Tom Hardy fired from ‘Mobland’ season 3

Tom Hardy is no longer from ‘Mobland’.

Variety has confirmed with sources that Hardy will not appear in a third season of the Paramount+ crime drama. Production has already wrapped on season 2, with filming wrapping up in March. Sources say Hardy was let go from the series after issues with executive producer Jez Butterworth, 101 Studios and others.

Variety has reached out to representatives from Hardy, Butterworth, Paramount and 101 Studios for comment.

A third season hasn’t been formally announced at this time, but given the show’s success on the streaming platform, it’s all but guaranteed. How Hardy’s character would be written out of the series remains to be seen.

Hardy plays fixer Harry Da Souza in the series, which launched last spring on Paramount+ and quickly became the second most-watched series on the platform. ‘Mobland’, created by Ronan Bennett, stars Pierce Brosnan, Helen Mirren and Paddy Considine. It follows the Harrigan crime family, led by Brosnan’s Conrad and his wife Maeve (Mirren). Considine plays their son Kevin.

Butterworth co-wrote all ten episodes with Bennett.

It’s not the first time Hardy has clashed with colleagues on set. He infamously got into a fight with co-star Charlize Theron on the set of ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’, with director George Miller later revealing that he had to be ‘lured out of his trailer’. Kyle Buchanan also wrote in “Blood, Sweat, and Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road,” a book about the making of the film, that Hardy was “aggressive” during filming.

Puck was the first to report the ‘Mobland’ news.

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