Hardy is back on the flickering box with a new series at FX called Taboo that he executive produced himself along with Ridley Scott, not to mention coming up with the original story along with his father Chips Hardy and Locke writer Steven Knight.
Danish director Kristoffer Nyholm, best known for directing the original Scandinavian version of The Killing before it was imported and adapted for American audiences on AMC and Netflix, is at the helm of this gritty series.
In Taboo, Tom Hardy plays James Keziah Delaney, a rogue adventurer who returns to London in 1814 after spending 10 years in Africa, only to discover that he has been left a mysterious legacy by his father, who has been killed. Delaney refuses to sell his family’s business to the East India Company, and opts to build his own trading and shipping empire instead, which thrusts him into the middle of the War of 1812, between the U.S. and Britain. And it looks like there’s plenty of people who want him to fail.
Taboo follows James Keziah Delaney, a man who has been to the ends of the earth and come back irrevocably changed. Believed to be long dead, he returns home to London from Africa in 1814 to inherit what is left of his father’s shipping empire and rebuild a life for himself. But when his father’s legacy is revealed to be a poisoned chalice and enemies lurk in every dark corner, James must navigate increasingly complex territories to avoid his own death sentence. Encircled by conspiracy, murder, and betrayal – a dark family mystery unfolds in an explosively colourful tale of love and treachery.
The series doesn’t have a release date yet, but is expected to air sometime in 2017.
Too bad it's just a miniseries, but I suppose it's not feasible to tie down someone like Hardy to a project spanning several seasons. Still no premiere date?
Can't wait, only two weeks left for some sweet, sweet Hardy goodness
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It is very promising indeed. Gritty tone, proper characterization involved (it's not a mere shallow stylistic work), solid atmosphere and acting, with Hardy being an absolute badass.
It's perhaps slightly tamer than I imagined (the trailer was nuts), but it's only the beginning and there's all the time to unleash depravity, madness and beautiful creepy hallucinations. I'm already hooked as well.
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I still remember his wonderfully disgusting role in The Take tv mini series 
