“Where There’s A Will – And There Is A Fucking Will – There’s A Way – And There Is A Fucking Way.”
A prequel series to the hit British crime movie Sexy Beast is in development. Deadline is reporting that the new series is on the cards over at Paramount, will track the origin story of Gal Dove, Don Logan and Teddy Bass, played in the movie by Ray Winstone, Ben Kingsley and Ian McShane.
Sexy Beast follows ex-villain Gal (Winstone) who has served his time behind bars and is blissfully retired to a Spanish villa paradise with a wife he adores. The idyll is shattered by the arrival of his nemesis Don (Kingsley), intent on persuading Gal to return to London for one last job. Desperate not to sacrifice his new life of retirement, Gal is drawn into a battle of wills with Don, and takes part in an underwater heist, risking everything to protect the woman he loves.
Though McShane’s Teddy missed out on all the fun in the sun between Don and Gal, it appears that the proposed prequel series will find the character playing a major part alongside the other two.
The prequel will tell the story of up-and-coming criminal Gal as he forms a partnership with Don, both working for criminal mastermind Teddy Bass before meeting and falling for adult film star DeeDee — his future wife. Gal is a brilliant thief and Don is a vicious gangster, and the series will explore the pair’s complicated relationship as Gal finds himself descending into the seductive madness of the London criminal world during the volatile 1990s.
Kingsley earned an Oscar nomination and won a Critics’ Choice Award for his performance in Sexy Beast. The film also won Best Director and Best Screenplay from the British Independent Film Awards and Special Recognition (for excellence in filmmaking) from the National Board of Review. In 2004, Total Film named Sexy Beast the 15th greatest British film of all time. You can watch a trailer below –
The Sopranos and Rescue Me veteran Michael Caleco will write the Sexy Beast prequel series, though at this early stage there is no news on who will play the three main characters in the show.
