Dexter Fletcher is set to helm a remake of The League of Gentlemen, the classic 1960 heist movie starring Jack Hawkins, Nigel Patrick, Roger Livesey and Richard Attenborough.
The story follows a group of ex-British Army officers, all disillusioned with civilian life, who are recruited by a disgruntled former colonel, Hyde, to execute a meticulously planned bank robbery. Using their military expertise, they prepare with precision, rehearsing the job like a military operation, but tensions, greed, and personal weaknesses threaten to unravel the scheme.
The new project will be a modern-day remake, with Bek Smith (Moana 2) writing the script. Fletcher has been attached to the project for over a year, when it was in development at Skydance. Now that Skydance Media and Paramount Global have merged, the project is in the works at Paramount.
Fletcher’s last movie was Ghosted, a romantic action-adventure comedy released on Apple TV+ in 2023. The film follows salt-of-the-earth Cole (Chris Evans) as he falls head over heels for enigmatic Sadie (Ana de Armas) — but then makes the shocking discovery that she’s a secret agent. Before they can decide on a second date, Cole and Sadie are swept away on an international adventure to save the world. Although the film was Apple’s most-watched movie debut at the time, the reviews weren’t kind, with Evans even admitting that it “could have been better.“
Evans said he signed on to Ghosted because it “felt like a movie that I grew up on, a movie that maybe we don’t see very much anymore. And the question is whether or not audiences have outgrown those types of films.” When asked if he had that question going into the project or coming out of it, Evans said, “Both. I didn’t think audiences had outgrown it prior, and I still don’t think they have, despite the fact, I mean, technically I think we did okay on, in terms of viewership. Critics didn’t like it. But that’s more the fault of the movie as opposed to the appetite of the audience. I think the appetite’s there, if it’s done properly. We could have been better.“
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