Anthony Hopkins to star in new Guy Ritchie film ‘Wife & Dog’

Anthony Hopkins will be starring in Guy Ritchie’s next feature film, Wife & Dog, alongside Benedict Cumberbatch and Rosamund Pike.

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As per Deadline, filming on the project looks set to begin in February 2025 and the film is described as a “return to the colourful, back-stabbing world of the British aristocracy Richie explored in The Gentleman film and TV series.”

The screenplay for the film has been written by Ritchie, who will also produce the film alongside Black Bear’s John Friedberg, and Ivan Atkinson.

This will be Black Bear’s third collaboration with Ritchie and Atkinson following The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare and In the Grey.

It’s not yet clear what part Hopkins will play in the film.

Meanwhile, last month reports suggested that Tom Hardy, Helen Mirren and Pierce Brosnan are set to appear together in a new series directed by Ritchie. 

According to the reports, the trio are in final negotiations to star in a new Paramount+ show called The Associate (as per Deadline).

The drama series is set to follow two generations of gangsters, the businesses they run, the complex relationships they weave, and the man they call upon to fix their problems. Hardy is set for the role of a fixer by the name Harry while Mirren and Brosnan will star as the crime family’s matriarch and patriarch, respectively.

Ritchie’s most recent work was the spy action comedy The Ministry Of Ungentlemanly Warfare which was released on Prime Video over the summer.

The film tells a fictionalised version of Operation Postmaster, a British special operation during the Second World War that was tasked with sabotaging Nazi plans and supporting resistance movements in overseas territories.

Henry Cavill stars in the lead role of Gus March-Phillips, one of the leading British spies of the era, with Rory Kinnear playing Churchill. Cary Elwes, Alex Pettyfer, Henry Golding and Eiza Gonzalez co-star.

It is a prolific period for Ritchie, with Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre and The Covenant, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, both arriving within the last year. He also debuted a TV spin-off of The Gentlemen on Netflix in March.

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