Netflix has renewed Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen for a second season.
Ritchie, who set the TV show in the world of Miramax’s film of the same name, will return to direct the series, while Theo James, Kaya Scodelario and Daniel Ings will reprise their starring roles. Additional casting for the second season hasn’t yet been announced.
The first season of The Gentlemen introduced James as Eddie Horniman as he unexpectedly became the new Duke of Halstead after inheriting his father’s sizable country estate. The snag is that the aristocratic pile came with an illegal weed farm run by ruthless Susie (Scodelario) and her crime boss father Bobby Glass, played by Ray Winstone.
Horniman became a reluctant yet genteel gangster and an ally of Susie as they faced down rival and hilarious gangster families in an equally back- and front-stabbing business world. The second season, to be written by Ritchie and Matthew Read, will kick off with Eddie and Susie at the head of a massive weed empire in a world of bloodthirsty rivals.
Filming will get underway in 2025.
James told Netflix’s Tudum website of his character’s evolving relationship with partner-in-crime Susie: “I think they’ve grown to love each other in their own way, but I think they’ll never fully trust each other because they are so different and they’re from such vastly different worlds. There’s a love between them, but ultimately they will never be from the same cloth.”
The Gentlemen is executive produced by Ritchie, Will Gould, Read, Frith Tiplady, Marc Helwig and Ivan Atkinson. The series is produced by Moonage Pictures for Netflix and Miramax Television
