In the last five years, Guy Ritchie has made no fewer than six movies and three TV shows — including such feature-length fare as Wrath Of Man, the cannily titled Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant, and Fountain Of Youth alongside bingeable small-screen offerings MobLand, The Gentlemen, and Young Sherlock. But while some of the British auteur’s recent projects — mostly on the movie front — may have fallen a little short of the Snatch director’s glory days, his latest film, Benedict Cumberbatch, Rosamund Pike, and Sir Anthony Hopkins led thriller Wife & Dog, looks like it could be a real return to form. Check out the intense teaser trailer below;
“The relentless greed of the Fairbank family and their associates fuels betrayal and murder in the battle for succession.” So reads the short but to-the-point synopsis for Guy Ritchie’s latest thriller. And while the exact nature of the greed, betrayal, and murder at hand here is a little hard to parse in a 60-second teaser trailer, the storm that Ritchie — pulling double duty as writer-director — is brewing certainly looks to be of thunderous consequence. From Fairbank family patriarch Hopkins’ ominous tale of a man in a pit, to the framing of Cumberbatch’s character as the one left for dead who’s dug through hell to exact revenge, to the murderers row assembled by Ritchie to play their part in the drama unfolding (Cosmo Jarvis! James Norton! Paddy Considine!), the stage is perfectly set for a Ritchie special. And that’s ignoring the blood-red shots of Cumberbatch making particularly creative use of a pool cue and going full beast mode with a shotgun. (Now there’s a sentence we never imagined writing.)
What is going on with the Fairbank clan? Why is Benedict Cumberbatch out for blood? Whose blood is he out for? Is that Tom Davis we spy in a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it shot midway through the trailer? And is the title referencing some sort of John Wick style set-up at play? We’ll find out when Wife & Dog hits cinemas in February next year.
