It’s been a few years since the hit crime drama Ray Donovan ended its run, and Paramount+ is getting ready to invite us back into this universe. Guy Ritchie will direct the offshoot series The Donovans, written by the Top Boy creator Ronan Bennett.
The Donovans will center on a family of London’s most elite fixers, who are working with some of the most powerful clients in Europe. Their business is as risky as it gets, forcing them to form odd alliances and expect betrayal around every corner.
Chris McCarthy, president of Showtime/MTV Entertainment Studios, described the director and executive producer Guy Richie and writer Ronan Bennett as the ideal dream team to create a new global hit franchise with The Donovans.
“Guy’s riveting and stylish directorial approach combined with Ronan’s captivating and brutally authentic writing will transfix audiences into a wild and twisted world full of new adventures,” said McCarthy in a statement.
This spin-off series will be set in the same universe as Ray Donovan, Showtime’s crime drama starring Liev Schreiber as a professional fixer, who can make anyone’s problems disappear. The original series was mostly set in Los Angeles and New York, and its story concluded with the feature-length Ray Donovan: The Movie in 2022.
