Guy Ritchie's unrealized projects

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The following is a list of unproduced Guy Ritchie projects in roughly chronological order. During his long career, English film director Guy Ritchie has worked on a number of projects which never progressed beyond the pre-production stage under his direction. Some of these productions fell in development hell or were cancelled. [1] [2]

Contents

2000s

Knights of Malta

[3] [4]

Layer Cake

[3]

Six Shooters

[5]

Gamekeeper

In 2007, it was reported that Ritchie had planned on making a film based on his Virgin Comics series Gamekeeper for Warner Bros. and film producer Joel Silver. [6] [7]

The Dirty Dozen remake

It was also reported in 2007 that Ritchie was working on a remake of the 1967 film The Dirty Dozen . [8] Ritchie confirmed in a 2007 interview: "No, no, I was interested in doing The Dirty Dozen, I was interested in doing it and maybe I’ll still do it." [9]

Sgt. Rock

In 2008, it was reported that Ritchie was attached to direct a film about the DC Comics character Sgt. Rock for producer Joel Silver. [10] [11] In 2009, Francis Lawrence took over directing the movie from Ritchie. [12] [13]

Lobo

In 2009, it was reported that Ritchie was to helm a film about the DC Comics character Lobo for Warner Bros. [14] [15] [16] In 2010, film producer Joel Silver confirmed in an interview that Ritchie set aside the Lobo project in favor of Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011). [17] It was reported that Brad Peyton and Michael Bay took over the project after Ritchie left the movie. [18] [19]

2010s

The Cannonball Run remake

In February 2011, [20]

Untitled third Sherlock Holmes film

In October 2011, [21]

The Real RocknRolla

In December 2011, Ritchie confirmed that a screenplay had been completed that would serve as a sequel to RocknRolla (2008). [22] The sequel was to have been titled The Real RocknRolla. [23] [24]

Treasure Island

In 2012, it was reported that Ritchie was to helm a film adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island for Warner Bros. [25] [26]

Empire Rising

It was reported in 2013 that Ritchie was in talks with Warner Bros. to direct a film adaptation of Thomas Kelly's 2006 novel Empire Rising. [27] [28] [29]

Aladdin sequel

[30]

2020s

Hercules remake

In 2022, it was reported that Ritchie would direct the live action remake of Disney's Hercules , after having previously made the 2019 Aladdin remake. It was also indicated that original writer David Callaham had exited the project, with producers Joe and Anthony Russo looking for a replacement to work on the screenplay. [31] By late 2023, Taron Egerton and Ariana Grande were reportedly in talks to portray Hercules and Megara respectively, while Danny DeVito was also in talks to play Phil again from the original film. [32] [33]

Offers

Xerxes

In 2011, Ritchie offered to direct the film adaptation of Xerxes , Frank Miller's sequel to 300, which eventually went to Noam Murro. [34]

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