Statham And Ritchie, Seven Films In: Netflix Sends Them Back To The London Underworld

LONDON — Netflix announced on Tuesday that Jason Statham will star in Dogfight, a new feature written, directed and produced by Guy Ritchie — the seventh film the pair have made together, and a return to the London criminal underworld where both their careers began. The streamer describes it as “an action-packed revenge thriller with a stylish twist,” promising “a cast full of colourful criminals and plenty of thrilling action.” Plot details are being kept under wraps.

Twenty-Nine Years, Seven Films

The partnership started with Ritchie’s debut and Statham’s first screen role, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels in 1998, and ran through Snatch (2000) and Revolver (2005) before a sixteen-year gap. The reunion era has been prolific: Wrath of Man (2021), Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre (2023), and the forthcoming Viva La Madness, now in post-production — with Dogfight making seven. Statham produces alongside Ritchie, Ivan Atkinson and John Friedberg; the production companies are Black Bear, Ritchie’s Toff Guy Films and Statham’s Punch Palace. No other casting has been announced, and Netflix has given no release date.

Netflix Doubles Down On Ritchie

For Netflix, the film deepens an already profitable relationship with the director: Dogfight is Ritchie’s second feature-scale collaboration with the streamer after The Gentlemen series — itself spun off from his 2019 film — whose second season dropped in September and which the company moved quickly to extend. Production on Dogfight is scheduled to begin in early 2027, filming across the United Kingdom. It returns both men to home ground: Ritchie’s early films made the London underworld his signature territory, and it is the setting that made Statham, a former market trader and competitive diver, into an action star in the first place.

The Formula

What the pairing sells is a specific house style: fast-cut London underworld mythology built on overlapping dialogue, expandable criminal ensembles and violence played with a smirk — the formula Ritchie codified in Lock, Stock and Snatch and has since exported to Sherlock Holmes, Disney’s Aladdin and The Covenant. Statham, between Ritchie films, has become one of the most dependable action leads in the business, headlining The Beekeeper and A Working Man for director David Ayer. Their joint films trade on the older chemistry: Statham as the deadpan centre of a noisy underworld that Ritchie clearly loves building.

Dogfight’s timing also keeps Ritchie’s Netflix runway continuous: The Gentlemen’s second season arrived in September, Viva La Madness is in post-production, and cameras on Dogfight roll in early 2027 — a production cadence few British directors currently match. Netflix has announced no release window for the film. For now, the announcement itself is the event: twenty-nine years after a first-time director gave a former model his first acting job, the two of them are going back to the same streets, with the biggest platform in television paying for the trip.

What Is Not Known

Plenty. Netflix’s announcement carried no character names, no supporting cast and no plot beyond the revenge frame — who Statham plays, whose death or betrayal sets the story moving, and whether the tone leans toward the knockabout of Snatch or the harder edge of Wrath of Man are all unannounced. Those details usually surface as production approaches; the early-2027 start gives the partners a year of runway. The Daily will update this story as casting and a release window are confirmed.

Sources: Netflix announcement, November 3, 2026 (via Variety); ScreenRant, CBR and Radio Times, November 3, 2026; The Playlist, November 3, 2026.