Guy Ritchie
Guy Stuart Ritchie ( born September 10, 1968 in Hatfield, Hertfordshire ) is a British screenwriter and film director.
Life and career
Ritchie began in 1995 as a director for commercials and music videos. In the same year he made the short film The Hard Case, with the help of which he could his first film Jack, Queen, King, Stock and Finance, which became a cult film. The subsequent film Snatch - Pigs and Diamonds offered a larger star-studded with actors like Brad Pitt and Benicio del Toro. In addition, Ritchie had a much bigger budget than his debut film Snatch. On 22 December 2000 he married the singer Madonna, with whom he 's controversial music video What It Feels Like For A Girl, and the short film The Hire 2001: Star turned for BMW. His feature film Stormy Love - Swept Away (2003) with Madonna in the lead role fell through, both with the critics and commercially. Two years later, followed by the third film Ritchies Revolver with Jason Statham in the lead role. Commercially the film was not on the successes of Jack, Queen, King, Barrels and Snatch - build pigs and diamonds, but it is the film with which Ritchie to date was the most satisfied.
Madonna and Ritchie have a common biological and one adopted son together. They were divorced on 21 November 2008 in London, he received a severance payment in the amount of 55.6 million to 66.7 million euros.
2008 Ritchie directed the Nike commercial evolution, which was filmed, among other things for the Euro 2008, and he also directed the film Rock N Rolla with Gerard Butler and the advertising series Nespresso - What else? with George Clooney.
2009 Ritchie turned the movie Sherlock Holmes starring Robert Downey Jr. as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson as a Jew Law in the main roles. The film was released on December 25, 2009 in the American cinema, and ran in Germany in February 2010. In 2011, a sequel to the film was titled Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows realized.