Amazon MGM Studios Readies Guy Ritchie & Rob Williams London Crime Drama ‘Capital’ With Vice Studios & Jack Tar…

EXCLUSIVE: Guy Ritchie‘s back in business at Amazon. Fresh from developing Young Sherlock, he is now attached to London-set crime drama series Capital, we can reveal.

Amazon MGM Studios‘ UK division has put the series into development, with Ritchie the co-writer and co-creator alongside Rob Williams, who wrote BBC drama The Victim, created Netflix miniseries The Witness and was showrunner on Apple TV’s Suspicion. Vice Studios is producing with Marc Resteghini’s Jack Tar Pictures also attached.

Ritchie will also direct and produce Capital, which we hear is a crime drama exploring the underbelly of modern-day London. Development is at an early stage and no casting has been unveiled at this stage.

The series is The Gentlemen creator Ritchie’s second series at Amazon, with the Hero Fiennes Tiffin-starring Young Sherlock recently renewed for a second season on Prime Video and now in production.

Ritchie’s production partner, Ivan Atkinson, is an executive producer on Capital along with Dhana Rivera Gilbert and Resteghini – all of whom are producers on Young Sherlock.

The Sherlock Holmes origin story, which comes from Motive Pictures, has been a big hit for Prime Video, topping its charts in 95 countries and hitting the 45 million viewer mark. Season 1 became one of Prime Video’s top 10 originals ever, so it was no wonder it landed a follow up and helped Ritchie and co get Capital going.

News of Capital comes after Amazon MGM Studios’ British division put a sequel to another well-watched UK drama series, The Girlfriend, into development. As we told you first last month, The Boyfriend will be an entirely separate story to the Olivia Cooke-starring first show, and will be based around themes of masculinity.

We also recently revealed news of Sarek, a drama series for Prime Video Nordics that is coming out of Sweden. Based on Ulf Kvensler’s debut novel, the four-part miniseries will star Felix Sandman, Kitt Walker Johansson, Alva Bratt and Nora Rios.

Vice Studios, meanwhile, recently teamed up with sports journalist Pablo Torre to develop a scripted television drama series centered on sports ownership, extreme wealth and corruption. Others include Flat Earth, based on debut novel from Anika Jade Levy, who will co-write a TV adaptation with Sam Zvibleman, and Work Husbands, a workplace comedy based on the real-life relationship of Gen Z voices Nate Jones and Ziad Ahmed.

Former Amazon exec Resteghini and his Jack Tar operation has a first-look deal with Amazon MGM Studios to develop films and TV series. Shows on his slate includes an animated series adaptation of Tui T. Sutherland’ Wings of Fire novels and a series based around the lyrics of singer-songwriter Billy Joel.