‘The Gentlemen’: Vinnie Jones, Kaya Scodelario and Giancarlo Esposito join the Guy Ritchie series

The new Netflix series will follow the story of ‘The Gentlemen: The Lords of the Mafia’, the 2019 film directed by Guy Ritchie. Consisting of 8 chapters, the title will once again be directed by Ritchie, but will have an entirely new cast of actors. Filming, which has just begun in the UK, stars Theo James (“The White Lotus”) as Eddie Halstead, a young heir to the world’s largest marijuana empire. As Deadline reports, The series has now added Vinnie Jones (“Lock & Stock”), Kaya Scodelario (“Crawl”) and Giancarlo Esposito (“Better Call Saul”) to the cast.Daniel Ings (“I Hate Suzie”), Joely Richardson (“Lady Chatterley, The Awakening of Passion”) and Peter Serafinowicz (“The Tick”).

Jones will be joining Ritchie again for the first time since ‘Snatch. Pigs and diamonds’, his hit released in 2000. The 57-year-old British actor will play the farm gardener; Scodelario will do the same as Susie Glass, who oversees the drug business of Mickey Pearson, the character played by Matthew McConaughey in the original film; Ings will play Eddie’s older brother who owes a debt to dangerous people; and Richardson will play their mother.

Ritchie leads the production and creation of the series, and is co-writer and executive producer.. Also, he will direct the first two chapters. Matthew Read, producer of “Peaky Blinders”, will be the other person in charge of writing “The Gentlemen”.

the original movie

The 2019 title is available for viewing through the Prime Video platform. This crime thriller follows the life of Pearson, a British-style drug lord who tries to sell his empire to a dynasty of Oklahoma billionaires. The film had a brilliant cast consisting of McConaughey, Charlie Hunnam (“Sons of Anarchy”), Michelle Dockery (“Downton Abbey”), Colin Farrell (“The Batman”), Jeremy Strong (“Successionn”), Henry Golding ( ‘Crazy Rich Asians’) and Hugh Grant (‘Love Actually’).