RITCHIE'S LOCK STOCK WAS MISTAKEN FOR A COMEDY

His second feature film, caper comedy Snatch, failed to replicate the success of Lock, Stock despite featuring the likes of Brad Pitt.

The 38-year-old’s dire remake of the Sixties Lina Wertmüller hit Swept Away with wife Madonna was duly swept into the bargain bin.

Now it has been revealed that Lock, Stock was made only after it was initially mistaken for a comedy by producer Matthew Vaughan.

“Matthew thought he’d take a bad script to bed to help him fall asleep but loved Lock, Stock and stayed awake,” we are told. “He rang Ritchie and said, ‘This is just so funny!’ Unfortunately, Guy hadn’t seen it like that and it wasn’t supposed to have been a comedy at all."

Oh dear.