“Do you know what ‘nemesis’ means?”
Despite what the critical consensus might say in 2018,
Lock, Stock and
Snatch are still classics. Yes, they are over the top, and completely unrealistic, and completely derivative of Martin Scorsese. But they are just so much fun, and so quotable, and full of great performances.
After
Snatch, Guy Ritchie sort of went off the rails. He made the disastrous
swept Away with his then-wife Madonna, and followed that with the completely incomprehensible
Revolver. He returned to London to make
RocknRolla, which was ok, but he’s reinvented himself making Hollywood action flicks like
Sherlock Holmes and
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (and
King Arthur, which is genuinely fun – no, really!).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni4tEtuTccc
His next film is the live-action
Aladdin – and god knows how that will turn out. But after that, he’s heading back to the UK. It’s been announce that his next project with be a British set crime movie.
Ritchie is producing and co-writing the film which has the slightly iffy title of ‘
Toff Guys’. According to
Deadline, it is going to be a cross between
Sexy Beast and
Downton Abbey, and is about “a very English drug lord attempting to cash out on his highly profitable empire by selling it off to a dynasty of Oklahoma billionaires”. That's definitely got potential for some cheeky crime japes. Deadline also reports that an insider described it as being “about old money, new money, and show me the money.” Whatever that means.
There is no other details yet, and no hint of who is going to be in it, or when it is going to be out. Still, we definitely hope for a few familiar faces. Jason Statham, for instance, has probably never been better than he was in
Snatch. He also worked with Tom Hardy and Idris Elba on
RocknRolla before they were megastars, so they’ll be in his phone contacts. And an appearance from Alan Ford – aka Bricktop – would always be appreciated.
