Tom Hardy = really, really busy right now

By Bridey heing

August 11, 2015

By Bridey heing

August 11, 2015

Tom Hardy has been having a pretty amazing year so far. His turn in Mad Max: Fury Road, and the totally wonderful press tour that followed, set him up for an awesome 2015, but it looks like he’s not resting on his laurels. In fact, he’s kind of crazy busy right now, with all kinds of awesome projects in the works that we are SUPER excited about.

Let’s start with the latest news: Hardy is set to produce an adaptation of the comic book 100 Bullets, a fittingly 100-issue-long series that wrapped up in 2009. The Hollywood Reporter describes the plot like so: “An enigmatic man named Agent Graves as he presents different people, for reasons unknown, with a gun, the identity of the person who ruined their lives . . . and a hundred rounds of untraceable ammunition.”

Sounds gritty, intense, and fascinating — just the kind of project we’d expect the man who became a household name thanks to his part in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight trilogy, would take on.

But that’s only the most recent project Hardy has joined. His BBC period drama Taboo was picked up by FX, and is expected to air on both sides of the Atlantic next year. The series is set in 1813, and Hardy plays the main character, James Keziah Delaney. Delaney is a business man who attempts to build a “trade and shipping empire” to rival the East India Company. But starring isn’t his only role: Hardy’s production company, Hardy Son & Baker, is producing the series.

And even that’s not all Hardy is up to at the BBC. He’s also signed on for the second season of BBC Two’s Peaky Blinders, the Cillian Murphy-starring period gang drama. Murphy and Hardy together again? Yes! Please!

Phew! That’s almost everything Hardy has taken on lately. But it’s not quite the end of the list. To cap off the awesome that is Tom Hardy’s slate this year, check out these trailers for his upcoming movies.

First up: The Revenant. Hardy stars opposite Leo DiCaprio in this Alejandro Iñárritu (the genius behind Birdman) adaptation of the Michael Punke novel of the same name. The trailer doesn’t give too much away, although Variety describes the film as an, “adventure of survival in the early 19th century American wilderness.”

And here’s the trailer for Legend, a London gang-land drama. Tom Hardy plays both of the Kray brothers, the “gangster prince of the East End” Reggie and “one man mob” Ronnie. Cannot. Wait.