Wednesday, June 4

• Guy Ritchie to Direct Sherlock Holmes

  Warner Bros. has hired Guy Ritchie to direct Sherlock Holmes, which will be based more on Lionel Wigram's upcoming comicbook adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic series than on the original series itself.

  Ritchie will also be tweaking the script. Word is we can expect him to breathe new life into the pipe-smoking 19th century smarty, perhaps incorporating Holmes's boxing and swordfighting skills into his sleuthing. Sounds like Holmes is going to kick some serious nerd butt.

  Source: Variety.

  
  

  Posted 06/04/2008 by Heather

  Guy Ritchie | Sherlock Holmes

Thursday, April 17

• Madonna adds "Director" to her resume

  Not content to sit and watch her director husband Guy Ritchie have all the fun, Singer/Kabbalist Madonna is entering the filmmaking game. Variety reports that IFC has snapped up the rights to the Material Girl's directorial debut, Filth and Wisdom, described as a "comedic drama" featuring an ensemble of colorful characters, among them "a man who spanks for money, a chemist and a pole dancer."

  Let's just hope she's better at directing than she is at acting. Filth and Wisdom is slated to debut in theaters and video on demand this fall.

  Source: Variety

  
  

  Posted 04/17/2008 by Thomas

  Guy Ritchie | Madonna

Wednesday, March 26

• Thandie Newton dishes on Guy Ritchie's next flick(s)

  ReelzChannel.com caught up with actress Thandie Newton (Beloved, Crash) at the recent press day for her romantic comedy, Run, FatBoy, Run, which opens this weekend and the British beauty gave us some details on her upcoming projects.

  "I did a movie with Guy Ritchie called Rocknrolla, which I think is coming out at the end of the year. And I loved it," she said. "It's him going back--I don't want to say going back to what he's done before, but it's more about the underworld of London. It's just fantastic," she continued. "He wrote it. The script was like a sketch, and he just let us be very spontaneous and create."

  But Newton had a little more to reveal about Mr. Madonna's intentions with Rocknrolla--which she said is part of a trilogy--and her character. "[Ritchie] cleverly didn't really say there was going to be another movie because a lot of people die, as you can imagine," she said. "Thankfully my character survives, so I'll be doing the next one."

  
  

  Posted 03/26/2008 by Heather

  Thandie Newton | Guy Ritchie | Rock N Rolla

Saturday, October 27

• Guy Ritchie and the Russian Mafia

  In town to promote his trippy new gangster flick Revolver, UK filmmaker Guy Ritchie (you know, the dude who's married to Madonna) gave us a glimpse of his next project, RocknRolla:

  "That's not such cerebral stuff -- that's fun," described Ritchie, contrasting RocknRolla's tone with the brainier Revolver. "It's kind of a commentary on how London is now. It's all to do with Russian oligarchs buying up the city and stuff and then the shenanigans that take place in the underworld because of that."

  Oil-rich Russian oligarchs have flocked to London in recent years, riling some native Brits with their extravagant spending habits. "There is a particular oligarch in the film who builds soccer stadiums," Ritchie hinted, most likely referencing Roman Abramovich, the billionaire Russian oil baron who stirred up much controversy in the UK when he purchased England's fabled Chelsea Football Club in 2003.

  
  
  Next Showing: Revolver opens December 7th

  Posted 10/27/2007 by Thomas

  Guy Ritchie | Revolver

Thursday, July 26

• Fanboy alert: Guy Ritchie on Gamekeeper, Iron Man drives an Audi, and more!

  King of the hard-core quick cut (and Mr. Madonna) Guy Ritchie will be bringing his comic series, The Gamekeeper, to the silver screen.

  Ritchie, who will direct (naturally), came up with concept--that of a Scottish caretaker who uses the animals of the urban jungle to seek revenge on his son's murderer. Hey, if anyone can make British gardeners badass, it's Ritchie.

  Elsewhere, Paramount and Marvel have inked a deal with Audi for sponsorship of its upcoming mega-movie, Iron Man. What does that mean? Tony Stark will be tooling around in his Audi R8 supercar, of course. Those of us who have ridden in Audis know it isn't an entirely illogical choice.

  And finally, DreamWorks is making plans to adapt comics Courtney Crumrin and The Damned for film. The former is Ted Naifeh's comic about the misfit daughter of well-to-do parents who discovers magic in her uncle's creepy mansion. The latter is Cullen Bunn and Brian Hurtt's horror noir about rival gangsters that must unite to combat supernatural demons.

  Dreamworks bought the rights to both. No word yet on scripts, directors or shoot dates.

  Source: Variety.

  
  

  Posted 07/26/2007 by Heather

  Guy Ritchie | The Gamekeeper | Courtney Crumrin | The Damned | Iron Man