Tom Hardy is Both Kray Twins in Legend Trailer
Tom Hardy does double duty as both Kray Twins in the two-fisted trailer for Legend.
“Just running scared, each place we go. So afraid that he might show,” sings Roy Orbison in the trailer for Legend, the new gangster movie about British gangsters Reggie Kray and his twin Ronnie Kray, reflecting the fears of the London underworld in the sixties. The Kray brothers were notoriously scary.
Legend was directed by Brian Helgeland, who helmed the modern noir thriller LA Confidential. Tom Hardy will star as both Reggie and Ronnie in the movie about the legendary mob twins. An earlier version of the Krays' story, Peter Medak’s 1990 film The Krays, starred the Kemp brothers from Spandau Ballet.
According to the official synopsis on YouTube, “From Academy Award winner Brian Helgeland comes the true story of the rise and fall of London’s most notorious gangsters, Reggie and Ron Kray, both portrayed by Tom Hardy in an amazing double performance. Legend is a classic crime thriller taking us into the secret history of the 1960s and the extraordinary events that secured the infamy of the Kray Twins. In cinemas September 11.”
Legend is based on John Pearson's book The Profession of Violence. The movie follows the rise and fall of mob twins Ronnie and Reggie Kray who had a stranglehold on the London underworld in the 1950s and 1960s.
The Krays were tough. Reggie almost killed his brother in a fight when they were eight years old. After that they decided to beat up everyone else in London. They both became boxers and neither lost a match. Ever. They got drafted. Stayed for a little bit and walked out. When the C.O. tried to stop them, the Kray twins beat him up. When the cops tried so serve AWOL papers on the twins the next morning, they beat the shit out of them. All of them.
Ron and Reg’s crew, The Firm, organized crime in England in the 50s and 60s. The Krays ran the crime rackets in London's East End until they got pinched for popping rival mobsters George Cornell and Jack 'The Hat' McVitie in 1969 and were sent up for life. A bad ticker got Ronnie in 1995. Reggie died in 2000, eight weeks after he was granted release to deal with cancer.
Legend also stars Emily Browning, David Thewlis, Christopher Eccleston, Taron Egerton, Tara Fitzgerald and Chazz Palminteri.
Legend hits theaters on September 11.