Tom Hardy and Aaron Taylor-Johnson They are surely, at the moment, the “two tough guys” of Hollywood. With a prominent physique and rectangular faces, the two actors stood out this year with their respective productions. Taylor-Johnson with The specialistfailed at the box office and Hardy with Bikersthe biker crime drama directed by Jeff Nichols. Now, for the first time, they will be cast in a production that will adapt nothing more nor less blood in the snowthe bestselling detective novel by Jo Nesbo. Under the gaze of the filmmaker Cary FukunagaThe two characters that these actors will bring to life will be as imposing as they have both accustomed us to in their respective filmographies.
Nesbø wrote the script himself, although the screenwriter Ben Power (Munich on the Eve of War) will make their respective revisions, since the Norwegian writer is not used to the booklet format but is used to the particularities and mechanisms of literary writing. blood in the snow tells the story of two rival gang leaders named Hoffman and the Fisherman (Hardy), who are fighting for a power vacuum. Between the two will be Olav (Taylor-Johnson), one of Hoffman’s hitmen, tired of his solitude and resigned to a life without passions. But one day, he meets the woman of his dreams who doubly condemns his romanticism. The first is that she is Corina Hoffman, the wife of his boss. The second? Hoffman wants her dead and he is the one who must be responsible for pulling the trigger.
Under this premise, blood in the snow This is a completely different story from the one we are used to hearing from Nesbø. his crime thrillers focused on the character of Harry Hole, although specialist critics considered it one of his most mature and personal works, full of “irony, mordance and wit”.
A Redemption for Fukunaga
Cary Fukunaga won an Emmy in 2014 for his fantastic work directing the series. True Detective. A recognition for which he would also be considered in 2018 with the Netflix fiction, The Alienist. However, in the cinematographic field, he was not so lucky despite the support of MGM (Metro Goldwyn Mayer) to film No time to die In 2021, Daniel Craig’s farewell as 007. The film failed to convince critics and actually did much worse in the box office than they had previously achieved. Spectrum And sky fall. At least his performances in the series Masters of Airreleased in 2024 on Apple TV+, was applauded enough to once again praise her figure. In 2022, the controversy surrounding her figure was fueled by numerous accusations of inappropriate behavior, including the firing of actress Readen Greer after she refused to go topless in a scene from it, True Detective. All this media noise has come to a standstill, so maybe
With filming scheduled for the end of the year, the production is still actively looking for a cast that get a boost all the more so a cast already more than recognizable with the presence of Hardy and who, in everyone’s opinion, is best placed to be the new James Bond.
Hardy and Taylor-Johnson: two tough guys
These aren’t easy times for the box office, but Hardy and Taylor-Johnson’s latest works have fared better in streaming than in theaters. Something that could possibly change in the coming months since the two will indeed be releasing films that share a universe. We’re talking about the world of villains Spiderman created by Sony Pictures.
We will see Hardy in Venom: The Last Danceclosing what seems to be a superheroic stage that, although it brought him fundraising successes, diminished his prolific career in terms of quality. No one doubts that this kind of farewell will be a great financial boon for Sony Pictures. What does not seem so clear is the performance of the future character of Aaron Taylor-Johnson. We are talking about Kraven the Hunterother spin off of questionable interest to an audience that has already experienced failures such as Morbius either Madame Web. The Kraven movie will be released in theaters on December 13. In his most authoritative guise, the young British actor will appear in the Nosferatu by Robert Egers and in 2025 he will be part of the big cast of 28 years laterthe new installment of the Danny Boyle and Alex Garland saga.
