2026 has been a roller-coaster of a year for Tom Hardy fans, who were led to believe that he would not return as Harry Da Souza in the third season of his hit Paramount Plus crime thriller, MobLand. This news came out of nowhere a few months before the Season 2 premiere of the show, when it was reported that Hardy had been fired due to a growing rift between him and one of the show’s leading producers. These rumors were put to bed a few weeks after they surfaced online, when it was confirmed that he would return in MobLand Season 3, which is already in the works. Hardy is the show’s biggest star, so the studio had no choice but to smooth things over and bring him back if the series was going to find continued success.
Tom Hardy has starred in dozens of famous action projects over the years, and while it’s his work on movies like Inception and Mad Max: Fury Road that come to mind first, he’s also featured in some of the most underrated TV shows of all time. In addition to his role as Alfie Solomons in Peaky Blinders, Hardy also starred in the perfect Peaky Blinders replacement show, Taboo, which was even produced by Ridley Scott via his Scott Free producing banner. It’s been almost 10 years since all episodes of Taboo were released, and while fans are still awaiting more news about Season 2, it’s easier to watch the show than ever. All eight episodes of Taboo Season 1 are streaming for free courtesy of Pluto TV and Tubi, but they’re also available to watch on Peacock and the Roku Channel.
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Collider Exclusive · Action Franchise Quiz What Action Series Would You Thrive In? Wick · Fast · Mission · Die Hard
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Four franchises. Four completely different ideas of what a hero is: the assassin with a code, the family that never leaves anyone behind, the man who does his own stunts, and the guy who simply refuses to die. Only one of them runs on your particular brand of trouble. Eight questions will tell you which one you would survive.
🐕Wick
🏁Fast
🧨Mission
🎄Die Hard
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How does a room know you’ve walked into it? Every action hero arrives differently. Some of them arrive before they arrive.
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It turns physical. What does your fighting actually look like? Choreography is character. Yours says something about you.
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Who is standing beside you when it starts? Some franchises are built on a team. Others are built on one person walking in alone.
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It has gone badly wrong. What keeps you upright? Act two exists to find out what you’re actually made of.
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There’s a vehicle. What are you driving, and how? No action franchise has ever survived without a car chase. This one is yours.
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How do you feel about the people giving the orders? There is always an institution. There is rarely a good one.
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Underneath all of it, what are you actually doing this for? The stunts are the reason people come. This is the reason they stay.
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When the credits roll, what do people say about you? Every franchise is really an argument about what makes someone worth watching.
Casting Has Been Completed Your Franchise Is…
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Four action series. One of them is built around exactly the way you
handle pressure, people, and a room that has just gone very quiet. Here is where you would survive
the trilogy, and probably headline it.
John Wick · Chapters 1–4 · 2014–2023
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John Wick
You are precision with a grudge. You don’t posture, you don’t
escalate, and you don’t warn anybody twice. That is exactly why the people who know you are
so careful never to be the reason you start.
The Wick films run on discipline: an underworld with actual etiquette, a hero who
honours every rule of it, and a world that unravels the instant someone breaks one
against him.
You share that quality. You are extraordinarily reasonable right up to the line, and
then completely immovable past it.
Focus, commitment and sheer will. You’d be the one carrying grief through three sequels
and turning it into technique rather than noise.
People wouldn’t call you dangerous. They’d say your name quietly and let that do the
work.
The Fast and the Furious · Fast X · 2001–2023
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Fast & Furious
You understand the thing the whole franchise is secretly about:
the cars are spectacular, but the crew is the point. You collect people, you keep them, and
you’d drive through a building for any one of them.
This series went from street racing to orbit without ever changing its actual subject,
because loyalty scales and plot doesn’t have to.
You have the same instinct. You build a family out of whoever turns up, and then you
defend it past the point of reason.
You’d thrive here because the franchise rewards exactly your strengths: warmth, nerve,
an absolute refusal to leave anyone behind, and a relaxed relationship with physics.
The mission can wait. The barbecue cannot.
Mission: Impossible · The Final Reckoning · 1996–2025
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Mission: Impossible
You over-prepare and then take the dangerous part yourself
anyway. It looks like control, but it’s really responsibility. You have never worked out how
to ask somebody else to carry the risk.
This is the franchise of the plan that collapses on schedule: the team, the mask, the
rooftop, and the one person sprinting flat out because sprinting is all that’s left.
You share that refusal to accept an outcome. Told the odds, you treat them as an
administrative error.
You’d thrive here because these films reward competence and loyalty in equal measure.
The mission matters, but nobody on the team gets left on the wrong side of a door.
Some people delegate the cliff. You have never once been that person.
Die Hard · A Good Day to Die Hard · 1988–2013
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Die Hard
You are not the most trained person in the building, the best
equipped, or the one anybody would have picked. You are simply the one still standing at the
end, which turns out to be the only qualification that matters.
Die Hard invented the modern action hero by making him mortal: outgunned, out-planned,
bleeding, and extremely funny about it.
You share that stubbornness. Adversity doesn’t make you noble, it makes you sarcastic,
and then it makes you unstoppable.
You’d thrive here because these films reward improvisation and nerve over preparation,
and you’ve never had the luxury of preparing anyway.
You didn’t want any of this. You just declined to be the person who let it happen.
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What Is ‘Taboo’ About?
The official synopsis for Taboo, which earned scores of 76% from critics and 91% from audiences on Rotten Tomatoes, reads as follows:
“Adventurer James Keziah Delaney, long believed to be dead, returns home to London from Africa in 1814 in order to inherit his late father’s shipping empire. All is not what it seems, however, as Delaney encounters numerous enemies intent on making his life back in the United Kingdom very difficult. Focused on building a shipping empire to rival the imperious East India Company, Delaney’s other wish to seek vengeance for his father’s death means conspiracy, betrayal and bloodshed are also in the cards. As he works to accomplish that, Delaney must also navigate increasingly complex territories in order to avoid his own death sentence.”
Hardy and Steven Knight have confirmed that a second season of Taboo is in the works, but it’s unclear at this time when it will be released, or if it will even be made. Check out all episodes of Taboo on any of its various streaming platforms and stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of Tom Hardy’s future projects.
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