If you say the words ‘Tom Hardy mob thriller’ most of the UK’s TV-watching 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.
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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 here for the series:
The show is called MobLand, and sees Pierce Brosnan as Conrad, the head of a crime family, with Helen Mirren as his wife Maeve.
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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.”
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Another said: “Can’t wait”, while a third replied on Twitter saying: “All-star cast! "Mob Land" is going to be EPIC!”
The show was supposedly originally intended as a spin-off to the series Ray Donovan called The Donovans but was instead adapted into a fully original series.
The series follows Ritchie’s successful foray into TV with Netflix’s The Gentlemen.
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His only prior involvement in TV had been Lock, Stock… making this his first fully original TV show.
The Gentlemen, the TV spin-off of his original film starring Theo James and Kaya Scodelario, was a massive hit on Netflix.
The series was such a success that a season two was ordered.
When it comes to a release date however, there is no sign of one, as James revealed they are yet to film the series.
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Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter earlier this year James said: "We are starting that in the spring.
"I really wanted to — and so did [creator] Guy [Ritchie] — make sure that we evolve the show, and that is the intention. As fun as the first season was, if you do the exact same thing again, it may not be as fun, essentially. You want to be able to dive a little bit deeper in terms of character."
Topics: Tom Hardy, Guy Ritchie, TV and Film, TV
Michael Slavin