Liked Tom Hardy in Peaky Blinders? Then get ready to see British actor take on not one, but two gritty crime roles in
Legend, the upcoming biopic of East London's most notorious organised crime perpetrators, The Kray Twins. Confused?
Watch the trailer below and see Hardy pull-off a Parent Trap-style double-act, suiting-up opposite himself as both Reggie and Ronnie Kray.
It's only been 25 years since we last saw the mobster duo-come-nightclub magnates take to the big screen. Cast your mind back to the early Nineties and you might remember a surprisingly credible performance from the unlikely lads who brought us this questionable video. But LA Confidential screenwriter Brian Helgeland decided the Kray Twins were finally due a reboot, bringing co-stars Emily Browning (Suckerpunch), David Thewlis (The Theory of Everything), Christopher Eccleston (Thor: The Dark World) and Taron Egerton (Kingsman: The Secret Service) along for the ride.
So what can we expect? Aside from a fleet of incredible vintage cars, an enviable wardrobe of slick suiting and a lesson in how to master an artfully Brylcreemed crop, Legend promises a unique insight into the crime rackets of pre-gentrified Hoxton and Bethnal Green, along with a dose of the turbulent and scandalous politics of the time. There were no gastropubs, gluten-free bakeries and plant-based bistrotheques in those days: instead, think hand-guns, dodgy West End clubs, protection rackets, punch-ups, underhand intimidation techniques and buses smashing into buildings. Oh, and a tragic love story thrown in for good measure in Reggie's constant pursuit of Frances Shea.
In short: plenty of uncomfortable viewing from the capital's infamously cold crooks, offset by a blisteringly cool soundtrack and the visual Mad Men-style brilliance of London in the swinging Sixties. This will be one to catch at the cinema when it's released later this year, and if the trailer is anything to go by, Legend is shaping-up to be a sharp-shooting gangster film that will sit comfortably between The Godfather and Resevoir Dogs in your BluRay collection.
Legend is released in cinemas nationwide on 11 September 2015.
