Tom Hardy and Ridley Scott will produce a series adapted from the novels of Dickens with the showrunner of Peaky Blinders

Cinema 5 December, 2017

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It’s official and announced today, Steven Knight, the showrunner of Peaky Blinders and Taboo is interested in adapting the novels of Charles Dickens for the BBC. And the guy knows how to surround himself, as he renews his collaboration with Tom Hardy and Ridley Scott !

Steven Knight may not be the showrunner is the most important in England at this time (look not, whether we like it or not, this is Steven Moffat), but it is all the same a showrunner that account, as evidenced by the success of his series Peaky Blinders (in which plays, like, so… Tom Hardy), who will have at least the right to one more season after season 4 is being broadcast.

Collaborator for a very long time for the BBC, writer of countless feature films, he is also the showrunner of Taboo, ambitious series was written and produced in close collaboration with nothing less than Tom Hardy (again) also as the main actor. Scott Free, the home of the company of Ridley Scott was also of the party.

Thou hast seen when Taboo?

Well, as we said, according to the Hollywood Reporter, the combo winner Knight-Hardy gives cover, réinvite Ridley Scott to the table, and plans to launch in the adaptation of the novels the classics of Charles Dickens , which looks for the less ambitious. We don’t necessarily realize it, but Charles Dickens is one of the popular authors the most revered and the most over-adapted by the anglo-saxon world. Imagine basically that France 2 decided to adapt Alexander Dumas (The Three Musketeers, The count of Monte Cristo), but with a big hollywood star on the screen, a real budget and competent people behind the scenes.

Final elements revealed by the Hollywood Reporter, the series will be an anthology. Each novel will be adapted into three one-hour episodes. The first to enter the track ? A tale of Christmas with Ebenezer Scrooge, the old miser visited by the ghosts of Christmas. As to the question that burns the lips (drink a little water, that must hurt), nothing has been communicated about the possibility of a role of Tom Hardy. But hey, all that seems to us to be sewn with white thread. Tom Hardy has been present on the screen in all the major projects of Steven Knight up to here (including the superb Locke), a priori it would not therefore be surprising that this is the case again…

Tom Hardy, who seems content to be there