Guy Ritchie to remake The Wild Geese

As he finishes post-production work on Sherlock Holmes, Guy Ritchie is preparing his next project – a remake of The Wild Geese. This was the 1978 film that saw a band of mercenaries, including Richard Burton, Richard Harris and Roger Moore, sent into Central Africa by a merchant banker to try and overthrow a malign dictator.

As a source told the Daily Telegraph, "It will be Guy's biggest film to date with a budget that will buy him some real star names."

Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes, which stars Robert Downey Jnr as the famous detective, and Jude Law as his sidekick Dr Watson, is to be released later this year. Arthur Conan Doyle's tales of Victorian crime mystery have recently returned to favour - Naxos AudioBooks are releasing a 60 CD box collection, The Complete Sherlock Holmes later this month. According to Downey Jnr, "The reinvention is actually a return to the idiosyncrasies that Conan Doyle had in his books – details that people hadn't really paid much attention to."

After varying disappointments since he made a name for himself with Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch, Ritchie made something of return to form with RocknRolla. Meanwhile his private life, if you could call it that, has also gone well since he divorced Madonna late last year. While she has moved in with 22-year-old Brazilian lover Jesus Luz, Ritchie has been stepping out with women of his own age. There have been rumours linking him to Jemima Khan, and this week he was seen having supper in Notting Hill with supermodel Elle Macpherson. ·