In that case, granting wishes is what Guy Ritchie has been up to.

As you point out, in recent years he's strayed toward big-budget Hollywood territory, with varying degrees of success, after making his name in low-budget and distinctly British fare.

Despite the fact that his last big film, 2017's "King Arthur: Legend of the Sword," was by most measures a flop, he's been given another huge budget to produce the live-action remake of the classic Disney cartoon "Aladdin" (1992). (Which is about a genie granting the wishes of a street kid, hence the wish joke.)

That film's currently in post-production and slated for release in May 2019. In the meantime, he has, in fact, been plotting his return to British gangster cinema.

He recently signed a deal with American indie house Miramax to produce his script "Toff Guys," reportedly about a British drug lord trying to sell his empire to a group of billionaires from Oklahoma. Ritchie will direct the picture, returning, as you wish, to the genre that made him famous.

Ritchie exploded onto the film scene with 1998's "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels," and followed it up with 2000's "Snatch," both classics of the British crime cinema.

Indeed, Ritchie is often credited with popularizing the genre among American audiences, though it, of course, predates him. Films like "The Long Good Friday" (1980) and "Get Carter" (1971) are considered cinematic classics, though they certainly made bigger splashes in their native Britain than elsewhere. 

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