The Gentlemen are heading to the small screen! It has been announced that Miramax TV is developing, The Gentlemen, a TV series based on the studio’s successful action-comedy feature that was written and directed by Guy Ritchie and starred Matthew McConaughey.
Ritchie will be heavily involved in the series as he’s both writing and directing. He will executive produce alongside Ivan Atkinson and Marn Davies, his fellow producers on the movie. The fact that The Gentlemen is headed to TV is a bit a full-circle moment because the original project started off as a TV series pitch before it became a feature. This adaptation is also continuing Miramax’s ramped-up efforts to dig into its IP and adapt it for the small screen. The Gentlemen joins the recently announced series adaptation of another Miramax movie with an A-list filmmaker attached, Mimic, directed and exec produced by Paul WS Anderson.
The film followed American ex-pat Mickey Pearson (McConaughey), who built a highly profitable marijuana empire in London. When word gets out that he’s looking to cash out of the business forever, it triggers plots, schemes, bribery, and blackmail in an attempt to steal his domain out from under him. The film also stars Colin Farrell, Charlie Hunnam, Henry Golding, and Hugh Grant. The Gentlemen was released pre-pandemic back in January and actually performed quite well, grossing $115 million at the worldwide box office.
