Theo James Takes on a Criminal Empire in ‘The Gentlemen’ Trailer

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The White Lotus star Theo James has to extricate his aristocratic family from the clutches of a criminal underworld in the official trailer for The Gentlemen, Guy Ritchie’s gangster romp for Netflix based on the Hollywood director’s 2019 film of the same name.

James plays Eddie Horniman, a well-bred Brit who inherits his father’s country estate, only to discover it’s part of an industrial cannabis empire in the East End of London run by shady career criminal Bobby Glass (Ray Winstone).

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“So to stop ourselves being associated with criminals, we are going to become criminals,” Horniman announces at one point in the trailer. To beat the gangsters at their own game, he gets into business with Susie Glass, played by Kaya Scodelario, who ruthlessly runs the drug empire on behalf of her father.

“I didn’t create this problem. I’m trying to help you deal with it,” she tells Horniman as he gets sucked deeper into a world of lowlife criminals with sharp suits and sharper knives. The Netflix series, where Ritchie revisits his London gangster-comedy roots in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, is set in the world of his movie The Gentlemen.

Starring Hugh Grant, Matthew McConaughey, Charlie Hunnam and Colin Farrell, the original action comedy The Gentlemen portrayed an American expat getting caught up in the complicated sale of a U.K. drug empire.

The Netflix series also stars Daniel Ings, Joely Richardson, Vinnie Jones, Giancarlo Esposito, Chanel Cresswell and Peter Serafinowicz. Ritchie is the creator, co-writer and executive producer of the series. He also directed the first two episodes.

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