Pierce Brosnan and Tom Hardy also star in the Paramount+ series premiering March 30.
The currently streaming Season 2 of 1923 may or may not be the grand finale for the Taylor Sheridan-produced drama, but Helen Mirren isn’t wasting any time lining up her next gig on Paramount+. In fact, she’s not even waiting for the April 13 Season 2 wrap-up.
MobLand, a new gangster series from director Guy Ritchie (The Gentlemen, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels) set to premiere March 30 with C&I cover star Pierce Brosnan playing Conrad Harrigan, patriarch of a crime family. As tough as Harrigan might be, however, even he admits that he might not be as much of a badass as his loyal wife, Maeve (Mirren)
“My wife’s the brains behind the charm,” Brosnan says of Mirren’s character in the trailer released Tuesday by Paramount+. “She holds me together. That makes her the most dangerous of all.”
Maeve doesn’t disagree: “The second you lose trust in me is the second this family turn to dust.”
Tom Hardy (The Revenant, Mad Max: Fury Road), who co-starred in Ritchie’s 2008 crime comedy RocknRoller, also has a lead role in MobLand as the Harrigan family’s fiercely loyal fixer, Harry Da Souza.
For Mirren, MobLand will mark the second time she has been cast as the significant other of a London gangster. In director John McKenzie’s classic 1980 thriller The Long Good Friday, she played the girlfriend of hardcase Harold Shand (the late, great Bob Hoskins), a crime boss who finds himself at odds with IRA terrorists. Chief among the latter: A tough customer played by Pierce Brosnan in his movie debut 15 years before he assumed the role of James Bond in GoldenEye (1995).
Of course, viewers know well that Mirren currently is co-starring with another actor who’s portrayed 007: Timothy Dalton, the kinky and cruel business tycoon who covets the Dutton Yellowstone Ranch in 1923.
Here is the official Paramount+ trailer for MobLand.
