This past April brought word that Sony online channel Crackle was developing a TV series based on Guy Ritchie's 2000 gangster caper Snatch. Things have moved on since then, as Rupert Grint is on board to produce and star alongside Dougray Scott and Ed Westwick.
Much in the same way that Fargo works, the telly version of Snatch will be set in the same world as Ritchie's film, but instead focuses on original characters. It's also inspired by a real-life gold bullion heist in London and follows a group of twenty-something hustlers who stumble on a truck load of the shiny stuff and are suddenly part of a much wider criminal underworld. Soon, they have to learn to deal with mobsters, rogue cops and all the local villains.
With Nick Renton on board to direct the 10-episode first run, Grint will be playing the dynamic, frustratingly chaotic posh lad Charlie Cavendish, with Scott as Vic Hill and Westwick as Sonny Castillo. Alex De Rakoff will be overseeing the series as executive producer and head writer and shooting is set to kick off in Manchester next week. As for when it might hit UK screens, that's anyone's guess, though we figure Sony TV will be pitching it to channels here if it hasn't already, or may even carry it on its own.