Tom Hardy Is Crime Boss Pierce Brosnan’s Fixer In New Guy Ritchie Series MobLand — Watch The Trailer

Sometimes a trailer for a new movie or show comes along that's so direct, so to the point, so does-what-it-says-on-the-tin that all you really need to do is watch it and you know you're in. The teaser for genre filmmaker Guy Ritchie's upcoming, 10-episode Paramount+ gangster joint MobLand is one such trailer. All you really need to know going in is that Pierce Brosnan is crime boss Conrad Harrigan, Helen Mirren's his wife Maeve, and Tom Hardy is the Harrigan family's fixer Harry Da Souza. We'll let the trailer fill you in on the rest;

'Sympathy For The Devil' blaring. Brosnan hamming it up with a faux Scottish brogue saying things like "we shake the right hands, we break the wrong ones." Mirren going we think Irish as a chic mob matriarch. Hardy looking hard as nails rocking knuckledusters and a cockney accent. And the word 'WAR' daubed in blood on a warehouse floor. This, on present evidence, is Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, The Gentlemen, RocknRolla level gangster fare straight "from the underworld of Guy Ritchie" — as the trailer itself so eloquently puts it. And it's an underworld with a deep bench of genre players joining our leading trio, as the ensemble includes Paddy Considine, Joanne Froggatt, Lara Pulver, Anson Boon, Mandeep Dhillon, Jasmine Jobson, Geoff Bell, Daniel Betts, Lisa Dwan, and Emily Barber, too.

The teaser trailer doesn't give too, too much away about the plot, but we do get some more clues about what's ahead in the official synopsis for the series (which, interestingly, was at one point meant to be a London based Ray Donovan spin-off): "Power is up for grabs as the Harrigans and Stevensons, two warring London crime families, clash in a kill-or-be-killed battle that threatens to topple empires and ruin lives. Caught in the crossfire is Harry Da Souza, the street-smart ‘fixer’ as dangerous as he is handsome, who knows too well where loyalties lie when opposing forces collide. As kingdom goes up against kingdom, lines will be crossed - and the only saving grace is a bet-your-life guarantee: family above everything."

We'll be having a butchers at the custard and jelly to see if Ritchie's latest is the mutt's nuts or a bit of a dog's dinner when MobLand lands on Paramount+ on 30 March. In the meantime, we're off to perfect our impression of Pierce Brosnan saying "rat bastard." Gotta roll them 'r's real good, folks.