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Actor Martin Delaney has stepped into the shoes of a tech visionary in the new film “The Man Who Saved the Internet With a Sunflower.”

Delaney portrays Robert Ryan, the founder of Ascend Communications who played a crucial role in the early days of the internet. The film has already garnered critical acclaim, recently winning the Competition Features Audience Award at the Dances With Films festival.

The film chronicles Ryan’s journey from humble beginnings to becoming a key player in Silicon Valley during the 1980s and ’90s. It focuses on Ryan’s development of the “pizza box” modem, which revolutionized internet access by offering faster speeds at half the price of competitors. This innovation allowed struggling internet service providers to stay afloat and ultimately led to Ascend’s meteoric rise in the tech industry, culminating in its sale to Lucent Technologies for $24 billion in 1999.

“I was intrigued by Rob’s story,...

Minecraft's charming End Poem can now be used by anyone for free. Millions of players have experienced the nearly 10-minute-long official ending of Minecraft, and although fans were initially conflicted by its quirky content, it has become one of the most widely loved aspects of Mojang's esteemed sandbox title. Defeating the game's menacing Ender Dragon presents the player with a lengthy dialogue between two nameless entities who discuss the nature of the universe and directly address the player, who is reading their thoughts.

While players are currently enjoying the new Avatar Legends Minecraft Dlc, the community has just received some surprising news. End Poem author Julian Gough has dedicated the writing to the public domain (via Nintendo Life). Gough announced the news in a 10,000-word anecdote in which he shares his unfavorable experiences with Mojang and with his former friend, creator of Minecraft Markus Persson. His relationship with the...

“Emancipation” producer Joey McFarland has issued an apology after bringing a photograph of a former slave to the movie’s premiere.

The man, who was known as “Whipped Peter”, served as much of the inspiration for the film, starring Will Smith.

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During a red carpet interview with Variety at the premiere, McFarland said, “I have the photo. This is the original photograph from 1863. I wanted a piece of Peter to be here tonight.”

Taking to Instagram to address criticism he received for bringing the photo, McFarland wrote, “I wholeheartedly apologize to everyone I have offended by bringing a photograph of Peter to the ‘Emancipation’ premiere. My intent was to honor this remarkable man and to remind the general public that his image not only brought about change in 1863 but still resonates and promotes change today.

“Emancipation” producer Joey McFarland apologized Sunday for bringing a graphic photo of the enslaved laborer who inspired the film to the Los Angeles premiere last week.

“I wholeheartedly apologize to everyone I have offended by bringing a photograph of Peter to the ‘Emancipation’ premiere,” McFarland wrote in a statement posted on his Instagram. “My intent was to honor this remarkable man and to remind the general public that his image not only brought about change in 1863 but still resonates and promotes change today.”

The producer was criticized for bringing the image, known as “Whipped Peter,” to the premiere after telling Variety in a red carpet interview that he “wanted a piece of Peter to be here tonight.” The 1863 photo, which depicts the abused back of an enslaved laborer named Gordon and contributed to the growing public sentiment to end enslavement, was the jumping off point for “Emancipation,” which takes inspiration...

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Joey McFarland has apologized after sparking controversy for walking the red carpet at the Emancipation premiere with the original photo of an enslaved man known as Peter that inspired the film.

“I wholeheartedly apologize to everyone I have offended by bringing a photograph of Peter to the Emancipation premiere,” the Oscar-nominated producer said in an Instagram post Sunday. “My intent was to honor this remarkable man and to remind the general public that his image not only brought about change in 1863, but still resonates and promotes change today.”

The photograph shows a man named Peter, who escaped enslavement, with scars on his back from being repeatedly whipped. The photo has been known both as “Whipped Peter” and “The Scourged Back.”

“After uncovering Peter’s origin story with help from diligent historians, I spent the last few years working with the Emancipation creative team...

“Emancipation” producer Joey McFarland has apologized after facing criticism for bringing a photograph of the enslaved man known as “Whipped Peter,” which served as an inspiration for the film, to the Los Angeles premiere.

“I wholeheartedly apologize to everyone I have offended by bringing a photograph of Peter to the ‘Emancipation’ premiere,” McFarland wrote in a statement on his Instagram posted Sunday afternoon. “My intent was to honor this remarkable man and to remind the general public that his image not only brought about change in 1863 but still resonates and promotes change today.”

McFarland was met with widespread criticism after revealing that he was carrying the original 1863 photograph of “Whipped Peter,” whose real name was Gordon, while speaking with Variety at the film’s premiere. Photographed when being fit for a uniform to join the Union army, the image of the scars on Gordon’s back were widely circulated at the time,...

James Delaney is an accomplished Minecraft builder who's utilized his talents on a myriad of projects, both in and outside the game. Delaney is a founder of the designer collective BlockWorks, which makes Minecraft builds for educational, marketing, and media purposes working with companies across the world, and is also a chairperson for the nonprofit organization Block by Block. His storied history with the game has now led him to be a spokesman for the book Minecraft Master Builds, a collection highlighting the limitless potential of the game and those who play it.

Any fan of the game knows that there's no shortage of impressive in-game Minecraft builds - it's part of the title's beauty, allowing every player endless creative possibilities. In the past, Delaney's BlockWorks collective has designed projects like the Uncensored Library, a collaboration with Reporters Without Borders to highlight press censorship, and a build of 1700s Exeter...

Here’s another interview in Nerdly’s socially distanced series of chats with filmmakers and performers as part of the Nerdly Out Loud podcast for Nerdly.co.uk. This time Kevin sits down with actor Martin Delaney to discuss the short film Officer Down, his career, the pandemic, Renford Rejects and more!

Set amid a divided country, with fear and civil unrest at it’s peak, Officer Down tells the story of police officer Alex Trent, who becomes trapped in a rundown building during a riot and finds himself facing off with the very people he was sent to help arrest. With allegiances unclear and enemies not who they seem, Alex must decide who to trust and find his strength in order to survive.

Check out the interview below and read our review of Officer Down right here.

Stars: Martin Delaney, Josef Altin, Ben Turner | Written by Tommy Draper, Simon Pearce | Directed by Simon Pearce

Alex Trent (Martin Delaney) is a young British Police Officer and is part of a task force that has been sent into a rundown building smack dab in the middle of Civil Riots that are dividing our fair nation. The mission is a man, they are there to capture Elijah (Ben Turner) but shortly after arriving Trent is chased down and separated from the team. Soon after he bumps into Amir (Josef Altin) who on of the face of things wants to help but can Trent put aside his personal prejudice and trust Amir or is Amir exactly the sort of person he was sent in to get.

Officer Down is a perfect 18-minute snapshot of the British social conscious. Whether it’s how people are being portrayed in mass media or a...

Every week, IndieWire asks a select handful of TV critics two questions and publishes the results on Tuesday. (The answer to the second, “What is the best show currently on TV?” can be found at the end of this post.)

This week’s question: What is the best new opening title sequence for the 2016-2017 TV season?

Todd VanDerWerff (@tvoti), Vox

I’m kind of into the way “The Handmaid’s Tale” starts every episode with ambient sound and those big, block letters in the title. And I’d be lying if I said the week “The Leftovers” was randomly scored to the “Perfect Strangers” theme song wasn’t an absolute delight. Also, I’m digging the new “Twin Peaks” credits. But for great new title sequences, the one for “Stranger Things” has to take the cake. That music! That neon! That minimalism! I had my quibbles with “Stranger Things...

Call them the Dp disruptors: “Legion,” “Stranger Things,” “Westworld,” “The Handmaid’s Tale,” and “Taboo.” It’s one thing to be for cinematography to be cinematic, but quite another to provoke. Here’s a look at the cinematography that was used to explore the impacts of tyranny and hate, of societies turned upside down and against humanity.

“Legion”

After re-imagining “Fargo” as a nightmarish crime anthology, Noah Hawley stripped the superhero iconography out of Marvel’s “Legion” by concentrating on schizophrenia and paranoia. Dan Stevens’ troubled mutant, David Haller, proves to be an unreliable narrator, unable to grasp the difference between reality and imagination, who meets the girl of his dreams (Rachel Keller) in a mental hospital and discovers that his psychological instability is a result of special telepathic power.

Cinematographer Dana Gonzales (“Fargo”) liked a story that demanded a shift from naturalistic to heightened. “And there’s a love...

Vulture WatchWill James Delaney prevail against his enemies? Has the Taboo TV show been cancelled or renewed for a second season on FX? The television vulture is watching all the latest cancellation and renewal news, so this page is the place to track the status of Taboo season two. Bookmark it, or subscribe for the latest updates. Remember, the television vulture is watching your shows. Are you? What's This TV Show About?Airing on the cable channel, Taboo follows adventurer James Keziah Delaney (Tom Hardy). In 1814, he returns to London after spending 10 years in Africa. Upon his arrival, he finds that his father has died. Now, James is line to inherit what is left of the family shipping empire. This fact unnerves his half‐sister Zilpha (Oona Chaplin), her husband Thorne Geary (Jefferson Hall), and the chair of the mighty East India Company, Sir Stuart Strange (Jonathan Pryce). Taboo...

Louisa Mellor May 19, 2017

Taboo creator Steven Knight updates us on the progress of Taboo's second series, which he's writing at the moment...

BBC One officially confirmed renewal of Taboo, its wild, Gothic melodrama starring Tom Hardy, in March of this year. Co-created and written by Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight, the first series told the story of Hardy's enigmatic James Delaney, a man with a mysterious past and a fearsome reputation returning to Regency London after a decade's absence.

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Speaking to Knight today about series four of Peaky Blinders, which began filming in March, he told us that he is currently writing series two of Taboo. "I'm just doing it now. I'm trying to write it as quickly as I can".

The earliest we...

Let’s take a few minutes to reflect on what could have been.

After two years of speculation, it seems like the question of who will be the seventh actor to take on the iconic role in the long-running film series will have to go on the back burner. Last Monday, the New York Post gossip section published an article citing multiple sources that reported that current Bond actor Daniel Craig is in the final stages of negotiating a return to his most iconic role. If true, it would mark a pretty serious change of tune for Craig, who, in an oft quoted Time Out interview from October 2015, responded to the question of his returning to do another Bond movie thusly: “I’d rather break this glass and slash my wrists. No, not at the moment. Not at all. That’s fine. I’m over it at the moment. We’re done. All...

James Delaney (Tom Hardy) is a man you’d want to stay far, far way from. He knows he’s vile and isn’t right in the head, but sometimes he’s a loon that makes more sense than a viewer would expect. Delaney is a tough, violent, and nasty man, but sometimes no nastier than the world he […]

The post ‘Taboo’ Season 2 Ordered By BBC and FX appeared first on /Film.

Brilliance is rewarded.

Taboo, the drama series executive produced by and starring Tom Hardy, who also co-created the series alongside Steven Knight and Chips Hardy, has been renewed for a second season by FX and BBC One.

The first season was among the highest-rated new cable dramas of the past year in the U.S.

“Taboo’s first season was exceptional and its success on FX is testament to the creative excellence and dedication of the producers, cast and crew,” said Eric Schrier, President of Original Programming, FX Networks and FX Productions.

“We are proud to again join BBC One and Sonar Entertainment in partnering with Scott Free London and Hardy Son & Baker on the second season and look forward to working again with the great Tom Hardy, Steven Knight, Ridley Scott, Chips Hardy and everyone who makes Taboo so remarkable.”

Across all linear and non-linear platforms, the first season...

Taboo, the drama series starring and executive produced by Tom Hardy, has been renewed for a second season by the BBC and FX.

The eight-episode first series was broadcast earlier this year on BBC One in the UK and FX in the Us.

Set in 1814, Hardy stars in the series as a man who, believed long dead, returns home from Africa to London to inherit the remnants of his father’s shipping empire. The cast also included Oona Chaplin, Jonathan Pryce and David Hayman.

Taboo was created by Steven Knight (Peaky Blinders) with Tom Hardy and Chips Hardy. Season one was produced by Hardy, Son & Baker and Scott Free.

Ridley Scott was an executive producer under his banner Scott Free Films and will reprise his role for the second series.

Anders Engström and Kristoffer Nyholm were directors on the first series, which also sold...

Louisa Mellor Feb 25, 2017

Even if Taboo’s finale makes barely a lick of sense, it certainly provides a spectacle…

This review contains spoilers.

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Cheerio to James Delaney, currently sailing with a ragtag crew to Portugal to liaise with an American spy. Why he’s doing that is anybody’s guess. Why James Delaney has done any of this is anybody’s guess.

Prior to the shoot-out, this finale was representative of the series as a whole. A half-dead Delaney stalked around London taking care of business by having gnomic, sometimes violent conversations with friends and foe, rarely allowing us the privilege of knowing whatever the hell was going on. The episode was designed to show off our lead as a strategic master of Sherlockian guile.

(Major spoilers ahead for the seventh episode of the FX limited series “Taboo.”) “Taboo” has been, for long stretches, infuriating for it’s seemingly inexplicable weirdness. James Delaney (Tom Hardy) has been an absolutely crazy person since the start, and the show was slyly holding back why. For a lot of viewers it’s been too much to bear as Hardy’s madman — who, as Lorna Bow (Jessie Buckley) noted a few weeks back, is someone we’re really incapable of truly knowing — has navigated this bleak world of 1814 London. It was simply Delaney’s animalistic drive that kept me watching.

East India thinks they've won, but it's James Delaney who appears to have the upper hand, as always.

There were so many Huge reveals in Taboo Season 1 Episode 7 that I barely know where to start, so let's get right to it.

Helga was so convinced that Delaney killed poor Winter that she dimed out Delaney to East India, but of course she's wrong.

I don't think anyone out there really thought Delaney did the deed, but it's good to know that it was the evil East India responsible for it.

And it was heartbreaking to see Winter join the cast of dead spirits that haunt Delaney: poor guy.

Lorna is really feeling Delaney now, but he seems resigned to the fact that he is damned, and doesn't want to take anyone else with him.

Lorna: I know you didn't do it.

Delaney: And how would you know that? [grunt] I very well may have.

Hearing Tom Hardy speak about James Delaney doesn’t feel that far removed from watching the Oscar-nominated actor play the enigmatic lead of FX’s drama.

“He’s silent on the outside because inside, he’s got a very, very busy head, which is kind of terrifying for him in some aspects,” Hardy recently told IndieWire at Pasadena’s Langham Huntington Hotel. “And [his thoughts are] unprocessed. He’s kind of figuring it out.”

Hardy, who created “Taboo” with Chips Hardy (his father) and Steven Knight, is doing the same. The thoughts in his head are being forced out, and processing them is half the fun.

Hardy knows the character inside and out, but there are so many elements thrown into the mix — Hardy cites Bill Sikes from “Oliver Twist,” Marlow from Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness,” Hannibal Lecter, “an irascible kind of Duke” and “maybe even a werwolf!” in his ever-growing...

Louisa Mellor Feb 18, 2017

Taboo’s lead character remains the frustrating blank space at the centre of an otherwise appealing show…

This review contains spoilers.

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For weeks I’ve waited to see James Delaney on the back foot - to watch him put under enough pressure that he finally cracks and reveals the human being inside that inscrutable outer shell. Goodbye to that hope. If twelve hours of torture in the Tower of London doesn’t break Delaney, nothing will. Cuts and bruises aside, he remained as in-control and unreadable in the torturer’s chair as he’s been since he landed in London. In-control, unreadable and sadly, dull.

Taboo’s lead is its weakest link. Somehow under and over-written at the same time, Delaney is all over the place. Are we supposed to love him? Hate him? Love to hate him? Aiming for moral complexity,...

In the new FX miniseries “Taboo,” Tom Hardy does a whole lot of grunting. A new supercut compiles all 72 of the actor’s grunts in the first five episodes of the show. Watch the clip below.

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The eight-part series is set in 1814 London, when Great Britain and the United States negotiated an extended boundary between the U.S. and Canada. The story centers around James Delaney (Hardy), who, after spending 12 years in Africa, returns to London for his father’s funeral. One of his father’s few remaining assets is an island, which, before James showed up, was to be sold to the East India Company, which represents the British monarchy and wants to control trading routes on both coasts of America. But James now refuses to sell the island, and ultimately builds his own shipping empire.

I never thought I'd see it, but by the end of this episode James Delaney was a hot mess!

A terrible family secret was revealed in Taboo Season 1 Episode 6, which set forth a series of events that shook Delaney to his core and, of course, caused carnage to follow. 

Add to that the Honorable East India basically declaring war on Delaney, and we have a great setup to the final 2 episodes. Oh, and did I mention we had not one but Two shocking deaths? This one was Very dark, folks.

I like that Brace finally had enough, and told Delaney the real deal about his cray cray mum. Brace definitely has a yard of guts to stand up to the beast, or maybe he just doesn't care anymore. 

Brace is usually used for comic relief, but he is excellent in this scene, finally telling Delaney the secret that he probably...

Louisa Mellor Feb 11, 2017

Taboo’s latest episode finds James Delaney at his lowest ebb…

This review contains spoilers.

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Making enemies of the most powerful bastards in the land is finally taking its on the devil James Delaney. Episode six left our anti-hero at his lowest ebb. He’s lost his ship, been betrayed, was almost drowned by the ghost of his mother and now looks to have been framed for murder.

I say framed because if Delaney really did kill Winter—the little mudlark whose death warrant was signed the moment she started talking starry-eyed of her dream of escaping to America—he’d have to resign as this show’s lead. We’re on board with the sister-shagging and villain-disembowelling, but drunkenly murdering a poor kid? They’d have to change the name from Taboo to Pure Evil.

Why, oh why don't these people get it by now? You do Not f*ck with James Delaney. Not. Ever.

There were quite a few shocks on Taboo Season 1 Episode 5, including the opening scene. We got want we wanted, sort of: a beautifully shot duel scene, but with a twist.

I Really wanted to see Thorne bite it, but alas, we'll have to wait until another day.

As satisfying as it would have been to see Delaney waste Thorne, it is actually more in keeping with the theme of the show to have Delaney spare him.

My apologies - that was an excellent shot. I can only assume that your second is a Company man, since he failed to load a ball in your pistol. It would appear that my life is more precious than yours. Good day.

Delaney [to Thorne] Permalink: My apologies - that was an excellent shot. I can...

Louisa Mellor Feb 6, 2017

Taboo reveals its true purpose in episode five, which sees things hot up considerably…

This review contains spoilers.

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Unlike alternative methods of dispatching one’s enemy in nineteenth century England—your disembowelling and your throat slitting—duelling turns out to involve a surprising amount of red tape. A doctor, a lawyer and an officiator must be present, each dueller has to bring a buddy, start from an allotted spot and, after a polite exchange of bullets, cease firing. There’d be less bureaucracy involved in taking out a tracker mortgage. Whether rowing through pestilential fog to a between-parishes island owned by a gypsy in a top hat is also regulation or merely an...

Haunting, seductive, cunning and bereft of overt emotions, Oona Chaplin brings a deliciously deep dive of innate talent to her role as a seemingly contended well-to-do English lady, Zilpha Geary, on FX’s collaborative (partnered with BBC and Sonar), evocative and gritty period drama Taboo. Chaplin — the granddaughter of British silent film star Charlie Chaplin — co-stars with Tom Hardy, who is cast as James Delaney and serves as executive producer. Nothing is at is seems in this dark period drama. The taboo twist is married Zilpha and her half-brother Delaney are revealed to be former lovers who are drawn to...read more...

The gauntlet has been thrown down: will Delaney accept? What the hell do you think?

In the action packed Taboo Season 1 Episode 4, the big challenge of a duel from that uber dick Thorne was the crescendo, but we'll have to wait a week to see if Delaney takes the bait.

I challenge James Delaney to a duel. At dawn. To the death. Do you accept? Do You Accept?

Thorne Permalink: I challenge James Delaney to a duel. At dawn. To the death. Do you accept? Do You Accept? Added: January 29, 2017

I expect he will, and we will have a magnificently shot duel scene at dawn, in a fog shrouded field, in beautiful slow motion. But this isn't a lock by any means.

Given how the Americans have kindly offered to waste Thorne, Delaney might just take them up on it.

Just think about that for a minute. If the Americans do the deed,...

(Spoiler alert: Please do not read on if you’ve not watched the fourth episode of the FX limited series “Taboo”) After the fourth episode, I’m now fully on board with “Taboo.” I wrote last week that I’d gone from disinterest to enthrallment once the plot really started to kick in at the end of Episode 2, but I realized this week that wasn’t the main reason. No, my newfound attachment to “Taboo” can be laid at the feet of a specific character who made a late entry: Lorna Bow. Lorna (Jessie Buckley) first appeared in theatrical fashion...

On this week’s episode of Taboo, James Delaney is feeling the pressure after being black listed but he’s not a man to back down easily. In episode 3 we saw James recover from the failed assassination attempt and safeguard his life from the East India Company and the Crown by writing a will. He also made various demands to both the Crown and the Americans regards what he might want in return of Nootka Sound. The brother and sister love triangle also came into sharper contrast with his brother-in-law provoking him with tales of how he spent the nights with...read more...

Louisa Mellor Jan 28, 2017

At pains to prove that it isn’t your grandma’s period drama, Taboo delivers its most compelling but problematic episode yet…

This review contains spoilers.

So, the rumours were all true. Not only is James Delaney an invincible cannibal warrior, he’s also a legit wizard. After three episodes of dancing around it, Taboo took a two-footed leap into the supernatural realm this week by showing Delaney rape his sleeping sister via the astral plane. Zilpha being shown to have enjoyed James “breaking in” would ordinarily be the point I’d tell a TV show to do one, but as I’m here until the bitter end, let’s get into it.

To take a charitable approach, Taboo could be seen to be travelling a well-worn route in colonial fiction by showing Zilpha’s body to be contested territory. She is Nootka Sound, property over which...

Tom Hardy’s epic drama Taboo has drawn viewers’ intrigue with the mysterious Sankofa bird symbol which has made repeated appearances during the series so far. But what is it, and is it a real thing? The bird symbol first cropped up in Episode 2 when Hardy’s character James Delaney was seen chiselling it out on to the wooden floor of a ship. Then in Episode 3 the Sankofa is referenced three times. The first is when it’s mentioned by the young girl called Winter, who says she knows what it means. Delaney then uncovers it etched into the wall above a fireplace...read more...

Television and movie producers have a weird habit of doubling-up on big ideas, delivering two projects with more or less the same basic concept at roughly the same time. For no apparent reason, we'll get hit with a couple of "giant space rock threatens to destroy the Earth" blockbusters in the same summer; or a pair of "behind the scenes at a late-night comedy series" in the same fall TV season. So perhaps it's not that odd that FX and Netflix are about to serve up competing historical adventures, both...

Louisa Mellor Jan 21, 2017

The enemies and the taboos keep stacking up for Delaney in the latest episode of the BBC’s lurid period melodrama…

This review contains spoilers.

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A tea trading monopoly? That’s what all this trouble is over? James Delaney has been fighting assassins, getting stabbed in the gut and making enemies in Regency society’s upper ranks all because he wants to open the UK’s first branch of Whittard.

Well, at least we know.

Aside from riling up everyone he crosses paths with, Delaney’s motivations have been tricky to discern until now. Realising that he’s essentially a Dragon’s Den contestant trying to play the Americans off the British for the biggest investment in his China-based start-up makes him a more accessible lead.

There’s more to it,...

We got some answers in addition to questions, questions, and more questions. Plus a nasty cliffhanger to boot!

In a crackling, suspenseful Taboo Season 1 Episode 2, we start to see a few dents in the mighty armor of James Delaney, and the show is much the better for it. 

I never expected to end the episode with Delaney collapsed on the cobblestones, a pig sticker in his gut, and I was pleasantly surprised, frankly.

Up to this point, he was a one man apocalypse, the unstoppable force.

I said in my Taboo premiere review that it would make the show much more compelling to have him a little vulnerable at times. Well, that's just what we got. 

This episode made me think of Delaney as a 19th century version of Clint Eastwood's "Man With No Name" character from his spaghetti western days, assembling a team of slimy minions to do his bidding,...

Spoilers – The second episode of Taboo saw our mysterious anti-hero James Delaney start to carry out his plan. In episode one we were introduced to the son everyone thought had died in Africa, now returned following his father’s death. His father’s lawyer told James that he was the sole heir, much to the annoyance of the East India Company who would like to own Nootka Sound on the North American Pacific coast. He was also suspicious over how his father died and enlisted the aid of an anatomist to find out more. He was told that his father was probably poisoned using arsenic, administered in large doses...read more...

He's created a series of performances that have taken advantage of his intensity, his brutish physique and his way around a multi-syllable sentence – and now, Tom Hardy has somehow created a role for himself that feels more Tom Hardy than almost anything else he's done. In Taboo, the new FX series the actor co-created with father Chips Hardy and Peaky Blinders showrunner Steven Knight, he plays gruff protagonist James Delaney, an early 19th-century explorer who returns home to London to find out he's inherited land sought after by the East India Company.

This week on Taboo, James Delaney makes plans but they are threatened by a newcomer — and his life is in imminent danger. Tom Hardy’s character is as confident as he is mysterious, and this week sees his plans start to take shape as he makes some important purchases and looks to hire some eyes and ears. However, not all goes his way as it turns out his father had more than old papers and maps hidden away. But will this new arrival end up an enemy or a friend? The British East India Company also continues to plot, as its leader Sir...read more...

Period drama is currently airing in the UK and Us.

Taboo, the eight-part TV drama series currently playing on BBC One in the UK and FX in the Us, has sold to multiple international territories.

The deals include: HBO for Spain, Nordic territories and Eastern Europe; AMC for Portugal; TV1000/Viasat for Russia and Cis region; Cosmote in Greece; Digiturk in Turkey; and Fox Network Group Latin America for the Americas and the Caribbean.

Set in 1814, Hardy stars in the series as a man who, believed long dead, returns home from Africa to London to inherit the remnants of his father’s shipping empire.

Taboo was created by Tom Hardy and Dean Baker for their outfit Hard, Son & Baker, along with Steve Knight and Timothy Bricknell.

Four episodes were directed by Kristoffer Nyholm (The Killing) and the remaining four were directed by Anders Engström (Wallander). Ridley Scott and Kate Crowe were executive producers for Scott Free London...

Period drama is currently airing in the UK and Us.

Taboo, the eight-part TV drama series currently playing on BBC One in the UK and FX in the Us, has sold to multiple international territories.

The deals include: HBO for Spain, Nordic territories and Eastern Europe; AMC for Portugal; TV1000/Viasat for Russia and Cis region; Cosmote in Greece; Digiturk in Turkey; and Fox Network Group Latin America for the Americas and the Caribbean.

Set in 1814, Hardy stars in the series as a man who, believed long dead, returns home from Africa to London to inherit the remnants of his father’s shipping empire.

Taboo was created by Tom Hardy and Dean Baker for their outfit Hard, Son & Baker, along with Steve Knight and Timothy Bricknell.

Four episodes were directed by Kristoffer Nyholm (The Killing) and the remaining four were directed by Anders Engström (Wallander). Ridley Scott and Kate Crowe were executive producers for Scott Free London...

Tom Hardy has had a prolific acting career, and he usually has quite a few projects that he is working on. You may first remember him in his first role from HBO's Band of Brothers where he played John A. Janovec for 2 episodes, from his The Dark Knight Rises role as Bane, Mad Max: Fury Road, or his most recent movie role in The Revenant. This is what is on his plate now:

Star Wars: Episode VIII (post-production) / Stormtrooper - rumored (This interests me highly)Dunkirk / Farrier (post-production)Fonzo / Al Capone (pre-production)Mad Max: The Wasteland / Max Rockatansky (announced)Triple Frontier (pre-production) - rumored

In addition to these films, he is also starring in a FX network series called Taboo that he created with his father, and the synopsis for episode 1 reads:

After being presumed dead, adventurer James Delaney reappears in London seeking vengeance for the death of his father.

Louisa Mellor Jan 14, 2017

Taboo looks the part, but it needs to do more with its lead to prove itself any more than a colonial Gothic pastiche...

Taboo episode 2 review

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Do you know something? Stabbed in the gut as he is, I think James Keziah Delaney might just make it. We are, after all, only on episode two of eight. If Tom Hardy’s character bled to death on a cobbled street at this stage in proceedings, everybody else on Taboo would have to pack up and go home. Jonathan Pryce’s agent would need to score him another...

If you want to see Tom Hardy in full on Victorian beast mode, then boy, is this the show for you!

There are a few words than can be used to describe Taboo Season 1 Episode 1: weird, strange, intense, and inscrutable, among others. 

Here, Tom Hardy does what he does best: he scowls, he grunts, he glares, he looms, he intimidates. God love him, he has the badass act down Cold. 

The start of the show reminded me of Revelations: "And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. And hell followed with him."

Hardy's James Delaney arrives to 1814 London like a one man apocalypse, and heaven help anyone who gets in his way.

Forgive me Father, for I have indeed sinned.

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This is the epitome of a "slow burn" show,...

If you watched the premiere of Tom Hardy’s new miniseries “Taboo” on FX, you might be wondering what that piece of land that everyone’s fighting over is. It’s called Nootka Sound, and it’s an actual place you can visit near Vancouver. Nootka Sound is a small inlet of land on the western coast of Vancouver Island. It was known as “Mowichat” by the Nuu-chah-luuth, the tribe that has called it home for centuries. The mother of Tom Hardy’s character, James Delaney, on “Taboo” was a member of that tribe. Delaney’s recently deceased father held...

In FX’s “Taboo,” Tom Hardy plays a tormented man returning to England following his father’s death after spending 10 years in Africa — and as it turns out, James Delaney is one of the “most tortured characters” Hardy has ever played. “Delaney is probably one of the most tortured characters I’ve played because for me, he’s connected to everyone in the piece in a very personal way,” Hardy told TheWrap. “It wasn’t just about playing James Delaney but also about really immersing myself in everyone else.” Set in 19th century London, “Taboo” co-stars Jonathan Pryce, Oona Chaplin,...

You only need to watch about 90 seconds of Taboo to realize that it obviously has Peaky Blinders‘ Steven Knight behind it. Give it another five minutes and it’s hard to keep from expecting Cillian Murphy to walk around a corner. For that show’s cult following, the sell is probably over with the trailer. If grimy period pieces that serve as showcases for the costume department and feature characters that give off an air that suggests they might start slaughtering people at any moment are your bag, you know all you need to.

Those who need more will find anything they might be looking for in Tom Hardy‘s eerie depiction of a man who returns from Africa to take over his father’s business. James Delaney is a man with a checkered past, who left for Africa ten years ago and spent much of that time presumed dead.

Tom Hardy has done it all. He’s played witty rogues, brutal villains, brooding heroes, and now it’s time for the U.S. to see him as the vengeful James Delaney on “Taboo.” Here’s how Hardy got here. Hardy’s first big role came in 2001 on the HBO miniseries “Band of Brothers” as Pvt. John Janovec, a replacement soldier whose first scene features him getting caught having sex with a German woman by his commanding officer. That same year, Hardy had another small role as a soldier in “Black Hawk Down,” a war film about the bloody Battle of Mogadishu in Somalia between.

Author: Jon Lyus

“I feel least qualified to go and do a period drama for the BBC,” says Tom Hardy during our interview sessions early last December for his new eight part drama Taboo.

The show airs its first episode tomorrow night on BBC One and charts the return of James Delaney, described by the actor as a “perverse renaissance man”, to London from his adventures in Africa upon the death of his Father.

He is a man with guilty secrets, and one who gives no quarter to the hostility he encounters from his family and the institutions which seek to hold him to order. As viewers will see tonight the dawn of the Industrial Revolution has been recreated in all its gory, dirty glory. This is a bleak beginning to a story that has an even darker path to tread in future weeks.

We sat down with Hardy and...

Some stories want to explore big ideas. Some strive to be allegorical, existential, soapy, or good ol’ fashioned fun. And some stories just want to watch the world burn.

The origins of that line lead to “The Dark Knight,” not “The Dark Knight Rises.” The latter would be more fitting since it featured Tom Hardy, co-creator and star of the new FX limited series, “Taboo,” in which the star of “Warrior” and “Mad Max” burns down the world and everyone in it.

Since Hardy is the modern-day embodiment of masculine cool, that would be a fine pitch right there; plenty of series have been built on less. However, while “Taboo” may prioritize style over depth, the result is an addictive, slow-burn story, and a damn entertaining journey.

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“Taboo” (which Hardy created with his father, Chips Hardy, and frequent collaborator Steven Knight), is set in 1814 London,...