Guy Ritchie Expands 'The Gentlemen' Universe to Include 'Wife & Dog'

Guy Ritchie's attempt to resuscitate his would-be British Upperclass Gangster Film Franchise, The Gentlemen, has gone far better than anyone could have imagined. The original film (with the same name) debuted at the end of 2019 in the U.K.; there were high hopes for it to land as an American hit when it debuted the following March... March of 2020, that is. That was derailed, so Ritchie took the film's conceit and created a follow-up TV series for Netflix called The Gentlemen. The series proceeded to be one of Netflix's most-watched shows of 2024, garnering a renewal and now a second feature film called Wife & Dog.

The original film was a spin on the upper class titled Lords of England, a group struggling to pay for their estate upkeep since the Gilded Age. In Ritchie's world, they turn to growing cannabis to make ends meet, with a stellar cast that includes Brit favorites Charlie Hunnam (Queer as Folk), Michelle Dockery (Downton Abbey), Eddie Marsan (Ridley Road), Colin Farrell (The Penguin), and Hugh Grant (Paddington), plus Henry Golding (Persuasion), Jeremy Strong (Succession), and Matthew McConaughey (Interstellar).

The TV series focused on the next generation that inherits this dirty little secret of how the bills get paid, with Theo James (Sanditon) as a son who inherits a manor, only to discover he's a midlevel cog in a black market operation, and decides to move himself up the chain. The series is set to return with Season 2 in 2026, but before that, Ritchie will introduce a third strand to this tapestry with a second feature film: Wife & Dog.