It’s a MobLand mess.
Tom Hardy has been making headlines over the previous week after reportedly being fired from the hit Paramount+ sequence (although a source who spoke to The Hollywood Reporter says the British star’s destiny is but to be determined).
Hardy has been clashing with producers, THR confirmed, together with govt producer Jez Butterworth and others at David Glasser’s 101 Studios, the manufacturing firm behind MobLand, which is filmed throughout the U.Ok.
A lot of this irresolution stems from the truth that the streamer has not but formally renewed the present for a 3rd season — one other supply near manufacturing tells THR that filming on season three, if greenlit, is tentatively scheduled to start in September this yr.
“He refused to come out of his trailer for hours at a time,” the supply says about Hardy’s on-set conduct on season two, which has spooked producers into rethinking Hardy’s future. The supply provides: “He kept the cast waiting, [which is] a power play. Keeping Pierce Brosnan, Helen Mirren and others waiting is career suicide, I would wager.”
In MobLand, co-directed by Man Ritchie, Hardy performs Harry Da Souza, a fixer for the Harrigan crime household led by patriarch Conrad (Brosnan) and matriarch Maeve (Mirren). Paddy Considine, Joanne Froggatt, Lara Pulver, Anson Boon, Jasmine Jobson, Mandeep Dhillon, Geoff Bell, Daniel Betts, Janet McTeer, Jordi Mollà and Toby Jones star in supporting roles.
It stays unclear precisely what retains Hardy confined to his MobLand trailer. A Puck News story reported that Hardy was additionally making an attempt to change dialogue and supply script notes to Butterworth and creator Ronan Bennett. Clashes with A-listers equivalent to Brosnan and Mirren, nevertheless, don’t assist Hardy’s repute for being infamously tough to work with.
The data supplied to The Hollywood Reporter concerning the MobLand state of affairs aligns with the testimony of Mad Max: Fury Highway director George Miller, who spoke to The Telegraph in 2024 about Hardy’s head-butting with co-star Charlize Theron: “[They’re] two very different performers.”
“Tom has a damage to him but also a brilliance that comes with it, and whatever was going on with him at the time, he had to be coaxed out of his trailer,” Miller stated. “Whereas Charlize was incredibly disciplined — a dancer by training, which told in the precision of her performance — and always the first one on set … I’m an optimist, so I saw their behavior as mirroring their characters, where they had to learn to cooperate in order to ensure mutual survival,” Miller continued. “There’s no excuse for it, and I think there’s a tendency in this business to use great performances as an excuse for other disruption that could be avoided.”
THR didn’t hear again from Hardy’s staff or a rep for Mirren when reaching out for remark. Brosnan is outwardly touring and unreachable. We’ve additionally requested for an replace from Paramount Tv Studios and 101 Studios. A launch date for season two of MobLand has not been introduced, however THR took a deep dive into what to do with Hardy’s character shifting ahead here.
Patrick Stewart can also be amongst these to have publicly mentioned working with a withdrawn Hardy, who has additionally starred in The Darkish Knight trilogy, Peaky Blinders and the Venom movies. “I didn’t have a single exciting scene to play, and the actor who portrayed the movie’s villain, Shinzon, was an odd, solitary young man from London. His name was Tom Hardy,” Stewart wrote in his 2023 memoir Making It So about making Star Trek: Nemesis (2002).
“Tom wouldn’t engage with any of us on a social level,” Stewart wrote. “Never said, ‘Good morning,’ never said, ‘Goodnight,’ and spent the hours he wasn’t needed on set in his trailer with his girlfriend.”
MobLand is produced in affiliation with MTV Leisure Studios and 101 Studios and is distributed by Paramount International Content material Distribution. MobLand is govt produced by Keith Cox, Nina L. Diaz, Man Ritchie, Glasser, Butterworth, showrunner Ronan Bennett, Kris Thykier, Ivan Atkinson, Hardy, Dean Baker, Anthony Byrne, Ron Burkle, David Hutkin and Bob Yari.
