Tom Hardy and Pierce Brosnan play duelling gangsters in Guy Ritchie’s ‘Mobland’ trailer
Tom Hardy and Pierce Brosnan introduce viewers to the violent criminal underworld of MobLand, the new Paramount+ series from producer/director Guy Ritchie.
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The show, initially a prequel to series Ray Donovan but reworked into its own story, is a crime drama created by Ronan Bennett (Top Boy), with Ritchie producing and directing some of the episodes. The synopsis for the show describes Brosnan as “the head of an organised crime family, fighting for power within a global crime syndicate”.
In the trailer, Brosnan plays Conrad Harrigan, the patriarch of the Harrigan clan. “We shake the right hands, break the wrong ones” he says in the voice over, with a montage of Tom Hardy’s character Harry, a fixer for the family, inflicting violence on various targets.
He then introduces “the brains behind the charm”, Conrad’s wife Maeve, played by Dame Helen Mirren. Described as “the most dangerous of all”, the Oscar winner is shown saying “the second you lose trust in me, is the second this family turns to dust.
Throughout the clip, set to The Rolling Stones’ ‘Sympathy For The Devil’, Hardy is shown to be doing the Harrigan’s bidding, before Brosnan’s voiceover asks “So, are you with us or are you against us?”
The trailer ends with Harry’s wife Jan (Joanne Froggatt) asking: “what is this, the Taliban?”, to which Harry replies: “when Conrad gets going, I mean really fucking going, you’re going to fucking wish he was”.
MobLand comes to Paramount+ on March 30.
Recently, Tom Hardy excited in another trailer, playing someone on the right side of the law in Netflix crime thriller Havoc. Elsewhere, it was reported late last year that, while working on MobLand, the star offered to step in and pay wages owed to its crew.
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