

The production of crime comedy heist Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels was completed in about eight months.

Empire magazine's entry for Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels on their list of the 100 best British films
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After all, this is a movie that brought the world ' The Stath', Vinnie Jones hammering someone's skull with a car door, and the knowledge that a big purple dildo can be used as an offensive weapon. There's a perennial pub debate that poses the question: Which is better, Snatch or Lock Stock? Snatch apologists talk a good game, but the correct answer is, of course, Guy Ritchie's jaw-dropping debut. Trudie Styler served as an executive producer-she said "I've always liked bad-boy movies". It took 15 months to secure financial backing. Vaughn had been working in Los Angeles and expressed interest in producing Ritchie's directorial debut, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998). 1998–2002: Breakthrough Īfter Ritchie's first project on a short film, The Hard Case (1995), in 1998, Ritchie met Matthew Vaughn, godson of Peter Morton, co-founder of the Hard Rock Cafe chain. He has claimed that drug use was the reason for expulsion, although Ritchie's father said he was "cutting class and entertaining a girl in his room". Ritchie is dyslexic, and attended Windlesham House School in West Sussex and Stanbridge Earls School in Hampshire. As a divorcée, she is styled as Amber, Lady Leighton. Between 19, Ritchie's mother was married to Sir Michael Leighton, 11th Baronet of Loton Park. His father's second marriage was to Shireen Ritchie, Baroness Ritchie of Brompton, a former model and later Conservative politician and life peer. He has an older sister, Tabitha, and a half-brother, Kevin, who was born to Amber Parkinson and put up for adoption.

1928), former Seaforth Highlanders serviceman and advertising executive. Ritchie was born in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, the second of two children of Amber ( née Parkinson) and Captain John Vivian Ritchie (b. Life and career 1968–1997: Early life and career beginnings His thirteenth feature, Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre, initially set for 2022, released in March 2023. In 2021, he directed Jason Statham in the action film Wrath of Man. In 2020, he returned to crime comedy with The Gentlemen (2019), which was mostly well received and a commercial success. Aladdin earned more than $1 billion worldwide, becoming one of the highest-grossing films in 2019, and the 34th highest-grossing film of all-time during its theatrical run. (2015), which is a remake of a 1960s spy series, King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017) and the live-action adaptation of Disney's Aladdin (2019). His other directed motion pictures are The Man From U.N.C.L.E. The former was nominated for Academy Awards in Best Original Score and Best Art Direction. In 20, he directed two box-office hits, Sherlock Holmes and its sequel, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, respectively. He went on to direct Revolver (2005) and RocknRolla (2008), which were less successful and received mixed reviews. Following Snatch, Ritchie directed Swept Away (2002), a critically panned box-office bomb starring Madonna, to whom Ritchie was married between 20. He gained recognition with his second film, Snatch (2000), which found critical and commercial success. In 1995, he directed a short film, The Hard Case, followed by the crime comedy Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998), his feature-length directorial debut. Ritchie left school at age 15 and worked entry-level jobs in the film industry before going on to direct television commercials. His work includes British gangster films, and the Sherlock Holmes films starring Robert Downey Jr. Guy Stuart Ritchie (born 10 September 1968) is an English film director, producer and screenwriter.
