Tom Hardy, Helen Mirren and Pierce Brosnan close to starring in Guy Ritchie’s “The Associate” series

Tom Hardy, Helen Mirren and Pierce Brosnan close to starring in Guy Ritchie’s “The Associate” series

October 10, 2024 – 10:06

The Associate represents Ritchie’s latest television project after creating the Netflix series The Gentlemen, starring Theo James.

Tom Hardy, Helen Mirren and Pierce Brosnan They are in final talks to star in the series Paramount+ of Guy Ritchie and Ronan Bennett, The Associate.

The hour-long gangster drama series is a production of Showtime, MTV Studios and 101 Studios. As Variety reported in February, Bennett is writing the entire series and Ritchie will direct it. Both are also executive producers, along with David C. Glasser, Ron Burkle, Bob Yari, David Hutkin and Ivan Atkinson.

What will Guy Ritchie’s The Associate be like?

The project had initially been developed under the title “The Donovans,” with plans to function as a spin-off of the Showtime series. Ray Donovanwhich was starred by Liev Schreiber for seven seasons and a film adaptation. However, it has been reworked as a standalone series with no connections to that franchise.

Bennett is the creator of the British police series Top Boy and has written novels like The Catastrophist, Overthrown by Strangers and Havoc, in Its Third Yearas well as the script for the film Michael Mann Public Enemies. He also produced and wrote the upcoming adaptation of the Sky and Peacock series The Day of the Jackalstarring Eddie Redmayne and Lashana Lynch.

The Associate represents Ritchie’s latest television project after creating the series Netflix The Gentlemenstarring Theo James. An adaptation of his 2019 crime feature film of the same name, the series has been renewed for a second season after debuting on the streaming service this spring. He has also directed feature films such as The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare and Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant of this year, Snatch, The Man From U.N.C.L.E. and the live action Disney movie Aladdin.

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