Guy Ritchie has put the geezer in the freezer. The once and future king of bantering bad boys is branching out this month with a foray into rollicking pulp adventure. He’s going from Vinnie Jones to Indiana Jones with new film Fountain of Youth – a cheery riff on Raiders of the Lost Ark, National Treasure and the Uncharted video games, starring Natalie Portman and John Krasinski as sibling explorers on the globe-hopping trail of the secret to eternal life.
“I found myself feeling like if I wasn’t too careful, I was ending up in a comedy-action-gangster genre, of which, of course, I’m comfortable and enjoy,” Ritchie told Entertainment Weekly. “But at some point, I thought, you have to spread your wings as a writer-director.”
