Hugh Grant is ready to join Guy Ritchie’s gang. The actor has joined the cast of Toff Guys, which returns director Guy Ritchie the gangster roots that made him famous with such films as Lock, Stock, And Two Smoking Barrels & Snatch.
Written by Ritchie with Marn Davies and Ivan Atkinson, Toff Guys explores the collision between old-money European wealth and the modern marijuana industrial complex with new gang entrants swarming.
Grant joins Matthew McConaughey, Kate Beckinsale, & Henry Golding who have already been announced for the project. Grant will play Fletcher, a British gossip journalist with a reputation of going into people’s lives, and undoing them.
Miramax closed a $30 million-plus world rights deal and committed to finance the film in May ahead of the Cannes market. The new studio under beIN Media Group Chairman Nasser Al-Khelaifi and CEO Bill Block is on a roll this month with Halloween which they co-financed with Blumhouse and produced. The slasher sequel, made for around $15 million, will ultimately close in on $200 million at the global box office and instantaneously became the highest grossing film in the 40-year old John Carpenter horror franchise.
