A sequel to Guy Ritchie's big-screen crime-comedy hit "The Gentlemen" (2019) is being produced right now, but it has nothing to do with the setup at the end of the movie. And also, it won't be a movie.

I won't spoil the original film's ending because I don't have to: The sequel will feature all new characters who exist in "the world" of the original film.

This info comes from Netflix, which is producing the followup as a series instead of a movie. No premiere date has been announced yet, as the filming only started in November.

It will star Theo James (star of the "Divergent" films, as well as the HBO series "The Time Traveler's Wife") as a young British aristocrat who inherits his family's estate, only to learn that it sits on top of a sprawling underground marijuana farm. (This is the link to the original film, which was about a crime lord trying to sell his sprawling empire of these subterranean grow-ops.)

This will be Ritchie's third attempt to turn one of his hit crime movies into a series. He first tried adapting his career-making hit "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" (1998) for Britain's Channel 4, but it was cancelled after just a few episodes in 2000.

He tried again with his followup film, "Snatch" (2000), which got the TV treatment in 2017. This one got two seasons before getting yanked.

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