The Gentlemen is an action comedy television series created by Guy Ritchie for Netflix. It is a spin-off of Ritchie's 2019 film of the same name. The series stars Theo James in the lead role and was released on March 7, 2024.
| Genre | Action comedy |
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| Created by | Guy Ritchie |
| Inspired by | The Gentlemen by Guy Ritchie |
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| Music by | Christopher Benstead |
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| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 8 |
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| Producer | Hugh Warren |
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| Network | Netflix |
| Release | March 7, 2024 |
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| The Gentlemen (film) | |
PREMISE
Upon reading his father's final will and testament, Edward Horniman has been unexpectedly bestowed with an estate of 15,000 acres (6000 hectares) and the title of Duke of Halstead. He finds out that Susie Glass has turned the land into a massive weed-growing enterprise. In addition to attempting to keep himself alive and defend his house, he must negotiate a world full of strange, dangerous people with sinister intentions.
CAST
Mainedit
- Theo James as Edward "Eddie" Horniman, The 13th Duke of Halstead and a former United Nations peacekeeping officer.
- Kaya Scodelario as Susan "Susie" Glass, the de facto head of Bobby Glass' criminal syndicate while he is in prison.
- Daniel Ings as Lord Frederick "Freddy" Horniman, Eddie's unreliable cocaine-addicted older brother.
- Joely Richardson as Sabrina Horniman, The Duchess of Halstead, Eddie, Freddy and Charly's mother who wants to keep her family away from criminal activity.
- Joshua McGuire[a] as Peter Spencer-Forbes / Sticky Pete, a criminal con-man who targets Freddy.
- Vinnie Jones as Geoffrey Seacombe, the long-time groundskeeper of the Halstead Manor.
- Edward Fox[a] as Archibald Horniman, The 12th Duke of Halstead, the ageing father of the Horniman brothers.
- Giancarlo Esposito as Stanley Johnston, a wine-loving American billionaire who seeks to buy the Halstead Manor.
- Ray Winstone as Robert "Bobby" Glass, Susie's father and the incarcerated head of a cannabis empire that uses the Halstead Manor grounds as part of its operation.[1]
- Freddie Fox[a] as Max Bassington, the 9th Lord Bassington Smythe and an aspiring actor with a dark secret.
- Kristofer Hivju[a] as Florian de Groot, the Belgian distributor of cannabis from England to mainland Europe through Zeebrugge.
- Laurence O'Fuarain[a] as JP Ward, the head of a traveller family who becomes Susie's cannabis distributor.
Recurring
- Stephane Fichet as Mr. Lawrence, the Halstead family butler.
- Jasmine Blackborow as Lady Charlotte "Charly" Horniman, Eddie and Freddy's younger sister who lives away at university.
- Chanel Cresswell as Tamasina "Tammy" Lady Horniman, Freddy's wife.
- Pearce Quigley as John "The Gospel" Dixon, the head of the Scouse crime family.
- John McGrellis as Errol, the second-in-command of the Scouse crime family.
- Michael Vu as James "Jimmy" Chang, Susie's chief weed grower.
- Harry Goodwins as Jack Glass, Susie's brother and a professional boxer.[2]
- Alexis Rodney as Emory Stevens, Stanley's loyal servant.
- Mason Antonio Fardowe as Keith, one of Susie's bodyguards.
- Logan Dean as Blanket, another of Susie's bodyguards.
- Gaia Weiss as Princess Rosanne, Eddie's childhood friend and the Countess of Tournai who is 11th in line to the Belgian throne.
- Ruby Sear as Gabrielle, a mysterious woman who encounters and befriends Jimmy.[2]
- Max Beesley as Henry Collins, an ex-army officer who is now a successful London boxing promoter.
Guestedit
- Ranjit Krishnamma as Ahmed Iqbal, the Halstead family solicitor.
- Peter Serafinowicz as Tommy Dixon, John's brother and a high-ranking member of the Scouse crime family.
- Josh Finan as Jethro, the accountant for the Scouse crime family who has obsessive–compulsive disorder.
- Dar Salim as Felix, a "cleaner" working for Susie.
- Cameron Cook as Tonibler / Toni Blair, the head of a Kosovan-Albanian gang.
- Martha Millan as Mercy Moreno, a Filipino dealer in high-end sportscars that is used as a front to ship Colombian cocaine.
- John Thomson as Frank, a disgraced journalist who blackmails the Bassingtons.
- Leah McNamara as Kellie Ann Ward, JP's daughter who attempts to steal generators from Susie's cannabis farm.
- Guz Khan as Chucky Kubra, an experienced money launderer working for Susie.
- Gary Beadle as Thick Rick, a former accountant who works with Henry to "wash" money through betting on boxing matches.
- Nigel Havers as the Lord Whitecroft, who previously worked with the Glass family.
Episodesedit
| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date [3] |
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| 1 | "(Episode One)" "Refined Aggression" | Guy Ritchie | Guy Ritchie & Matthew Read | March 7, 2024 |
An Army officer named Eddie Horniman leaves for home in England as his father, the Duke of Halstead, lies dying. Following the death of the Duke, Eddie unexpectedly succeeds to the Dukedom and family estate in accordance with his father's wishes, eschewing his reckless older brother Freddy. Soon after taking on his new position, Eddie finds out that Tommy Dixon, a vicious drug dealer from Scouse, is the one who Freddy owes £8 million. Eddie chooses to raise the money and preserve Freddy's by selling the estate to investor Stanley Johnston.He comes to an end, though, when he meets Susie Glass, who informs him that a sizable cannabis farm lies beneath the estate and was founded thanks to a business deal between their fathers. Susie consents to renegotiate terms with Tommy, and together they manage to cut the debt in half in exchange for quick cash payment and Freddy's involvement in an embarrassing video. Eddie raises the necessary £4 million by selling Johnston the estate wine collection and, with Susie's assistance, winning back a significant wager that Freddy made with Sticky Pete, a dishonest bookmaker. Tommy shows up at the estate to take video footage and collect the money. But when Tommy continues to agitate an emotional and cocaine-fueled Freddy, Freddy returns with a shotgun and kills Tommy.
| 2 | "(Episode Two)" "Tackle Tommy Woo Woo" | Guy Ritchie | Guy Ritchie & Matthew Read | March 7, 2024 |
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Tommy's associate Jethro makes an attempt to run away but is apprehended shortly after Tommy is killed. Susie employs Felix, a subterranean crime scene "cleaner," to kill Jethro and get rid of Tommy. Eddie, on the other hand, feels sorry for him and devises a different scheme to accuse Jethro of Tommy's murder and assist him in leaving the nation. The head of the Scouse cocaine syndicate and Tommy's evangelical brother, John "the Gospel" Dixon, shows up at the estate the following day with his goons in search of the missing man. Eddie persuades them that Tommy and Jethro got into a fight, and that Jethro might be to blame for Tommy going missing. Later, Eddie fights with one of Dixon's goons who was inside waiting for Jethro while he is removing Jethro's passport from his flat.Eddie shoots himself while killing him in the end. Eddie, who is still recovering from his wound, is made to go to Johnston's gala, where Susie reveals he is a crystal meth kingpin. Johnston offers her a partnership, but she knows he wants to grow his drug operations. Then, because of his wealth and power, Eddie requests a meeting with Bobby Glass, Susie's father, who is incarcerated in an opulent, open-air prison. Eddie offers Bobby something in exchange for him ending the cannabis business and earning even more money for Bobby. He accepts to think about the proposal. At last, Eddie assists Jethro in leaving the country; however, he is unaware that Susie has Felix kill Jethro in order to close the case.
| 3 | "(Episode Three)" "Where's My Weed At?" | Nima Nourizadeh | Haleema Mirza & Matthew Read | March 7, 2024 |
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Jimmy, the head cultivator at the cannabis farm, is duped by an enigmatic figure named Gabrielle, resulting in him losing a shipment. Susie consents to do a favour for the irritated client, "Tony Blair," who is the head of a Kosovan-Albanian gang, while the shipment is delayed. Eddie is given the responsibility of stealing a Lamborghini Huracan. It belongs to Mercy, the owner of a chop shop, whom Eddie soon comes to believe is hiding a more violent side. Eddie finds and saves a Blair gang member who has been captured when he breaks into the garage at night in order to steal the car. The member discloses that Mercy is a drug dealer with support from Colombia, and that the Lamborghini has a covert cocaine shipment inside of it. Blair got the cocaine by tricking Eddie and Susie into believing he had stolen a car. Mercy's gang kidnaps Freddy and demands a ransom in exchange for the drugs. Eddie sets up a trade, offering Freddy a captured Blair in exchange. After mercilessly murdering Blair, Mercy releases Freddy. Susie is impressed by Eddie's composure in the face of criticism, but Lady Sabrina, Eddie's mother, is concerned about the effects of Eddie's increasing criminality on the family. Susie and her team are unable to locate the pilfered shipment.But Gabrielle gets in touch with Jimmy once more to carry on the scam.
| 4 | "(Episode Four)" "An Unsympathetic Gentleman" | Nima Nourizadeh | Matthew Read & Billy Mason Wood & Theo Mason Wood | March 7, 2024 |
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Eddie approaches Max, the recently appointed Lord Bassington, under Susie's pressure, offering to build a cannabis farm beneath his estate to replace the one at Halstead Manor. Max is accommodating, but he needs Eddie's assistance in addressing a blackmailer. Eddie accepts and runs into the blackmailer, Frank, an ex-journalist who leaves quickly. Following Susie's intervention, they locate Frank and bring him to a meeting with Max. Frank discloses that Max is an ardent supporter of Adolf Hitler and a covert Nazi, even possessing the infamous missing testicle of the dictator.The meeting quickly turns into a gunfight in which Max and Frank sustain injuries. Max is defeated, so Susie uses her enforcers to threaten him into signing a land deal. Separately, Lady Sabrina arranges for groundskeeper Geoff to present her to a different cannabis farm host, a nearby sheep farmer. Susie consents to think about it. Jimmy shows her the farm and important information about the distribution network while she is elsewhere, enamoured with Gabrielle and oblivious to her involvement in stealing the previous shipment.
| 5 | "(Episode Five)" "I've Hundreds of Cousins" | Eran Creevy | Stuart Carolan | March 7, 2024 |
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Bobby assures Susie that he will not allow Eddie to leave even after acquiring two more marijuana farms for the Glass conglomerate. The manager of Glass distributions through Belgium, Florian de Groot, tries to negotiate a larger financial cut, so Susie enlists Eddie's assistance. The Ward family, a renowned group of Travellers, steals two generators from the farm at the same time. Upon visiting JP Ward, Eddie and Susie discover that he is aware of the marijuana operation and is eager to join. Eddie proposes cutting out de Groot and utilising the Wards as distributors. Susie accepts, and the new plan works out well. But when the farm is robbed of £4 million, suspicion is directed towards the Wards. Eddie concludes that de Groot planned the heist in order to put the Wards in the wrong and get back into power. Eddie and Susie approach de Groot, pressuring him to admit that Keith, Susie's bodyguard, assisted him. Eddie gives Keith over to the Wards for execution, but before he passes away, Keith confesses to Jethro's murder, which causes Eddie to lose faith in Susie. In another scene, Lady Sabrina and Geoff discuss their previous relationship and the reality that Geoff is Eddie and Freddy's biological father, Charlotte.Susie tells Eddie that even though he has more money than he needs to leave, it will take an additional three months for the money to be properly laundered and recognised as profit.
| 6 | "(Episode Six)" "All Eventualities" | Eran Creevy | Stuart Carolan | March 7, 2024 |
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Susie's money launderer Chucky Kubra finds her brother Jack having sex with his girlfriend, which complicates matters even more. Eddie meets Jack's promoter, Henry Collins, an ex-army officer, at a boxing party. Henry offers to assist Eddie with money laundering. When Susie mends their relationship, Eddie initially goes back to Chucky, but he is furious to hear that she instructed Chucky to purposefully postpone the laundering process.Eddie tries to give the money to Henry instead, which leads to a fight during which Susie says the Glasses won't allow the Hornimans to leave the empire. Eddie meets with Johnston to seek his assistance in finding a way out. In the meantime, Freddy makes an attempt to convince Susie that he would permit Eddie's murderer to inherit the estate and carry on with the business by referring to it as "cocaine-weed." Susie declines his offer, stating that family comes first. Henry tells Susie he wants to take over the Glass drug empire, either peacefully or by war, during a bout between Jack and an Uzbek boxer. Susie declines and responds by threatening Henry. Jack is hospitalised after being knocked out in the ring per Henry's orders.
| 7 | "(Episode Seven)" "Not Without Danger" | David Caffrey | John Jackson | March 7, 2024 |
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Jack is unconscious in the hospital, and Susie accuses Eddie. She is in charge of the killings of the Uzbek boxer and Collins' lieutenant, but Bobby stops her, telling her he will take care of Collins personally. Eddie finds out that Johnston requests the identities of the 12 additional landowners that own Glass farms. They are acquired by Eddie and Freddy from a former Glass associate named Lord "Tibsy" Whitecroft. Eddie was enraged when Freddy admitted that he had asked Susie to have Eddie killed. Jimmy acknowledges that he informed Gabrielle of Susie's whereabouts, which in turn caused Susie to threaten Gabrielle.She discloses that she works for Johnston and that he is the mastermind behind the attacks on Collins, the betrayal of Keith, the theft of the marijuana shipments, and the shipping delays caused by de Groot in an effort to undermine the Glass empire. After giving Stevens, Johnston's chief of staff, the names, Eddie goes to see Bobby and makes a suggestion about a different course of action. Collins is ambushed by Susie and suffers serious injuries; however, he divulges Eddie's covert meetings with Johnston. She calls John Dixon in retaliation and tells him the real reason Tommy was killed. Eventually, Charlotte surprises the family and Geoff by returning from university pregnant. Geoff informs her about the drug empire out of concern for her safety while at the estate.
| 7 | "(Episode Seven)" "Not Without Danger" | David Caffrey | John Jackson | March 7, 2024 |
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Jack awakens from his coma, and Susie learns from Bobby that Eddie isn't a traitor because he gave Johnston false identities. Susie sends more troops to assist the Hornimans in defending the estate, but Bobby strikes a deal with Dixon to stop a shootout. While Charlotte and Geoff have a heart-to-heart, during which he confesses to being her father, Freddy and Eddie make up. Bobby tells Susie and Eddie that he is going to retire and gives them the responsibility of managing offers from Johnston, Mercy's Colombians, and Sticky Pete's Russians for his empire. When Freddy describes Eddie as "perfectly suited for the empire," Eddie is also motivated to submit a bid. Eddie gathers Collins, Tibsy, and the other twelve lords into a coalition.Susie is reluctant to join in Collins' presence, but Lady Sabrina and Eddie's encouragement persuade her. Following the submission of all bids, Eddie sets up Johnston's arrest for tax evasion and the killings of Sticky Pete and Mercy in order to undermine his competitors. Moreover, despite never really intending to collaborate with Collins, he betrays him and puts Collins to death. Impressed, Bobby confesses that his retirement was a charade to see if Eddie and Susie would make good heirs to the empire in the future. Johnston, another "gentleman," joins Bobby in the opulent outdoor prison now that the new situation has been established.
Production
In October 2020, Moonage Pictures and Miramax Television commissioned Guy Ritchie to write and direct a television series based on his film The Gentlemen. Together with the original film's producers, Ritchie served as executive producer as well.[4] After working with Richie to write the pilot script, Matthew Read joined Moonage as an executive producer alongside Will Gould, and Netflix eventually ordered the series.[5][6] The week prior to the start of filming, the cast—which included Theo James, Kaya Scodelario, Daniel Ings, Joely Richardson, Giancarlo Esposito, Peter Serafinowicz, and Vinnie Jones—was revealed. Alexis Rodney was added during the first week of production.Hugh Warren was revealed as the series producer in June 2023, and Max Beesley was added to the cast.[9] In December of the production, Chanel Cresswell became a regular member of the ensemble.[10] A teaser for the cast released in January 2024 also included Ray Winstone, Jasmine Blackborow, and Michael.[1][11]
London and Badminton House hosted the production, which ran from November 2022 to June 2023.[12][8][13] Filming was done at West London Film Studios and Longcross Studios. There was also on-location filming in Hackney and Islington, as well as at the Princess Victoria pub and the Tate Modern. There are two locations at Stoke Poges in Buckinghamshire: Stoke Court is the prison where Bobby Glass is being held.Two locations are used in Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire: Chucky's mansion is a property on West End Lane, and Stoke Court is the prison where Bobby Glass is seen with his pigeons on the roof. The first episode also featured Printworks London as a backdrop.[14]
Releaseedit
The Gentlemen was released on Netflix on March 7, 2024.[3]
Reception
Based on 63 critic reviews, the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported a 71% approval rating. According to the critics at the website, "Slick as a well-pressed suit and given watchable wattage by its cast, Guy Ritchie's The Gentlemen doesn't seamlessly expand upon the original movie but has enough verve to be fun on its own terms."[15] Based on the opinions of 25 critics, Metacritic assigned it a weighted average score of 67 out of 100, meaning that it received "generally favourable reviews".
The series received three stars out of five from Anita Singh of The Telegraph, who called it "everything you want from a Guy Ritchie caper."[17] Fans of Ritchie's films should watch it, according to Lucy Mangan of The Guardian, who gave it a three-out-of-five rating and described it as "a lot of daft stories crammed together and spattered with blood for your entertainment".
