” “Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre” is also...
“Names, as it transpires, is about the most challenging aspect of filmmaking,” Ritchie told Variety. “The last few films I’ve done, the trickiest decision to make has been the name of the movie. As of today, it’s called ‘The Covenant.'”
The thriller sees Gyllenhaal’s army sergeant in Afghanistan rescued by his Afghan interpreter, played by Fahim Fazli, and having to traverse hostile territory towards safety. Written by Ritchie and his regular collaborators Ivan Atkinson and Marn Davies, the film was completed “literally in the last few days,” said Ritchie.
It is only one of a packed lineup of projects for the “Sherlock Holmes” director. Next to shoot in February is “The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.” “Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre” is also...
- 12/2/2022
- by John Bleasdale
- Variety Film + TV
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Rising Brit star Alexis Rodney, seen in Guardians of the Galaxy, Outlander and the upcoming Dungeons and Dragons film (alongside Regé-Jean Page and Chris Pine), has joined The Gentlemen, Guy Ritchie’s Netflix series inspired by his own 2019 Miramax action comedy, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
Rodney — who recently shot dark comedy Young Gun — joins an ensemble cast led by Theo James (The White Lotus), and also including Giancarlo Esposito (Better Call Saul), Kaya Scodelario (Crawl), Daniel Ings (I Hate Suzie), Joely Richardson (Lady Chatterley’s Lover), Peter Serafinowicz (The Tick) and Vinnie Jones (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels).
In a story closely linked to the 2019 film The Gentlemen and set in the same world, the eight-part series will follow James’ character, Eddie Horniman, who inherits his father’s sizable estate only to discover that it’s sitting on top of the biggest weed farm in Europe.
Rising Brit star Alexis Rodney, seen in Guardians of the Galaxy, Outlander and the upcoming Dungeons and Dragons film (alongside Regé-Jean Page and Chris Pine), has joined The Gentlemen, Guy Ritchie’s Netflix series inspired by his own 2019 Miramax action comedy, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
Rodney — who recently shot dark comedy Young Gun — joins an ensemble cast led by Theo James (The White Lotus), and also including Giancarlo Esposito (Better Call Saul), Kaya Scodelario (Crawl), Daniel Ings (I Hate Suzie), Joely Richardson (Lady Chatterley’s Lover), Peter Serafinowicz (The Tick) and Vinnie Jones (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels).
In a story closely linked to the 2019 film The Gentlemen and set in the same world, the eight-part series will follow James’ character, Eddie Horniman, who inherits his father’s sizable estate only to discover that it’s sitting on top of the biggest weed farm in Europe.
- 11/11/2022
- by Alex Ritman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Guy Ritchie is keeping pretty busy these days. In addition to his role directing the live-action and somehow TikTok-inspired adaptation of Disney's "Hercules," he's also set to start production on the series spin-off of his film "The Gentlemen" for Netflix. In the 2019 film, Matthew McConaughey starred as Mickey Pearson, an American living in England who oversees a massive marijuana empire hidden in the estates of members of the British aristocracy in need of some fast cash. We called "The Gentlemen" a "stylish but empty Guy Ritchie gangster romp" in our own review of the film, but the box office success of the action-comedy crime film was enough to constitute a follow-up series. The film is set in the same world as "The Gentlemen," but as reported by Variety, promises to be a story all its own. Here's everything we know about the series so far.
When And Where To Watch...
When And Where To Watch...
- 11/4/2022
- by BJ Colangelo
- Slash Film
The cast of The Gentlemen series is growing like a weed. See what I did there? After casting actor Theo James as the show’s star, Guy Ritchie’s Netflix series adaptation welcomes more stars to the cast. Joining James for the anticipated crime comedy are Vinnie Jones, Kaya Scodalerio, Giancarlo Esposito, Daniel Ings, Joely Richardson, and Peter Serafinowicz.
According to reports, Jones will star as Geoff Seacombe, the estate’s groundskeeper; Scodalerio will play Susie Glass, a compliment to Eddie Halstead (Theo James), who oversees Mickey Pearson’s drug business. Meanwhile, Ings will play Freddy Halstead, Eddie’s older sibling who owes dangerous people a lot of money; Richardson will play Lady Sabrina, Eddie and Freddy’s mother. Lastly, James plays the project’s lead character, Eddie Halstead, who inherits his father’s substantial estate and discovers he’s in charge of a marijuana empire owned by the notorious Mickey Pearson.
According to reports, Jones will star as Geoff Seacombe, the estate’s groundskeeper; Scodalerio will play Susie Glass, a compliment to Eddie Halstead (Theo James), who oversees Mickey Pearson’s drug business. Meanwhile, Ings will play Freddy Halstead, Eddie’s older sibling who owes dangerous people a lot of money; Richardson will play Lady Sabrina, Eddie and Freddy’s mother. Lastly, James plays the project’s lead character, Eddie Halstead, who inherits his father’s substantial estate and discovers he’s in charge of a marijuana empire owned by the notorious Mickey Pearson.
- 11/4/2022
- by Steve Seigh
- JoBlo.com
Guy Ritchie’s series followup to “The Gentlemen” at Netflix has set its main cast.
Joining previously announced series lead Theo James in the series will be: Kaya Scodelario, Daniel Ings (“I Hate Suzie”), Joely Richardson (“Lady Chatterley’s Lover”), Giancarlo Esposito, Peter Serafinowicz (“The Tick”), and Vinnie Jones. The role will see Jones and Ritchie reunite for the first time since “Snatch,” which debuted in 2000.
Per Netflix, the series is set in the same world as “The Gentlemen” film, but will feature an entirely new cast of characters. Production begins in the U.K. on Nov. 7. James stars as Eddie, described as “the estranged son of an English aristocrat who inherits the family pile – only to discover that it’s sitting on top of the biggest weed farm in Europe.”
“The world of ‘The Gentlemen’ is a little bit of me,” Ritchie said. “I’m thrilled that with Netflix, Miramax...
Joining previously announced series lead Theo James in the series will be: Kaya Scodelario, Daniel Ings (“I Hate Suzie”), Joely Richardson (“Lady Chatterley’s Lover”), Giancarlo Esposito, Peter Serafinowicz (“The Tick”), and Vinnie Jones. The role will see Jones and Ritchie reunite for the first time since “Snatch,” which debuted in 2000.
Per Netflix, the series is set in the same world as “The Gentlemen” film, but will feature an entirely new cast of characters. Production begins in the U.K. on Nov. 7. James stars as Eddie, described as “the estranged son of an English aristocrat who inherits the family pile – only to discover that it’s sitting on top of the biggest weed farm in Europe.”
“The world of ‘The Gentlemen’ is a little bit of me,” Ritchie said. “I’m thrilled that with Netflix, Miramax...
- 11/4/2022
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Guy Ritchie is set to reunite with longtime collaborator Vinnie Jones in Netflix’s The Gentlemen, a TV series inspired by Ritchie’s 2019 Miramax film. Jones joins the cast alongside Kaya Scodalerio (Crawl), Giancarlo Esposito (Better Call Saul), Daniel Ings (I Hate Suzie), Joely Richardson (Lady Chatterley’s Lover) and Peter Serafinowicz (The Tick).
Related: 2022 Netflix Pilot & Series Orders
Jones will play Geoff Seacombe, the groundskeeper of the estate; Scodalerio will play Susie Glass, the yin to Eddie Halstead’s (Theo James) yang who oversees Mickey Pearson’s drug business; Ings will play Freddy Halstead, Eddie’s older sibling who owes dangerous people a debt; Richardson will play Lady Sabrina, Eddie and Freddy’s mother.
The eight-part drama series follows Eddie Halstead (previously announced star James), who has inherited his father’s sizeable estate only to discover that it’s sitting on top of...
Related: 2022 Netflix Pilot & Series Orders
Jones will play Geoff Seacombe, the groundskeeper of the estate; Scodalerio will play Susie Glass, the yin to Eddie Halstead’s (Theo James) yang who oversees Mickey Pearson’s drug business; Ings will play Freddy Halstead, Eddie’s older sibling who owes dangerous people a debt; Richardson will play Lady Sabrina, Eddie and Freddy’s mother.
The eight-part drama series follows Eddie Halstead (previously announced star James), who has inherited his father’s sizeable estate only to discover that it’s sitting on top of...
- 11/4/2022
- by Rosy Cordero
- Deadline Film + TV
Netflix is officially entering the Guy Ritchie business.
Over two years after the "Snatch," "Sherlock Holmes," and "Aladdin" filmmaker first released his long-overdue foray back to caper flicks with "The Gentlemen", the divisive director is taking the gangster dramedy and turning it into a streaming series for the biggest platform of them all. The news comes courtesy of Variety, which confirms previous reports that Netflix had been "in talks" to pick up the series. Today, it's been revealed that the streaming giant has now given this spin-off the green light and ordered it to series.
While fans of the irreverent crime film have waited with bated breath to see if any of the film's original stars would return -- a star-studded cast that includes Matthew McConaughey, Charlie Hunnam, Jeremy Strong, Michelle Dockery, Colin Farrell, Henry Golding, and Eddie Marsan -- we now know that the new lead for this series...
Over two years after the "Snatch," "Sherlock Holmes," and "Aladdin" filmmaker first released his long-overdue foray back to caper flicks with "The Gentlemen", the divisive director is taking the gangster dramedy and turning it into a streaming series for the biggest platform of them all. The news comes courtesy of Variety, which confirms previous reports that Netflix had been "in talks" to pick up the series. Today, it's been revealed that the streaming giant has now given this spin-off the green light and ordered it to series.
While fans of the irreverent crime film have waited with bated breath to see if any of the film's original stars would return -- a star-studded cast that includes Matthew McConaughey, Charlie Hunnam, Jeremy Strong, Michelle Dockery, Colin Farrell, Henry Golding, and Eddie Marsan -- we now know that the new lead for this series...
- 11/3/2022
- by Jeremy Mathai
- Slash Film
Grab yourself some Vibes rolling papers and a pound of Wildlife Cannabis Company‘s Blackberry Gelato because Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen TV series is rolling a fat one for Theo James. James plays the project’s lead character, Eddie Halstead, who inherits his father’s substantial estate and discovers he’s in charge of a marijuana empire owned by the notorious Mickey Pearson. Will Eddie succeed at taking over the family business? Does he have what it takes to go up against the British criminal underworld?
Did you know that The Gentlemen was supposed to be a television series before it became a feature film? It’s true, and now the property is returning to its roots. Released in 2019, The Gentlemen tells the story of an American ex-pat who tries to sell off his highly profitable marijuana empire in London, triggering plots, schemes, bribery, and blackmail to steal his domain out from under him.
Did you know that The Gentlemen was supposed to be a television series before it became a feature film? It’s true, and now the property is returning to its roots. Released in 2019, The Gentlemen tells the story of an American ex-pat who tries to sell off his highly profitable marijuana empire in London, triggering plots, schemes, bribery, and blackmail to steal his domain out from under him.
- 11/3/2022
- by Steve Seigh
- JoBlo.com
The series followup to the Guy Ritchie film “The Gentlemen” has been ordered to series at Netflix, with Theo James joining in a lead role.
In the film, Matthew McConaughey played Mickey Pearson, an American living in England who oversees a vast marijuana business hidden on the estates of cash-strapped members of the British aristocracy.
Variety has learned from sources that James will star in the one-hour drama series as Eddie, who inherits his father’s estate only to discover it is part of Pearson’s empire.
Ritchie directed, wrote the screenplay for, and produced the film and will serve as writer, director, and executive producer on the series. Matthew Read will executive produce via Moonage Pictures and co-wrote the pilot with Ritchie. Bill Block, Ivan Atkinson, and Marn Davies — all of whom produced the film with Atkinson and Davies writing the story with Ritchie — will serve as executive producers on the show.
In the film, Matthew McConaughey played Mickey Pearson, an American living in England who oversees a vast marijuana business hidden on the estates of cash-strapped members of the British aristocracy.
Variety has learned from sources that James will star in the one-hour drama series as Eddie, who inherits his father’s estate only to discover it is part of Pearson’s empire.
Ritchie directed, wrote the screenplay for, and produced the film and will serve as writer, director, and executive producer on the series. Matthew Read will executive produce via Moonage Pictures and co-wrote the pilot with Ritchie. Bill Block, Ivan Atkinson, and Marn Davies — all of whom produced the film with Atkinson and Davies writing the story with Ritchie — will serve as executive producers on the show.
- 11/3/2022
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
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