Guy Ritchie’s SNATCH Will Be a TV Series Starring Rupert Grint
Guy Ritchie's classic film Snatch is being adapted into a series for Sony’s streaming network Crackle. I’m a huge fan of the film Snatch, and I even had a role in the film’s marketing campaign before it was released in 2000. I never thought I’d see it end up being a series, but it’s happening, and Harry Potter’s Rupert Grint has landed a lead role. According to Deadline:
Snatch will carry the spirit of the setting in the film, while creating a new world with new characters. Inspired by a real life heist in London, Snatch, centers on a group of twenty-something, up-and-coming hustlers who stumble upon a truck load of stolen gold bullion and are suddenly thrust into the high-stakes world of organized crime. The boys must quickly learn to navigate the treacherous waters of London’s underworld as rogue cops, gypsy fighters, international mobsters and local villains descend.
Sounds like it could be fun! I’m happy that it’s not going to be a direct remake and tell the same story. This seems like it’s going to expand more on world that the film set up. According to the report, Grint will play the “dynamic, frustratingly chaotic and utterly posh con man, Charlie Cavendish.” Dougray Scott (Fear the Walking Dead) will play Vic Hill, “who continues the con game from inside prison,” and Ed Westwick (Wicked City) plays night club owner Sonny Castillo.
The series starts shooting next week in Manchester, England, and there will be ten episodes total in the first season. The show is set to premiere sometime in 2017.