By Tom Hardy, Helen Mirren and Pierce Brosnan are all in final talks to star in Guy Ritchie’s new gangster drama TV series “The Associate” on the Paramount+ service.
The project was originally greenlit as a ‘loosely based’ spin-off/reimagining of the Showtime crime drama series “Ray Donovan” and followed a family of London’s most elite fixers.
Now though, the project has been redeveloped into a standalone series with no connections to that franchise. However, Irish writer Ronan Bennett remains on board to write all ten episodes.
Showtime, MTV Studios and 101 Studios are backing the project that Ritchie will direct. Ritchie and Bennett serve as executive producers, alongside David C. Glasser, Ron Burkle, Bob Yari, David Hutkin and Ivan Atkinson.
Bennett created the British crime series “Top Boy,” the script for Michael Mann’s “Public Enemies,” and both produced and wrote the upcoming Sky/Peacock mini-series adaptation of “The Day of the Jackal”.
Ritchie is coming off turning his 2019 dark comedy crime film “The Gentlemen” into a TV series for Netflix, and directing the period war caper film “The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare”.
Source: Deadline
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