2026 has been quite the year for Tom Hardy fans, who were hit with a bout of controversy following the news that he had been fired from his Paramount Plus crime thriller show, MobLand. Guy Ritchie directs episodes of the show co-starring Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren. However, only a few weeks after the news of Hardy’s firing sent shock waves through the MobLand fandom, new reports came out indicating that the tensions between Hardy and creatives had been smoothed over, and that he would return for Season 3 of the series. MobLand Season 2 is scheduled to premiere on September 18. Now that Hardy has seemingly left the Marvel world behind after Venom: The Last Dance, fans everywhere are left wondering what’s coming next for one of the biggest action stars in the world.
Hardy has starred in plenty of noteworthy projects over the course of his career, but one of the most underrated came back in 2015 when he headlined the true crime thriller, Legend. Those who enjoyed Michael B. Jordan’s Oscar-winning dual performance in Sinners last year are sure to love Legend, as Hardy does the same thing by playing both identical twins, Ronald and Reginald Kray, a pair of gangsters who terrorized London in the 1960s. The official synopsis for the film, which also stars Taron Egerton and Emily Browning, reads as follows:
“Suave, charming and volatile, Reggie Kray and his unstable twin brother Ronnie start to leave their mark on the London underworld in the 1960s. Using violence to get what they want, the siblings orchestrate robberies and murders while running nightclubs and protection rackets. With police Detective Leonard ‘Nipper’ Read hot on their heels, the brothers continue their rapid rise to power and achieve tabloid notoriety.”
Collider Exclusive · Action Hero Quiz Which Action Hero Would Be Your Perfect Partner? Rambo · James Bond · Indiana Jones · John McClane · Ethan Hunt
Five legends. Five completely different ways of getting out alive — with style, with muscle, with charm, with luck, or with a plan so intricate it probably shouldn’t work. Ten questions will reveal which action hero was built to have your back.
🎖️Rambo
🍸James Bond
🏺Indiana Jones
🔧John McClane
🎭Ethan Hunt
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You’re dropped into a dangerous situation with no warning. What do you need most from a partner? The first few seconds tell you everything about who belongs beside you.
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You have to get somewhere dangerous, fast. How do you travel? How you get there is half the mission.
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You’re pinned down and outnumbered. What does your ideal partner do? This is when you find out what someone is really made of.
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The mission is paused. You have one evening to decompress. What does your partner suggest? Who someone is when the pressure drops is who they actually are.
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How do you prefer your partner to communicate mid-mission? Good communication is the difference between partners and a liability.
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Your enemy is powerful, well-resourced, and has the upper hand. How should your partner approach them? The approach to the enemy defines the partnership.
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Things go badly wrong and you’re captured. What do you trust your partner to do? Who someone is when you need them most is the only thing that matters.
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What does your ideal partner bring to the table that you couldn’t replace? A great partner fills the gap you didn’t know you had.
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Every partnership has a cost. Which of these can you live with? No one comes without baggage. The question is whether you can carry it together.
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It’s the final moment. Everything is on the line. What do you need from your partner right now? The last question is the most honest one.
Your Partner Has Been Assigned Your Perfect Partner Is…
Your answers have pointed to one action hero above all others. This is the person built to have your back — for better or considerably, spectacularly worse.
Rambo
Your partner doesn’t talk much, doesn’t need to, and will have assessed every threat in your immediate environment before you’ve finished your first sentence. John Rambo is not a man of plans or politics — he is a force of nature shaped by survival, loyalty, and a capacity for endurance that goes beyond anything training can produce. He will not leave you behind. He has never left anyone behind who deserved to come home. What you get with Rambo is the most capable, most quietly ferocious partner imaginable — one who has been through things that would have broken anyone else, and who chose to keep going anyway. You’ll never need to ask if he has your back. You’ll just know.
James Bond
Your partner will arrive perfectly dressed, perfectly briefed, and with a cover story so convincing it’ll take you a moment to remember what’s actually true. James Bond is the most professionally dangerous person in any room he enters — and the most disarmingly charming, which is the point. He operates in a world of layers, where nothing is what it appears and every advantage is used without apology. You’ll never be bored. You’ll occasionally be furious. But when it matters — when the mission is genuinely on the line and the margin for error has collapsed to nothing — Bond is exactly the partner you want. He has survived things that have no business being survivable. He does it with style. That is not nothing.
Indiana Jones
Your partner will know the history, the language, the cultural context, and exactly why the thing everyone else is ignoring is actually the most important thing in the room. Indiana Jones is brilliant, reckless, and occasionally impossible — but he is also one of the most resourceful, most genuinely knowledgeable partners you could find yourself beside. He approaches every situation with a scholar’s eye and a brawler’s instinct, which is an unusual combination and a remarkably effective one. He hates snakes and gets personally attached to objects of historical significance, both of which will slow you down at least once. It doesn’t matter. What Indy brings is irreplaceable — and the adventures you’ll have together will be the kind people write books about. Assuming you survive them.
John McClane
Your partner was not supposed to be here. He does not have the right equipment, the right information, or anything approaching the right odds. He has a sarcastic remark and an absolute refusal to accept that the situation is as bad as it looks. John McClane is the greatest accidental hero in the history of action cinema — a man whose superpower is stubbornness, whose contingency plan is improvisation, and whose capacity to absorb punishment and keep moving would be alarming if it weren’t so useful. He will complain the entire time. He will make it significantly more chaotic than it needed to be. And he will absolutely, unconditionally, without question come through when it counts. Yippee-ki-yay.
Ethan Hunt
Your partner has already run seventeen scenarios by the time you’ve finished reading the briefing, and the plan he’s settled on involves at least two things that should be physically impossible. Ethan Hunt operates at the absolute edge of human capability — technically, physically, and intellectually — and he brings the same relentless precision to protecting his partners that he brings to dismantling organisations that shouldn’t exist. He is not easy to know and he will never fully tell you everything. But he will carry the weight of the mission so completely, so absolutely, that your job is simply to trust him — and the remarkable thing is that trusting him always turns out to be the right call. The mission will be impossible. He will complete it anyway.
Is ‘Legend’ Available To Watch on Streaming in America?
Legend is not currently on any streaming platforms in America right now, but the film is available to rent or purchase for only a few dollars on VOD platforms like Prime Video and Apple TV. The best way to pitch Legend for someone who hasn’t heard of the film is Peaky Blinders meets Goodfellas. Legend is a British gangster epic akin to Peaky Blinders, albeit both are set in different periods of time. The film is also similar to Goodfellas, as the elements of organized crime and crime families are especially relevant.
Check out Legend on VOD platforms like Prime Video and stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of Tom Hardy’s future projects.
Release Date
September 9, 2015
Runtime
132 minutes
Director
Brian Helgeland
Producers
Brian Oliver, Olivier Courson, Amelia Granger, Ray Mallouk, Buddy Patrick, Tyler Thompson, Quentin Curtis, Peter Mallouk, Michael Bassick, Chris Clark, Ron Halpern, Kate Solomon, Christopher Woodrow, Tom Hardy, Tim Bevan, Liza Chasin, Eric Fellner