More than three years after Kaylee Goncalves and her three friends were murdered by Bryan Kohberger, the college student’s parents still have one question they desperately want answered.

“I would ask him, ‘Why? Please, please, please. Do you not think that our family has been through enough?’” Kaylee’s mother, Kristi Goncalves, told the Daily Mail in an interview published on Thursday, June 4. “Do you not think what you did to our daughter — when we found out that you stabbed her 38 times with a seven-inch KaBar military model knife, 24 times to her face, to her head, 11 times to her chest and neck, and three defensive wounds as she sat up in that bed, and she fought for her life? … Can you just tell me why? I’m a mother, and you have a mother, too. Can you please just tell me why?”

Kaylee’s father, Steve Goncalves, added, “That’s all you would have to do. Explain to us how that happened and what other weapon you used.”

In July 2025, Kohberger, 31, pleaded guilty to four counts of first-degree murder and one count of felony burglary. The plea deal was condemned by the Goncalves family because it allowed Kohberger to avoid the death penalty and did not require him to reveal details of his murders.

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The murderous actions of Bryan Kohberger continue to haunt the families of his four victims, as the state of Idaho stirs up fresh heartache with the continued release of graphic court filings. Most recently, Idaho officials made public forensic reports containing previously unreleased details. In them, medical examiners noted in vivid detail just how Kohberger […]

As Kohberger remains behind bars, Kristi struggles not knowing what the motive was for the killer’s highly publicized crimes.

“That is something that I still deal with daily. I am constantly thinking, why?” she said. “Why our kids? Why that house?”

In honor of Kaylee’s memory, both Kristi and Steve are trying to turn their pain into purpose by launching a foundation that aims to help other families get answers in their cases.

The Kaylee Goncalves Foundation, which operates under the name Murder Has a Name, has a mission statement online stating, “We are committed to expanding access to advanced forensic DNA technology, investigative resources and critical case funding so that victims are never forgotten and families are not left without options.”

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Related: Kaylee Goncalves’ Dad Says Public Deserves to Know Idaho Murders Details

Steve Goncalves, the father of murdered University of Idaho student Kaylee Goncalves, insisted that the public deserves to know the details of Bryan Kohberger’s plea deal. “I think the public should demand [the truth] 100 percent. Sometimes the courtroom doesn’t realize that there is no courtroom without victims, and they need to represent them, people […]

Kristi and Steve are confident their daughter would be proud to see what her parents have been working on.

“To think of her thinking, ‘Oh, my gosh, I helped such and such’s case,’ there’s a meaning, a reason to this,” Kristi shared. “I know she’s rooting us on. She would give us an A for effort.”

Steve added, “She is directly playing a role in us doing this, and as long as we’re successful, as long as we keep working and keep doing what we’re doing today, then we can get these cases solved.”

As Kohberger remains behind bars at the Idaho Maximum Security Institution, Kristi holds out hope that he may decide to answer burning questions about the case.

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Relatives of one of confessed killer Bryan Kohberger‘s four victims have been speaking out after a recent photo dump by Idaho officials left them reeling. The family of Kaylee Goncalves denounced the thousands of redacted crime scene photographs Idaho State Police made public on Tuesday, January 20, claiming through social media they were given very […]

“Maybe one day he’ll choose to speak to a journalist and will spill the beans,” Kristie shared. “Maybe he’ll hold onto it forever. But there’s still a chance. … It is hard not having those answers. It’s incredibly horrible.”

At the same time, she is grateful to at least know who is responsible for taking her daughter’s life too soon.

“I have to put myself in a position to accept the fact that the most important answer we do have, and that’s who did it,” she revealed. “When I’m sitting thinking we don’t know why, I also think that some people don’t even have answers to who did it. I try to be mindful of that.”

By Jonathan Klotz
| Updated 10 hours ago

An overpopulated Earth running out of resources has set the stage for countless sci-fi stories that typically send people off into space, WALL-E, Lost in Space, Interstellar, Pandorum, there are countless variations of that story. In 2011, Fox launched an ambitious sci-fi series that had the most convoluted solution yet: Send colonists back in time to the Cretaceous period of a parallel time stream. Terra Nova has an insane premise that falls apart the moment you look at it. A swift cancellation after only one season makes it another one of Fox’s many missed sci-fi opportunities, proving even Steven Spielberg wasn’t safe from the C-suite. 

Terra Nova Goes To The Past To Save The Future

Spielberg was one of Terra Nova’s executive producers, alongside Star Trek’s Brannon Braga, though it was co-created by Kelly Marcel. Don’t know her name? You know her work: She wrote all three of Sony’s Venom movies, and directed Venom: The Last Dance. The series started with a bang on September 26, 2011, following one of the most expensive pilot episodes in history. It didn’t take long, though, for the most annoying sci-fi trope to take over and completely derail the series: kids. 

Terra Nova kicks off with the Shannon family, Jim the police officer(Jason O’Mara), Elisabeth the medical doctor (Shelly Conn, Lady Marie Sheffield in Bridgerton) and their children, Josh (Landon Liboiron), Maddie (Naomi Scott), and Zoe, being sent through the portal to the past as punishment for having one too many children. Commander Taylor (Stephen Lang), the only survivor of the first pilgrimage, rules over Terra Nova with an iron fist, protecting them from outside threats (dinosaurs) and domestic threats (rebels). If you can see where this is going, congrats, you’ve seen a sci-fi show before. 

The Shannon kids, Josh and Maddie, quickly dominate the show’s storylines as they wind up falling in with the rebellious Sixers, named after the Sixth Pilgrimage, the first one influenced by industrial companies to send resources back to the future. For the entire middle stretch of the series, you’ll be yelling at them that The Sixers are not good, and every choice they’re making is the wrong one. Eventually, The Sixers, rebranded as The Phoenix Group, engage in open warfare against the colony with the support of the corporations. It’s a great setup for a Season 2 we never received. 

More Unrealized Potential Than My High School Report Card

Terra Nova is a fun watch, but frustrating, as once the story comes together and reaches a boiling point of tension, it ends. The finale has an amazing sequence involving a T-Rex that pays off the entire season, but then it’s over. Dwindling viewership from the slow-paced middle episodes, combined with the astronomical budget for the series, gave Fox all the reason it needed to pull the plug three months after the finale. 

Dinosaurs aren’t cheap, and Terra Nova has the best dinosaurs you’ll see on a television budget. It’s a series that would be a massive hit in the streaming era of fewer episodes and a higher budget per season. That would enhance the strengths of the show and take away the slow pacing and over-involvement of the kids. 

Instead, the show is another to be added onto Fox’s pile of sci-fi canceled too soon, alongside Almost Human, Dark Angel, and Firefly. Terra Nova isn’t the greatest sci-fi series, but it’s not the worst. It’s 13 episodes brimming with unrealized potential and a million different ways it could have gone that should have been able to retain the initial audience of 10 million viewers. No other sci-fi show has given us an ankylosaurus, the best dinosaur, and for that alone, it deserved better. 

Terra Nova is now streaming for free on Tubi.

By Chris Snellgrove
| Published 10 hours ago

Want to know the question that has mystified countless fans around the internet and one of the most powerful film studios in the world? Here it is: “What can save the Marvel Cinematic Universe?” Once, the MCU was the dominant force in pop culture, regularly cranking out movies that earned over a billion dollars at the box office. However, things began to fall apart after Avengers: Endgame. Fans resented the influx of lackluster Marvel programming on Disney+, and they rejected movies that felt like lazy Variants of the same old tights-and-flights formula. By the time “superhero fatigue” entered our vernacular, the unthinkable happened, and The Marvels actually lost money at the box office.

This was particularly significant because it was a sequel to Captain Marvel, one of those movies that earned over a billion dollars. The writing was on the wall: the MCU was going to have to change things up significantly if it wanted to live, much less to thrive. Now, though, Deadpool & Wolverine star Emma Corrin has the perfect idea. Since she played Cassandra Nova, Professor X’s evil twin sister, she wants to star in a vulgar “sibling comedy” that shows how these two bitter enemies learn how to bury the psychic axe and finally start bonding.

Creepy Comics Queen

Cassandra Nova is one of the weirder characters in Marvel history. She was created by Grant Morrison for his amazing run on New X-Men. The long story with this villain is that she’s a parasite who copied Charles Xavier’s DNA in the womb and created her own body to serve as his dark “other.” The short story is that she’s his evil twin, one who has her own set of spooky powers. Nobody ever expected to see her on the silver screen, but Cassandra popped up as the surprise Big Bad of Deadpool & Wolverine, where she served as the brutal overseer of the Void, the ultimate wasteland at the end of time.

The villain is killed at the end of Deadpool & Wolverine, but that doesn’t preclude one of her Variants popping up in the MCU. Cassandra Nova actor Emma Corrin agrees: in a recent interview with Variety, when asked if she would consider reprising her role, she replied that she “absolutely would, 100%.” Noting that the “story’s not over” for her character, she went on to pitch a very unconventional superhero story. “I would like to see a Professor X and Cassandra Nova bonding film — a sibling comedy like ‘Step Brothers.’ Make it happen! Internet, do your thing!”

Marvel Needs To Take A Little Off The Top

Obviously, this may be nothing more than an actor very publicly signifying that she’s open to more work. After all, who wouldn’t want another fat check from one of the biggest studios in the world? But the more I thought about it, I just couldn’t get over what a weirdly good idea this really is. Such a film would instantly solve two of Marvel’s biggest problems. One, it would be inexpensive to make, so there’s no need for another bloated budget. Two, a sibling comedy is like nothing at all in the MCU, and the sheer novelty of a movie so far outside the usual superhero formula is likely to put butts in seats.

Right now, Obsession, which was made for $750,000, is absolutely destroying the first new Star Wars film in seven years at the box office. The success of this movie (as well as its fellow low-budget horror film, Backrooms) is proof that what audiences really want is something new, ideally from filmmakers with a vision. That’s the opposite approach of Marvel Studios, which has spent nearly two decades effectively dooming itself by forcing some of the best directors to follow a cookie-cutter superhero formula. Every movie has to abide by the MCU house style, has to have the same quirky dialogue, and has to end in the same CGI slugfest slurry. 

The Future Face Of Marvel

That’s the real cause of superhero fatigue: audiences didn’t get tired of watching superhero movies, they got tired of watching a barely-reskinned version of the same superhero movie. Emma Corrin’s idea of a Cassandra Nova/Professor X sibling comedy could finally give us a new kind of Marvel movie, one that emphasizes killer punchlines rather than world-threatening supervillain showdowns. Done well, such a movie would also focus on characterization, something that modern MCU movies like Captain America: Brave New World struggle with because they are busy shuffling us from one tepid fight scene to the next.   

Emma Corrin called on the internet to do its thing. Well, I’m the internet, and I’m doing my thing to magnify her delightfully insane idea. Right now, Kevin Feige is hard at work trying to craft an X-Men movie to serve as the new foundation for the MCU, and it’s likely to be weighed down by attempts to match the gravitas of films like Avengers: Endgame. However, if Marvel Studios made Corrin’s idea a reality, we could finally have a mutant movie that celebrates the best thing about the X-Men comics: how delightfully silly they are and how bonkers plots and chaotic campiness have always, always been part of their charm!

By Chris Snellgrove
| Published 9 hours ago

Some actors have the worst luck in picking solid roles. More often than you might think, they get a strong start and then pick stinker after stinker for their next big appearance. For example, Sarah Michelle Gellar became a teen icon thanks to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but afterwards, she had an almost supernatural ability to pick doomed TV shows that died after one season. As for Kevin Costner, he dazzled in unconventional dramas like Field of Dreams, but he developed a seeming fetish for doomed epics like The Postman, and he pissed away his beloved Yellowstone role to spend $38 million of his own money to make the failed Western Horizon: An American Saga. 

These two, like most actors, don’t say much about their previous failures, preferring to look forward rather than backwards. Recently, however, the hottest TV actor of the modern age decided to buck this trend and acknowledge that she had made some bad decisions when it came to picking her next role. That actor is Emilia Clarke, who became a household name after the breakout success of HBO’s Game of Thrones. Recently, she gave a hilariously frank interview where she made fun of her most hated roles while making it clear that she doesn’t blame the fans for those projects failing.

The Naked Truth

Emilia Clarke’s recent interview with Variety was surreally fascinating. She wasn’t going out of her way to promote any upcoming projects or even just satisfy her own vanity. Instead, she largely focused on some of the missteps she had taken as an actor. Acknowledging that she felt bitter after not winning an Emmy in 2019 because she felt like she had become “old news,” she also opened up about long-festering gossip, including rumors of how much the Game of Thrones cast made and whether she experienced any sex pests on that set (the answer was no, though she declined to comment on whether anything like that happened on the set of Solo or Terminator: Genisys).

Soon enough, she began dishing about her failed attempts to distinguish herself from Game of Thrones. When talking about how fans reacted to Secret Invasion, she adopted a silly voice and said, “I don’t think no one liked that show, guys. I’m sorry!” The seal broken, she continued: “Star Wars’? They didn’t like it. Terminator? That should never have happened. But these were jobs I said yes to, you know what I mean?” Fortunately, she doesn’t blame the different franchise fandoms for these film failures. “I entered into already existing franchises,” she said, “so when they don’t work out, it’s not personal.”

She’ll Be Back

Honestly, this is a very refreshing attitude, especially when you compare Emilia Clarke’s humility with various stars who have blamed fans for their projects failing. When Ocean’s 8 bombed, star Mindy Kaling blamed “white men” for simply hating what she, a woman of color, had created. Similarly, when A Wrinkle In Time disappointed, Captain Marvel star Brie Larson notoriously lashed out at a certain type of critic: “I don’t need a 40-year-old white dude to tell me what didn’t work … It wasn’t made for him!” Meanwhile, Ghostbusters (2016) star Melissa McCarthy questioned the real motivation of fans hating that reboot by saying, “I just don’t know why people are so afraid of women.”

So, while the bar is obviously in hell, Emilia Clarke deserves full props for not lashing out at fans after starring in three failed franchise projects (four if we count that final Game of Thrones season). She understands that fans want what they want, and if she or her projects fail to deliver, she doesn’t get offended. Eventually, the Game of Thrones actor decided to stop focusing on starring in the next big thing and start picking roles “for no other reason than that I would enjoy that job.” That’s really the healthiest approach to Hollywood, and her humility is enough to make fans fall in love with her all over again.

Not bad, huh? Especially for a girl whose most famous character solved all her problems by setting them on fire!

When Joe McCann and Ashlee Jenae’s names started circulating online in connection with an ongoing investigation, speculation quickly followed. But now, authorities overseas have officially closed the case, and Joe is finally speaking out.

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Joe McCann Speaks After Tanzania Investigation Seemingly Clears Him

Joe McCann, fiancé of the late Ashlee Jenae, has broken his silence after police in Tanzania concluded their investigation and reportedly determined he was not responsible for her death. In a statement, Joe reflected on the official findings while acknowledging that the conclusion does not ease his grief. He opened with a Swahili proverb, saying, “The heart is like a forest. One cannot see into it,” before adding that the announcement “does not lessen the tragedy” of losing his partner. Joe went on to say he misses Ashlee “every moment of every day,” describing her passing as a sudden loss he cannot simply move on from.

Joe McCann Thanks Officials, Seeks Clarity

Furthermore, McCann also emphasized that his focus throughout the investigation was on cooperation and bringing clarity to the situation surrounding her death. Joe stated that his priority was ensuring Ashlee was brought home and that the truth would come out through proper channels. He closed his remarks by thanking Tanzanian authorities for what he described as a “professional, sensitive, and thorough investigation,” expressing gratitude for their handling of the case as he continues to mourn her loss.

“The heart is like a forest. One cannot see into it.”

－ Old Swahili Proverb

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Today’s official announcement from Tanzanian authorities that my soulmate Ashly Robinson died by suicide does not lessen the tragedy of her death.

I miss Ashly every moment of every day and the pain…

— ◢ (@joemccann) June 4, 2026

What Authorities Concluded About Ashlee Jenae’s Death

Joe McCann spoke out after the Zanzibar Police Force officially closed its investigation into Ashlee Jenae’s death. As previously reported, authorities concluded she died by suicide due to mental distress and cleared him of any involvement. Local officials on June 4, 2026, closed the investigation into Ashlee Jenae’s death after analyzing communications and witness statements they say showed emotional distress leading up to her passing, concluding the case “beyond a reasonable doubt” and clearing all other individuals, which prompted Joe McCann to publicly respond to the ruling, acknowledge the findings, and speak on the case’s closure while continuing to mourn her loss.

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By Chris Snellgrove
| Published 8 hours ago

Marvel has built a multi-billion-dollar industry out of making movies where colorful heroes fight mustache-twirling supervillains. In real-life, no such villains exist, but that hasn’t kept Kevin Feige from having an ongoing showdown with his own Big Bad: superhero fatigue. After the Marvel Cinematic Universe reached its apex with Avengers: Endgame, subsequent films stopped printing money as reliably as they once did. Audiences yawned at ambitious failures like Eternals, and even critically acclaimed blockbusters like The Thunderbolts and The Fantastic Four: First Steps couldn’t earn as much money as Superman, the breakout film of last summer. Historically, the main reason given for Marvel’s decline is that its fans are suffering from superhero fatigue.

The basic idea behind superhero fatigue is that audiences have gotten sick of seeing the same characters do the same thing onscreen. You can only watch Sam Wilson kick butt in so many Avengers movies before seeing him fight a palette-swapped Hulk in Captain America: Brave New World seems pretty boring, right? The exception to this seems to be Spider-Man, who is about to have his 12th film in 24 years. We’re averaging a new movie every other year, but this remains the most popular superhero in the world. Why is he seemingly immune to superhero fatigue? Simple: Spider-Man films keep changing characters, actors, and stories, making everything feel constantly fresh and new.

Spider-Man: Good Old Days

Since Sam Raimi kicked off his web-head trilogy in 2002, every Spider-Man film has been very successful. Even the ones that audiences generally hated ended up making some serious bank at the box office. For example, Spider-Man 3 was considered a major dud by critics and fans alike, but it still earned $895.9 million; by comparison, the critically acclaimed, fan-favorite film Spider-Man 2 only earned $795.9 million. Later, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, which is blamed for killing Sony’s own Spidey cinematic universe, earned $716.9 million, which was admittedly less than the previous movie’s $758.7 million, but it was still the seventh highest-grossing movie of 2012.

There’s a pretty simple lesson there: moviegoers really, really like Spider-Man. They like this superhero so much that even when we get a bad Spidey movie with terrible word-of-mouth, it still does gangbusters at the box office. Once Sony reluctantly partnered with Marvel, Spider-Man movies earned more than ever before, with No Way Home earning a jaw-dropping $1.921 billion. Clearly, this is one character that is immune to superhero fatigue because even his worst movies make bank for the studio. Why, though, is Spidey immune? By both accident and design, his movies have offered audiences the variety and diversity they just can’t get from other heroes.

Spider-Man Just Keeps Changing

Let’s start with the original Sam Raimi trilogy. The first Spider-Man was a fairly intimate origin story, one that kept the stakes appropriately low. Spider-Man 2, however, was a romance wrapped in spandex tights, and it upped the stakes so that Spidey was saving trains full of people and, eventually, the entire city. The much-maligned Spider-Man 3, meanwhile, served as a deconstruction of the relationship between power and responsibility, emphasizing Peter’s essential goodness even as it highlighted an internal struggle against selfish desire and an external struggle against more villains than ever before.

Later, The Amazing Spider-Man offered audiences some built-in novelty. This reboot sported entirely new actors, and its revised origin story felt fresh thanks to the natural chemistry between Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 was an ambitious film that balanced the cute growing relationship between Peter and Gwen Stacey with a story about complex family legacies (Harry and Norman Osborn), nice guy toxicity (Max Dillon going from geek to freak), and taking chances (Gwen’s potential Oxford scholarship). Admittedly, the movie is crowded by too many plots and too many villains, but credit where credit’s due, it’s very different and anything but boring.

A Spider By Any Other Name Would Smell Just As Sweet

The success of the MCU Spider-Man movies more or less speaks for itself, as does the failure of most of Sony’s solo Spidey villain franchises except for Venom. The failure of those Big Bad’s movies really underscores that audiences are in it to see their favorite superhero and not just his B-list enemies. Notably, Sony’s Spider-Verse movies were an unqualified smash hit thanks largely to awesome writing, jaw-dropping animation, and familiar characters. But it’s also worth pointing out how quickly audiences fell in love with a new Spider-Man: Miles Morales. Throw in Gwen Stacey and Peter Parker as we had never seen them before, and you had films that felt genuinely innovative.  

In short, the Spider-Man films have always been successful because each one is either reinventing the character or giving us a fresh storyline. None of Sam Raimi’s Spidey films are quite the same, and Marc Webb’s duology features two very different movies. The Spider-Verse movies deal with entirely different versions of familiar characters, while even the MCU changed things up: Homecoming was a coming-of-age film, Far From Home was a movie about processing grief, and No Way Home was a multiversal mashup. Now, Brand New Day is about to change things up with a small army of cameos and new characters, even as Spider-Noir completely changes everything we know about Spidey-style storytelling.

There you have it, web-heads: superhero fatigue doesn’t truly exist. Audiences are simply sick of watching the same actors playing the same characters doing the same things. For almost a quarter of a century, Spider-Man has remained the most popular superhero, and this is largely because his movies have constantly changed up actors, characters, and plots. The constant success of this character is effectively a challenge to Marvel Studios. Namely, adapt or die. If they can give other characters the variety and narrative versatility of Spidey, they’ll thrive. Otherwise, the MCU will die because fans will be busy watching movies like Obsession and Backrooms that offer what Kevin Feige no longer can: new ideas.

Tom Hardy‘s ousting from “MobLand” has seemingly taken a more complicated turn as reports suggest Paramount+ is now sizing up a possible replacement for him.

This comes amid reports that the actor has not been completely shut out from the hit series, and that there’s still a possibility for him to make a return despite tension with the producer.

Tom Hardy was reportedly booted off set after exhibiting some unbecoming attitude towards producers Jez Butterworth and David Glasser.

Hardy’s time on “MobLand” may soon be a thing of the past for sure amid reports he was shown the exit.

There have been so many speculations surrounding his fate as street-smart fixer Harry De Souza in the hit crime drama, especially because of reports that he had a falling out with the producers.

However, the latest development suggests he is choosing not to return to the series after enduring a turbulent second season.

According to Page Six, some A-List names have already been approached to replace him, including Idris Elba and Colin Farrell.

The move further complicates things as competing reports earlier suggested he “was not fired” and there were talks of a return to the set, per Variety.

Sources claimed that the “door was not closed,” and they were “creatively working through” a plan to keep him on board for season 3, which has not been granted the go-ahead.

Rumors Of On-Set Tension Continue To Surface

One thing seems to be recurring in the whole upheaval, and it is that there was some form of tension on set.

There were reports that the 48-year-old actor frequently engaged in a power play by refusing to leave his trailer for hours at a time and had a clash with the producers.

However, sources speaking to Page Six note that the blame doesn’t lie entirely with the British star.

Hardy’s frustration was reportedly heavily fueled by structural issues, including script pages from co-creator Jez Butterworth arriving very late before shooting, with the situation sometimes demanding that the cast learn their lines that day. This reportedly led to delays and panic over budgets from the studio.

“You have an A-plus writer who’s got a lot of power and who has a methodology of ‘I don’t know where this is going,’ and then an A-plus actor who is used to knowing the entire arc of a character in a story,” an insider told the news outlet.

“It was all very passive-aggressive and British. It wasn’t even a feud,” they added.

Helen Mirren Shared A Post About Tom Hardy Amid Rumors Of A Rift Between Them

Amid the confusion, Hardy received love from costar Helen Mirren,  who plays Maeve Harrigan, the cunning and formidable matriarch of the Harrigan crime dynasty, serving as the power behind the throne to her husband, Conrad Harrigan, played by Pierce Brosnan.

To seemingly quell the rumors surrounding the actor, she shared a picture of Hardy on her social media page and captioned it, “Love you now and always, Helen,” but that has done little to help.

Mirren was said to be another individual who Hardy had clashed with on the show, with multiple reports claiming she was frustrated with his on-set behavior and “arrogance.”

A source who spoke with The Hollywood Reporter also alleged that Hardy, at one point, refused to leave his trailer, leaving Brosnan and Mirren waiting for hours before filming could proceed.

Mirren’s latest post now seems to be her attempt to shut down the allegations of a feud between her and Hardy.

Guy Ritchie Reportedly Working Hard To Keep Tom Hardy On The Series

The show was co-created by Ronan Bennett and Jez Butterworth and is produced by David Glasser’s 101 Studios, along with MTV Entertainment Studios.

It also has Guy Ritchie as an executive producer who directed several episodes across season 1 and season.

However, it seems Paramount+ is desperate to find common ground with the actor, with Guy Ritchie set to be some form of mediator to ensure that things work out.

“I’m sure Guy is probably pushing David Glasser to make it work,” a production source told Variety. “Guy likes working with Tom.”

Another source told the news outlet that Hardy is “difficult,” but is also a movie star, while others pointed out that tensions could have been calmed earlier than now, but the leaks from insiders claiming he was fired complicated the whole situation.

Tom Hardy’s Exit Would Cost Paramount+ A Whole Lot

It remains to be seen how things turn out and if both parties are able to salvage their working relationship.

However, should Hardy remain insistent on not returning to the show, sources claim it could cost Paramount+ a large sum, as they’ll have to refilm season 2 to explain his absence, mainly because his character is a very essential part of the series.

This could prove a daunting task as filming for the season has since wrapped up, although a concrete premiere date is yet to be announced.

“The role is pivotal to the story, so he can’t just disappear in season three — there has to be some sort of explanation for his absence,” a source told a media outlet. “That means they will have to alter the end of the second series, which has only just been made, and that will cost millions in extra time spent developing, filming, and editing.”

“It’s not clear if Tom will even return to film any new scenes, or whether the producers are just going to have to be incredibly creative in tying up the second series,” they added, noting how, in any case, they’ve “got to start thinking about the overwhelming prospect of delivering series three.”