The prolific Guy Ritchie has been on a filmmaking tear over the past half-decade. Since 2019, the British director has shot eight films (two of them, “In The Grey“ and “Fountain Of Youth“ are in post-production now) and also worked on two TV series: Netflix’s “The Gentlemen“ and the upcoming “Young Sherlock.” So is Ritchie going to keep churning out projects? Undoubtedly. But what’s the next thing on the horizon for him?
Deadline reports that Ritchie’s next TV show will be “Guy Ritchie’s The Associate” (a working title) over at Paramount+. And three major UK actors are in final talks to star in the series. Tom Hardy, Helen Mirren, and Pierce Brosnan are all closing negotiations to stars in the streaming series, about a family of elite fixers based in London and their wide span of European clients: gangsters, magnates, and other shady types whose reputation may be at stake if anyone discovered the true nature of their business.
So who will Hardy, Mirren, and Brosnan play in the series? Hardy stars as Harry, the main character, with Mirren and Brosnan as the matriarch and patriarch of the fixer family. “The Associate” will be Hardy’s first time working with Ritchie since 2008’s “RocknRolla,” but, surprisingly, the first time Ritchie works with either Mirren or Brosnan. Mirren and Brosnan have worked on a TV project more recently than Hardy, though. Mirren recently starred in another Paramount+ series, Taylor Sheridan‘s “1923,” while Brosnan just wrapped shooting Netflix’s “The Thursday Murder Club,” on the way in 2025. Hardy’s last TV role? His criminally underseen BBC One/FX series “Taboo.”
Richie will direct the series, and also executive produces “The Associate” with series writer Ronan Bennett, David C. Glasser, Ron Burkle, Bob Yari, David Hutkin, and Ivan Atkinson. Also of note: “The Associate” was first developed as a “Roy Donovan” spinoff series, but Ritchie’s show no longer has any connection to the hit Showtime series. So if one wants to guess what kind of series “The Associate” will be, imagine Liev Schreiber‘s show mixed with “The Gentlemen” and that’s on point.
If Ritchie shoots “The Associate” fast, like he likes to, then three projects of his may reach audiences next year. Lionsgate already has “In The Grey,” an action-adventure flick with Jake Gyllenhaal, Henry Cavill, and Eiza González, set for a January 17, 2025 theatrical release, but stay tuned if Apple has “Fountain Of Youth” next year. As for “The Associate”? A Fall 2025 premiere on Paramount+ feels likely.
