First Look: Tom Hardy in ‘Legend’

First photo of Tom Hardy in Legend
Tom Hardy in 'Legend'

Tom Hardy’s going from a film in which he was the sole actor on screen (Locke) to a movie where audiences will be seeing two of him with Legend. The Working Title Films and StudioCanal dramatic film Legend just began shooting this week and already the first official photo has arrived featuring Hardy as both Reggie Kray and Ron Kray.


Brian Helgeland adapted John Pearson’s book The Profession of Violence: The Rise and Fall of the Kray Twins for the screen and is also directing the thriller. Emily Browning, David Thewlis, Christopher Eccleston, Chazz Palminteri, Tara Fitzgerald, and Taron Egerton plays supporting roles, with Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Christopher Clark, and Quentin Curtis producing.

Details on John Pearson’s The Profession of Violence Book:

Reggie and Ronald Kray ruled London’s gangland during the 1960s with a ruthlessness and viciousness that shocks even now. Building an empire of organised crime such as nobody has done before or since, the brothers swindled, intimidated, terrorised, extorted and brutally murdered. John Pearson explores the strange relationship that bound the twins together, and charts their gruesome career to their downfall and imprisonment for life in 1969.

Now expanded to include further extraordinary revelations, including the unusual alliance between the Kray twins and Lord Boothby – the Tory peer who won £40,000 in a libel settlement when he denied allegation of his association with the Krays – The Profession of Violence is a truly classic work. [courtesy of Bloomsbury Publishing]

-By Rebecca Murray

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