Guy Ritchie will create his first-ever original TV series for Hardy If you say the words ‘Tom Hardy mob thriller’ most of the UK’s TV-watching watching…
Guy Ritchie will create his first-ever original TV series for Hardy
If you say the words ‘Tom Hardy mob thriller’, most of the UK’s TV-watching community are already in.
If you add ‘created by Guy Ritchie with one of the craziest casts of recent times’ to that, there is almost no one who wouldn’t want to watch.
The new gangster series meets of all of the above criteria, with Tom Hardy joined in by the cast by Helen Mirren, Paddy Considine, and Pierce Brosnan.
Add to that Downton Abbey alumnus Joanne Froggatt, Sherlock scene-stealer Lara Pulver, and Green Street star Geoff Bell, and you have all the right ingredients for an incredible show.
Check out the trailer for the series here:
The show is called MobLand, and sees Pierce Brosnan as Conrad, the head of a crime family, with Helen Mirren as his wife Maeve.
Hardy plays his long-time ‘fixer’, and the trailer hints at a brewing gang war that Hardy’s character will find himself in the centre of, with his being to protect the family ‘at all costs’.
When the casting announcement was made, Chris McCarthy, Paramount Global co-CEO, said of the casting: “Tom Hardy, Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren are masters at their craft and we are honoured to have them lead the cast for Guy Ritchie’s new global, original series.
“Guy, Jez Butterworth and Ronan Bennett’s creative prowess, coupled with these gifted actors, is the perfect recipe for what we believe will be the next brand-defining series for Showtime on Paramount Plus.”
Fans are as hyped for the series as you can imagine, with one commenting on the trailer on YouTube to say: “This show with Tom Hardy and Pierce Brosnan is Going to be wild.”
Another said: “Can’t wait”, while a third replied on Twitter saying: “All-star cast! “Mob Land” is going to be EPIC!”