We are both playing slightly mentally-unbalanced men and they are having relationship and it was great fun. Tom Hardy is an amazing performer and a truly great bloke. I hope my material has survived but I don’t actually know yet, it could easily end up on the cutting room floor, because it is a supporting role, but the experience in making the film was truly, truly wonderful. It was written and directed by Brian Helgeland and he was very excited with the possibility of us improvising and thinking of things off the cuff while we were filming.' "I took the part with actually very few scripted lines, but I knew there was scope for it to grow. Talking to The National Student earlier this year, Taron Egerton said shooting the film, 'was fantastic very different to the way I’m used to working, or that I have worked.
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The movie co-stars Emily Browning, David Thewlis, Taron Egerton and Christopher Eccleston.
Confidential, Mystic River), it is the latest production from Working Title (The Theory of Everything), co-produced by French company StudioCanal and streaming giant Amazon Prime Instant Video. The latest offering from Academy Award winner Brian Helgeland (L.A. Legend promises to be a dark crime thriller, taking viewers into the secret history of the 1960s and the extraordinary events that secured the infamy of the Kray Twins. Of course, this is a story of the Kray’s whose penchant for violence means much of Legend could veer into nightmare territory. Well, dream no longer, Legend sees Hardy play both of the infamous Kray twins, Reggie and Ron in a true story of the rise and fall of London’s most notorious gangsters. The gold standard for such a dual performance is probably still Nicolas Cage playing Charlie and Donald Kaufman in Adaptation, and it is exciting to think that we may have something of that caliber on our hands here.īetween The Martian, The Walk, and Legend, October 2 nd can’t come soon enough.For many people a double-dose of Tom Hardy is a dream come true. Keep your eyes on this film, as we really haven’t seen anything quite like a performer of Hardy’s ability playing twin main characters in recent memory – especially not in a gangster film.
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The screenplay for Legend needs those same qualities so that Tom Hardy can take full advantage of what appears to be two full and juicy parts. Your overall opinions on these films may differ from mine, but one cannot object to the strength of these screenplays: they are tight, purposeful, and unique.
Confidential, all fantastic films with a crime element – so you know Helgeland is in his wheelhouse here. Helgeland has some fascinating writing credits to his name, including gems like Man on Fire, Mystic River, and L.A. What Legend needs to do to be successful is dramatize these events under the expertise of Helgeland (both writer and director for this film) and Hardy. A thirty-minute session on Wikipedia can tell you all that you would like to know about the Kray twins and their exploits. Like Black Mass (starring Johnny Depp as Whitey Bulger), Legend is a crime drama based on true events, so the importance of this film is not the narrative that it decides to tell. And, as we begin to learn more about these twins and their foray into the world of organized crime in 1960s London, we begin to fall hard for Legend.
They know that Tom Hardy is the draw here, and by making clear that he will be playing both twins from the get-go, they instantly nab any fans of Tom Hardy (which is essentially anyone who has ever seen any of his movies ever). The choice to introduce them one-at-a-time as being played by Tom Hardy is a masterstroke by the marketing team for this film. The trailer opens by introducing us to the Kray twins, Ronnie and Reggie. Tom Hardy stars as Tom Hardy’s twin brother.