For more on its lead actor, check out Empire**’s handy guide to the Tom Hardyverse to date here. The relationship that bound them together was one of gruesome violence and crime, one that led to their downfall and imprisonment for life in 1969. This is also the film that convinced many people that Hardy would be a perfect James Bond. Identical twin gangsters Ronald and Reginald Kray terrorise London during the 1950s and 1960s. The suave and cool character helped Hardy standout among the star-studded cast, getting some of the film’s best moments. Legend dips into the dark underbelly of the swinging ‘60s, when sharp-suited gangsters warred for turf and control, and innocent people were caught in the middle of the conflict, although criminals like Ronald and Reginald Kray liked to claim they only went after the competition.Įmily Browning, David Thewlis, Christopher Eccleston, Taron Egerton, Tara Fitzgerald and Chazz Palminteri fill out the main cast for the film, with Legend to arriving September 9. In Nolan's unique heist film, Hardy plays Eames, the teams' 'counterfeiter'.
LA Confidential’s Brian Helgeland is piloting us through this crime arena. Their gang, the unimaginatively-named but viciously effective The Firm, took control of the shadowy underworld and carried out armed robberies, arson, racketeering, assaults and murder.
Click on it for a closer look.įor a time in the ‘50s and ‘60s, Ronnie and Reggie Kray ruled East London with fists, pistols and pure, simple intimidation. The film's stylish new poster, making its world premiere here, eschews its stars handsome visage (in either of his guises) and plumps instead for a smartly illustrative approach. Why play one role when you can play two? In the next demonstration of Tom Hardy’s formidable acting prowess, the Londoner plays not one but two Kray brothers in Legend.