Guy Ritchie's upcoming feature Wife & Dog has added British actor Cosmo Jarvis to its cast. The actor, known for his lead role in the critically acclaimed and award-winning series Shogun, joins veterans Benedict Cumberbatch, Rosamund Pike and Anthony Hopkins.
As per reports, the film might see Ritchie revisiting the "colourful, back-stabbing world of British aristocracy" as in his Netflix series The Gentlemen and the feature-length film of the same name.
Wife & Dog has a script by Ritchie, who is bankrolling it with his frequent producing partners Ivan Atkinson and John Friedberg of the studio Black Bear.
Aside from Shogun, which co-starred Japanese thespian Hiroyuki Sanada, Jarvis is known for appearances in Lady Macbeth, Calm With Horses, and the new Netflix adaptation of Jane Austen's Persuasion.
Jarvis' upcoming lineup also includes director Barry Levinson's gangster drama The Alto Nights, in which Robert De Niro plays dual characters, and the Iraq War film Warfare from Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland, and Australian prison drama Inside.
Aside from Wife & Dog, Ritchie directed two films. Both are in the post-production stage. The first is Fountain of Youth, a heist movie featuring John Krasinski, Natalie Portman, Domhnall Gleeson, and Eiza González. It is set for an Apple TV+ premiere this year. The second is In the Grey, an action thriller headlined by Henry Cavill, Jake Gyllenhaal, Eiza González, and Rosamund Pike.
Guy Ritchie's last feature-length release was The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, a World War II action-adventure starring Henry Cavill and Alan Ritchson.
He directed a few episodes of the Netflix series The Gentlemen, based on his own film of the same name starring Mathew McConaughey. Though the two shared the same title, the storylines have no connection.
