After 10 Years, Jason Statham and Guy Ritchie's New Action Thriller Finally Wraps Filming [Exclusive]

Image via Ian West/PA Images/INSTARimages Published May 15, 2026, 7:00 AM EDT Sign in to your Collider account Summary Collider's Steven Weintraub talks with Guy Ritchie for In the Grey. Ritchie breaks down the "cause and effect" reality of the action thriller starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Eiza González, and Henry Cavill. He also discusses revisiting Sherlock Holmes and RocknRolla and the status of his next Jason Statham movie. From Black Bear Pictures, writer-director Guy Ritchie returns to the big screen and another elaborate criminal underworld with In the Grey, where stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Eiza González, and Henry Cavill operate in a reality where every cause has immediate effects. Talking with Collider’s Steven Weintraub, Ritchie explains, “In our world, cause and effect, and price and product, have deliberately been separated,” but in the Grey, “You have to be smart, because if you're not, you die.” In addition to discussing this ruthless world of elite operatives, in which our trio finds themselves in a deadly game of survival, Ritchie talks with us about the potential to return to some of his most talked about movies, like Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law’s Sherlock Holmes franchise (which Prime Video’s Young Sherlock has proven there’s still a hunger for) and Gerard Butler’s 2008 crime comedy RocknRolla. During their conversation, Ritchie also chats about a future project that is not only confirmed but has wrapped filming. After “10 years or more,” the director and Jason Statham’s passion project, action thriller Viva la Madness, is finally in the editing process, and Ritchie teases it’s a fun and wild ride — “The clue’s in the title.” You can check out all of this and more in the video above, or the transcript below. 'Sherlock Holmes 3' Could Still Happen With Robert Downey Jr. Another RocknRolla isn't completely off the table either. Image via Warner Bros. COLLIDER: What are the chances of us ever getting RocknRolla 2? GUY RITCHIE: That’s quite funny. I’ve been asked that a bit lately. I'd love to. That's just caught up in a world of administrative, boring quagmire of nonsense. But who knows? We're all going to be older and grayer if that ever comes to fruition. I read, and I could be wrong, that some of the ideas you had for that were adapted into some of your other movies, or am I completely off base? RITCHIE: It's true. Yeah, yeah. Quite a lot of those ideas drifted into The Gentlemen, which seem quite obvious, even by me mentioning it, actually. The other thing that I'm curious about is, is Young Sherlock sort of the focus of all your Sherlock energy, or do you think there's ever a chance of more Sherlock Holmes movies? RITCHIE: I’d love to. I adore Downey, and I adored making those two movies. Look, I think it's just honestly a question of just aligning our schedules. I know the appetite for it's there, but the appetite for it from our side is there, too. So, we'd love to make that happen. I just don’t know how it’s going to happen. It’s amazing that it hasn’t happened. To be honest, I'm really disappointed it hasn't. I've asked Susan [Downey], I've asked all the players so many times, and I just would love to will it to happen. RITCHIE: Me too. Related Guy Ritchie Breaks Down 'In the Grey's "Cause and Effect" Philosophy "In order to be in that world, you have to be smart, because if you're not, you die." One of the things that I love about this movie, truly, is that none of the characters are stupid. We're watching people at the top of their game, not bickering, not doing stupid shit, not pulling double crosses, just a team of people trying to execute a plan. I love it. Can you talk about writing that and the fact that you aren't showing people with stupid Hollywood tropes in it, if this makes any sense, what I'm saying? RITCHIE: It does make sense. Let me try and address that because it’s a good question. Thank you. I suppose one of the reasons I'm attracted to it is because it's a world where cause and effect are very real. I suppose in our world, cause and effect, and price and product, have deliberately been separated because we're after some interpretation of a world of what we want it to be, so we ignore the consequences and we ignore effects. So, in this world, cause and effect have to be placed upon each other, and price and product. So if you get things wrong, you die, or you get incarcerated, or there are consequences, and there's a lot of merit to that. There's a lot of merit to, to use a rather crass and clumsy analogy, if you eat a lot of food, you get fat. If you don't spend a lot of energy getting rid of the calories, then you get fat. There is a cause: eating and getting fat. But somehow you have to wait. One doesn't happen quickly after the other. So, by going to the gym, it's the same thing. Nothing happens quickly in the gym. It takes months before there's an upside to going to the gym. So, we live in a world where cause and effect are separated from each other. But in this world, there is a consequence to the cause. Now, in order to be in that world, you have to be smart, because if you're not, you die. So, it edits itself, this world. Only the strong survive, or only the smart survive within this world. So it feels like an ambiguous world of rufty-tufty stuff, but actually the reality of the world is, unless you’re smart, you don't get to survive because the effect to the cause is dramatic and real. I think probably in our world, as I say, the two have been separated deliberately. You don't have to be very smart because there isn’t really an effect. There is ultimately, but it's not tethered to the cause, at least, literally. So, this world does exist, which I find interesting, but it's not drawn down by the rather boring world of legality. So, if you wish to reclaim your debt, you’re going to do it by any means necessary. And if the legal world can't help you, then you have to go about collecting that debt in other ways. So, that world does exist, and when you're dealing with that many zeros, you realize that there are all sorts of things you can do to reclaim debts, and to conceal the reality of how you reclaim that debt. You can conceal it in paperwork and by shell companies and so on. It's hiding behind one Trojan horse after another. It leads to some form of… You have to be clever. I suppose that's attractive to me, that you can have two worlds of effect and cause, and in one of them you need to be smart, and in the other one, you just need to be blunt. Long-winded answer. I appreciate it. Guy Ritchie and Jason Statham's 'Viva la Madness' Wraps Filming "Jason and I have been trying to make that for about 10 years or more." Ian West/PA Images/INSTARimages You know that I love when you and Jason Statham team up. I know you were filming or are filming Viva la Madness. What can you what can you tell people about it? Because obviously I will be seeing it the second I can. RITCHIE: Yeah, I think we finished that about a month ago. It was a great pleasure working with Jason. It's true to its title. and it. By the way, Jason and I have been trying to make that for about 10 years or more, so it was a catharsis making it. It should be great. We’re only a month or so into the editing, but it's pretty great fun. I'm not sure when we wrap that up, when that comes out, but great fun, and I had a wonderful time making it. Can you tease how it might be different from what you've already done, or is it more like you guys just having a blast and it looks fun on screen? RITCHIE: It's based on the book, and so for anyone familiar with the book, it's a great, fun book. So, that's the world, and it is mad. So, as I said, the clue’s in the title, in Viva la Madness. So, it should be great fun. I think it is. In the Grey is in theaters now. Release Date May 15, 2026 Runtime 98 Minutes Director Guy Ritchie