Well after countless heartache and romance, it looks like the rom-com legend Hugh Grant has turned to drugs in “The Gentlemen.” Directed by legendary Brit Guy Ritchie (“Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels”), “The Gentlemen” sees a British drug lord try and sell his business to Oklahoma billionaires.
Ritchie is fresh from doing Disney’s “Aladdin,” which received mixed reviews (on Rotten Tomatoes it has a 57% score but a 94% audience score), and is now returning to his roots with a gritty crime comedy.
The last film he made in this vein would be 2015’s “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.” but he also directed Robert Downey Jr.’s version of “Sherlock Holmes” which put crime, humor, and action all rolled into one. Ritchie has been able to mix those genres very well together and this new project could be very similar. But “The Gentleman” looks like old school Guy Ritchie in the vein of “Snatch” and “RocknRolla,” which means lots of tough guys (the movie was originally called “Toff Guys”), f-bombs and wicked comedy.
“The Gentleman” star Matthew McConaughey in a movie that mixes weed and crime together and it also features Hugh Grant (“Four Weddings and a Funeral“), Colin Farrell (“Horrible Bosses”), Charlie Hunnam (“Pacific Rim”), Michelle Dockery (“Downton Abbey”), Jeremy Strong (“The Judge”) and Henry Golding (“Crazy Rich Asians”). The film is also being distributed by STX.
Here is the synopsis:
From writer/director Guy Ritchie comes THE GENTLEMEN, a star-studded sophisticated action-comedy. THE GENTLEMEN follows American expat Mickey Pearson (Matthew 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 (featuring an all-star ensemble cast including Charlie Hunnam, Henry Golding, Michelle Dockery, Jeremy Strong, Eddie Marsan, Colin Farrell, and Hugh Grant).
The “Gentleman” lands in theaters on January 24, 2020. Watch the brand new trailer below.
