Theo James Goes Gangster in 'The Gentlemen'
You probably have never heard of Guy Richie's The Gentlemen, a film technically considered a 2019 release because it debuted in December at a film festival and got high marks. Starring Matthew McConaughey, Charlie Hunnam, Henry Golding, Michelle Dockery, Jeremy Strong, Eddie Marsan, Colin Farrell, and Hugh Grant, it's a fun "the aristocracy secretly grows weed to support itself" high-society concept in the Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels British gangster genre film, However, its March 2020 release date in the U.S... Well, that didn't happen.
Sadly, it's only a streaming rental because otherwise, I would recommend it. Instead, we will have to make do with Richie's spinoff project of the same name, greenlit in October 2020. Theo James, who is a long way from Sanditon, stars as the newly anointed Duke of Halstead; Eddie Horniman, who, as the eldest son, has inherited his father's sprawling grand estate upon his father's passing and all of his money problems... or so he thinks. Turns out his money problems aren't what he imagined, as the property is solvent, thanks to having joined the secret cannabis-growing empire.
The eight-hour series tracks Eddie's transformation from a would-be rich boy gangster into an actual drug lord kingpin, as Horniman discovers that he's actually quite good at this game....
