Guy Ritchie Enlists Tom Hardy, Pierce Brosnan, & Helen Mirren For New Crime Series

• Guy Ritchie is circling Tom Hardy, Pierce Brosnan, and Helen Mirren for Paramount+ crime drama The Associate.
• The series was originally penned by Top Boy creator Ronan Bennett as a spin-off to Ray Donovan; Bennett has signed on to write and produce.
• Release date: TBA.

Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan and Steven Knight of Peaky Blinders fame aren’t the only showrunner-cum-directors intent on loading up their plates. The one and only Guy Ritchie, it seems, is also of the mind that idle hands are the devil’s playthings.

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In addition to a second season of Netflix’s The Gentlemen series, Amazon Prime Video’s Young Sherlock, as well as two feature-length projects on the burner — In The Grey, which reunites him with Henry Cavill, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Eiza Gonzalez; Fountain of Youth starring John Krasinski, Natalie Portman, and also Gonzalez — the talented Mr Ritchie is assembling another crime drama series.

This time for Paramount+ and, should final negotiations prove successful, featuring a heavyweight trio in the form of Tom Hardy, Pierce Brosnan, as well as Helen Mirren.

According to Deadline, with the most powerful clients in Europe, the forthcoming affair will see “family fortunes and reputations at risk, odd alliances unfold, and betrayal around every corner; and while the family might be London’s most elite fixers today, the nature of their business means there is no guarantee what’s in store tomorrow.”

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Hardy reunites with Ritchie for the first time since RocknRolla, taking on the role of Harry — said fixer and a man who is “as dangerous as he is handsome.”

Brosnan and Mirren, on the other hand, are set to portray the crime family’s patriarch and matriarch, respectively; the latter coming off the bench almost immediately after the second and final season of universally acclaimed Yellowstone prequel 1923.

The Associate was originally written by Ronan Bennett (Top Boy) as a spin-off to Liev Schreiber’s Ray Donovan, but has since been reworked as a standalone property. Ritchie is also signed on to direct and executive produce alongside Bennett, David C. Glasser, Ron Burkle, Bob Yari, David Hutkin, and Ivan Atkinson.

More to come as this story develops…