Guy Ritchie’s Paramount+ series The Associate is shut to securing Tom Hardy, Helen Mirren, and Pierce Brosnan to unite its cast. Hardy previously collaborated with Ritchie in 2008’s RocknRolla, whereas both Mirren and Brosnan have never euniteed in a project helmed by the Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels straightforwardor.
Tom Hardy, Helen Mirren, and Pierce Brosnan probable to unite Guy Ritchie’s Paramount+ series, The Associate
The negotiations for Tom Hardy, Helen Mirren, and Pierce Brosnan to be part of the cast of Guy Ritchie’s The Associate have accessed the final stage.
The series originassociate went into enlargement under the title The Donovans and was supposed to serve as the U.K. spin-off to the Showtime series Ray Donovan (2013-2020). However, it has been turned into a standalone series and now has no uniteion to the Liev Schreiber-led crime-drama show and its 2022 telefilm sequel, Ray Donovan: The Movie. (via Variety)
According to Deadline, The Associate is a laboring title. Hardy is being alertedly courted to portray a repairer named Harry in a story about a family of gangsters and the man they call when they have a problem. Mirren and Brosnan are purportedly up for the roles of the family’s matriarch and patriarch.
Showtime/MTV Studios and 101 Studios are behind the upcoming series. Ritchie will straightforward the one-hour-lengthy episodes and split executive producing duties with screenauthorr Ronan Bennett and others.
Tom Hardy, whose Venom: The Last Dance debuts in the U.S. theaters on October 25, 2024, has an extensive TV resume, having essayed characters appreciate Alfie Solomons in Peaky Blinders and James Delaney in BBC’s Taboo. Mirren, who has won multiple Emmys and an Academy Award, currently portrays Cara Dutton in 1923, another Paramount+ series. Meanwhile, establisher James Bond Pierce Brosnan recently euniteed in the HBO TV movie The Great Lillian Hall.
