2026 has been a roller-coaster of a year for Guy Ritchie, who has directed and produced some career-defining projects, but also some duds. Ritchie found success earlier in the year with his work on Young Sherlock, the Sherlock Holmes prequel series that steamrolled competition on Prime Video. The streamer also decided to bring back the show for Season 2, though it’s still unclear at this time when it will be released. Ritchie stumbled with his return to theaters and reunion with Henry Cavill on the new action movie, In The Grey, which also stars Jake Gyllenhaal, who he previously worked with on The Covenant. In The Grey failed to find box office glory, but the film has gone on to become one of the most-watched streaming hits of the year on Starz since its debut a few weeks ago.
So far this year, Ritchie has produced must-watch streaming hits for both Netflix and Paramount Plus. On Netflix, fans can’t stop watching the second season of The Gentlemen, but despite the profound streaming success, the fate of the show beyond Season 2 has yet to be decided. The same can’t be said for Ritchie’s MobLand (starring Tom Hardy), which was renewed even before it became the #1 most-watched show in the world. Ritchie also found streaming success in 2025 with his only new movie, Fountain of Youth, which was released straight-to-streaming on Apple TV. The movie reportedly cost around $200 million to make and market, and while this is certainly a pricey bill to foot for a movie that was never released in theaters, it certainly helps that it’s been in the Apple TV top 10 for over 275 days now.
Collider Exclusive · Action Franchise Quiz What Action Series Would You Thrive In? Wick · Fast · Mission · Die Hard
Four franchises. Four completely different ideas of what a hero is: the assassin with a code, the family that never leaves anyone behind, the man who does his own stunts, and the guy who simply refuses to die. Only one of them runs on your particular brand of trouble. Eight questions will tell you which one you would survive.
🐕Wick
🏁Fast
🧨Mission
🎄Die Hard
01
How does a room know you’ve walked into it? Every action hero arrives differently. Some of them arrive before they arrive.
02
It turns physical. What does your fighting actually look like? Choreography is character. Yours says something about you.
03
Who is standing beside you when it starts? Some franchises are built on a team. Others are built on one person walking in alone.
04
It has gone badly wrong. What keeps you upright? Act two exists to find out what you’re actually made of.
05
There’s a vehicle. What are you driving, and how? No action franchise has ever survived without a car chase. This one is yours.
06
How do you feel about the people giving the orders? There is always an institution. There is rarely a good one.
07
Underneath all of it, what are you actually doing this for? The stunts are the reason people come. This is the reason they stay.
08
When the credits roll, what do people say about you? Every franchise is really an argument about what makes someone worth watching.
Casting Has Been Completed Your Franchise Is…
Four action series. One of them is built around exactly the way you
handle pressure, people, and a room that has just gone very quiet. Here is where you would survive
the trilogy, and probably headline it.
John Wick · Chapters 1–4 · 2014–2023
John Wick
You are precision with a grudge. You don’t posture, you don’t
escalate, and you don’t warn anybody twice. That is exactly why the people who know you are
so careful never to be the reason you start.
The Wick films run on discipline: an underworld with actual etiquette, a hero who
honours every rule of it, and a world that unravels the instant someone breaks one
against him.
You share that quality. You are extraordinarily reasonable right up to the line, and
then completely immovable past it.
Focus, commitment and sheer will. You’d be the one carrying grief through three sequels
and turning it into technique rather than noise.
People wouldn’t call you dangerous. They’d say your name quietly and let that do the
work.
The Fast and the Furious · Fast X · 2001–2023
Fast & Furious
You understand the thing the whole franchise is secretly about:
the cars are spectacular, but the crew is the point. You collect people, you keep them, and
you’d drive through a building for any one of them.
This series went from street racing to orbit without ever changing its actual subject,
because loyalty scales and plot doesn’t have to.
You have the same instinct. You build a family out of whoever turns up, and then you
defend it past the point of reason.
You’d thrive here because the franchise rewards exactly your strengths: warmth, nerve,
an absolute refusal to leave anyone behind, and a relaxed relationship with physics.
The mission can wait. The barbecue cannot.
Mission: Impossible · The Final Reckoning · 1996–2025
Mission: Impossible
You over-prepare and then take the dangerous part yourself
anyway. It looks like control, but it’s really responsibility. You have never worked out how
to ask somebody else to carry the risk.
This is the franchise of the plan that collapses on schedule: the team, the mask, the
rooftop, and the one person sprinting flat out because sprinting is all that’s left.
You share that refusal to accept an outcome. Told the odds, you treat them as an
administrative error.
You’d thrive here because these films reward competence and loyalty in equal measure.
The mission matters, but nobody on the team gets left on the wrong side of a door.
Some people delegate the cliff. You have never once been that person.
Die Hard · A Good Day to Die Hard · 1988–2013
Die Hard
You are not the most trained person in the building, the best
equipped, or the one anybody would have picked. You are simply the one still standing at the
end, which turns out to be the only qualification that matters.
Die Hard invented the modern action hero by making him mortal: outgunned, out-planned,
bleeding, and extremely funny about it.
You share that stubbornness. Adversity doesn’t make you noble, it makes you sarcastic,
and then it makes you unstoppable.
You’d thrive here because these films reward improvisation and nerve over preparation,
and you’ve never had the luxury of preparing anyway.
You didn’t want any of this. You just declined to be the person who let it happen.
What Is ‘Fountain of Youth’ About?
James Vanderbilt, who recently wrote and directed Nuremberg (starring Russell Crowe) wrote the script for Fountain of Youth with Ritchie directing. The film stars John Krasinski and Natalie Portman as long-lost siblings, with Eiza González, Domhnall Gleeson, and Arian Moayed filling out the rest of the ensemble. The official synopsis for Fountain of Youth, which earned scores of 35% from critics and 38% from audiences on Rotten Tomatoes, reads as follows: “A treasure-hunting mastermind assembles a team for a big adventure. But to outwit and outrun threats at every turn, he’ll need someone even smarter, his estranged sister.”
Check out Fountain of Youth on Apple TV and stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of Guy Ritchie’s future projects.
Release Date
May 19, 2025
Runtime
126 minutes
Writers
James Vanderbilt
Producers
Jake Myers, William Sherak, Dana Goldberg, David Ellison, Don Granger, Tripp Vinson, Ivan Atkinson
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