Miramax TV Boss On ‘The Gentlemen’s Pandemic Origins & Potential Season 2, Industry Contraction & ‘Halloween’ TV Series Updates

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Almost four years after Marc Helwig joined Miramax as Head Of Worldwide Television, he walked the London red carpet Tuesday for the global premiere of the company’s Guy Ritchie series for Netflix, The Gentlemen, alongside celebrity guests like David Beckham and Jason Statham.

The Gentlemen is a “pandemic series.” In 2020, after he took over Miramax TV, Ritchie’s The Gentlemen movie was on Helwig’s mind, literally.

A billboard for the Miramax film had been put up on his street corner in late 2019 and stayed there until 2022, with Helwig passing by it daily. “It started in the very early days of the pandemic when I first joined Miramax and found myself on these Zooms with Guy Ritchie and his producing partner Ivan Atkinson,” he said about the show’s origins. “The film had turned into a little bit of a cult success after its release; the movie was one of the last major releases before the world shut down.” (The Gentlemen was released in the U.S.

on Jan. 24, 2020.) The trio looked for ways to adapt the film for TV. “There was an opportunity there because Guy had originally conceptualized it as a television series and then [former Miramax CEO] Bill Block decided to go make a movie.