MobLand Cast Reunites at S2 Premiere After Hardy Drama — SkimNews
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- David Glasser praised Tom Hardy as "the captain of our ship" at the MobLand Season 2 London premiere Thursday, reversing months of tension after the exec producer reportedly lost patience with Hardy's script-change requests and tardiness on set.
- Pierce Brosnan, Helen Mirren and Tom Hardy posed together on the black carpet outside the Odeon Luxe in Leicester Square before joining Guy Ritchie and Glasser on stage.
- Helen Mirren teased Season 2 as "Madder, badder, better" and "Chaotic, cool, funny. Frightening, funny," while Brosnan described the new season as "very mangled, very strange" with "frailties within these characters."
- Guy Ritchie turned 58 Thursday, with the cast and audience singing "Happy Birthday" before the director called his cast "magnificent" and "monsters of creativity."
- Guy Ritchie greenlit MobLand "on the spot" when Glasser and the Paramount+ team flew to his U.K. country house and pitched him over wine and lamb.
- Jez Butterworth was brought in just eight weeks before Season 1 production when Glasser, Ritchie and Hardy were still trying to "figure out what the show is" — a relationship that later deteriorated and triggered reports Hardy had been kicked off.
- Paramount+ officially confirmed last week that Hardy will return as fixer Harry Da Souza for Season 2 reshoots and Season 3, which begins shooting later this year.
Why it matters: Glasser's public embrace of Hardy, after months of 'creative differences' that nearly cost the star his role, resets the show's core trio ahead of Season 3 filming later this year. With Paramount+ officially confirming Hardy's return for both S2 reshoots and S3, the gangland drama's key creative relationships are intact — preserving a franchise anchored by his fixer character.
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