Overall, 2025 was a solid year for Guy Ritchie. After successfully venturing into television in 2024 with a new spin on his 2019 action comedy hit The Gentlemen and releasing an audience favorite in The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, the director once again turned to the small screen to helm two episodes of the Paramount+ breakout hit MobLand starring Tom Hardy, Helen Mirren, and Pierce Brosnan.

On the film side, though, it wasn’t all smooth sailing, with his new Henry Cavill and Jake Gyllenhaal team-up, In the Grey, delayed, and his Apple TV adventure film, Fountain of Youth, being met with one of the iciest receptions of Ritchie’s career. With Rotten Tomatoes scores of 35% from critics and 38% from audiences, it’s the fourth lowest-rated film he’s been at the helm of, despite boasting a killer cast including John Krasinski, Natalie Portman, Eiza González, and Domhnall Gleeson.

That hasn’t stopped subscribers from flocking to the straight-to-streaming flick. Before the beginning of the New Year, Fountain of Youth once again soared up the Apple TV charts, topping out at fourth place and giving Mark Wahlberg‘s The Family Plan movies a run for their money. Since The Family Plan 2 delivered more family-friendly action comedy fun in November, both films have remained unshaken in the streaming rankings. However, neither they nor Fountain of Youth have been able to topple Brad Pitt‘s blockbuster racing film F1 since its arrival on the platform.

Fountain of Youth had a solid writer on board in James Vanderbilt, who most recently found success directing and penning the acclaimed Russell Crowe historical drama Nuremberg and co-writing both of Radio Silence’s Scream films. The treasure-hunting tale centers on estranged siblings Luke (Krasinski) and Charlotte Purdue (Portman), who reunite for a globetrotting journey to find the fabled Fountain of Youth. Now working as partners with a crack team of experts for their heist, they put their knowledge of history to the test to track down where the key to eternal life could be. The hunt spurs a life-changing journey full of danger and excitement as they aim to prove the Fountain is more than just a myth.

Guy Ritchie Has a Packed 2026 Slate Ahead

Ritchie will be ramping things back up in a big way in 2026, with not one, but two television series locked in plus a film, with In the Grey likely getting a release. First up on March 4 is Young Sherlock at Prime Video, an adaptation of the Young Sherlock Holmes novels by Andrew Lane. Starring Hero Fiennes Tiffin, it will follow a 19-year-old Holmes as an amateur detective coming into his own, with The Wheel of Time‘s Dónal Finn playing his boyhood friend turned longtime nemesis, James Moriarty. Afterward, The Gentlemen has been confirmed to return for Season 2 on Netflix sometime in the back half of next year, though an exact date hasn’t been set.

Fountain of Youth is now streaming on Apple TV. Stay tuned here at Collider for more on the biggest film and television hits throughout the coming year.