Netflix has renewed Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen for a second season. The show, which stars Theo James and Kaya Scodelario as partners in crime, will return for eight episodes, with James and Scodelario set to reprise their starring roles as aristocrat Eddie Horniman and drug empire heiress Susie Glass, respectively. Ritchie will also return as director and writer, alongside co-writer Matthew Read. Additional casting for the second season hasn’t yet been announced; filming will get underway in 2025.

The Gentlemen is set in the same universe as Ritchie’s 2019 Miramax film “The Gentlemen,” which starred Charlie Hunnam, Matthew McConaughey, Colin Farrell and Jeremy Strong, but does not have any overlapping characters. The first season of Netflix’s The Gentlemen introduced James as Eddie Horniman as he unexpectedly became the new Duke of Halstead after inheriting his father’s sizable country estate, and discovers Glass and her incarcerated father Bobby (played by Ray Winstone) have been running a cannabis empire on it. Initially, he plans to extricate his family from the gangsters’ clutches.  The second season will kick off with Eddie and Susie ‘at the head of a massive weed empire in a world of bloodthirsty rivals.’

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