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.
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.
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!”
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 Gentleman.
His only prior involvement in TV had been Lock, Stock… making this his first fully original TV show.
More to follow.