Netflix Begins Production on The Gentlemen Season 3

Netflix has begun production on the third season of The Gentlemen, with filming underway in the UK and Morocco and eight new cast members joining Guy Ritchie’s crime drama. The additions are Robert Carlyle, Elijah Wood, Orlando Bloom, Dexter Fletcher, Bruna Marquezine, Ed Speleers, Saffron Burrows and Bugzy Malone. Theo James and Kaya Scodelario return as Eddie Horniman and Susie Glass, the central characters in the series. The season is planned as eight episodes, each 60 minutes long. Netflix’s season synopsis says Eddie and Susie will attempt to build a casino in the Middle East. It describes the venture as their most ambitious project yet and signals that danger will complicate the plan. The synopsis raises the question of whether Eddie’s ambition has gone too far, but does not disclose how the storyline will resolve. The returning cast also includes Ray Winstone, Joely Richardson, Vinnie Jones, Jasmine Blackborow, Harry Goodwins, Benjamin Clementine and Maya Jama. The new season follows the characters’ criminal enterprise after Eddie inherited an estate concealing a criminal operation and formed a partnership with Susie. Daniel Ings, who played Eddie’s brother Freddy, said...