TOM HARDY STARRING IN NEW FX SERIES, TABOO

IGN
Matt Fowler



FX has ordered Taboo, a drama series from award-winning producer Ridley Scott (Alien, Blade Runner, Gladiator), Academy Award-nominated writer Steven Knight (Locke) and award-winning actor/producer Tom Hardy - who will also star.

Scott Free Films and Hardy Son & Baker will commence production on the eight-episode first season mid-to-late 2015 in the U.K., with the series tentatively slated to debut in mid-2016. The series is being produced for BBC One in the U.K., with Sonar Entertainment distributing internationally.

Set in 1813, Taboo is based on an original story by Hardy and his father, Chips Hardy. In Taboo, Hardy plays the lead role of “James Keziah Delaney,” a rogue adventurer who returns from Africa with 14 ill-gotten diamonds to seek vengeance after the death of his father. Refusing to sell the family business to the East India Company, he sets out to build his own trade and shipping empire and finds himself playing a very dangerous game.

Taboo was created by Knight (Dirty Pretty Things, Eastern Promises, Peaky Blinders), who most recently wrote and directed the feature film Locke starring Hardy. Scott and Hardy will both serve as executive producers on Taboo.

“We are privileged to have landed Taboo and to work with this exceptional team led by Ridley, Tom and Steven,” said Eric Schrier, President of Original Programming, FX Networks and FX Productions. “Tom’s passion for this project, from conceiving the original idea with his father to portraying James Delaney, promises to infuse this epic story with great personal passion and credibility.



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Sons of Anarchy Season 7 SPOILER: **** is Alive in Episode 11 as Series Finale Hasn’t Been Filmed Yet

EPOCH TIMES
By Zachary Stieber, Epoch Times | October 6, 2014



Nero is one of the characters still alive in episode 11 of season 7, Jimmy Smits has confirmed.

The death rumors have been rampant about the finale season of the hit FX show, but apparently Nero stays alive for at least most of the season.

Smits didn’t reveal whether characters most subject to those rumors, such as Gemma and Juice, will still be alive.

The revelation that filming is happening on episode 11 means that the series finale hasn’t been filmed yet.

Smits told Yahoo that he still doesn’t know exactly how the series is going to end. “We’re all very excited to know,” the actor said. “You think the obvious people would be Katey [Sagal] and Charlie [Hunnam]. [But] they’re in the dark, too, I can say with pretty good accuracy, in terms of what exactly happens — how we close up shop.”

Smits also said that Nero has mixed feelings about his association with Gemma, and Jax, with a reference to how Gemma joked that Nero probably regretted buying her that drink. “Definitely he goes through the gamut of all of those feelings [such as regret], but love sometimes can trump a lot of things. People find themselves doing things that they never thought they would be involved with.

Because of the ticker that he’s got — both he and Gemma have had heart issues — they got something going on that’s more profound than any other stuff,” Smits said. “The feeling of not belonging to a family and then belonging, loyalty, or on the flip side, what happens when you feel that you’ve given so much of your soul to something and then there’s the sense of betrayal … that’s the thin line between love and hate. It’s no joke.”



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Charlie Hunnam Reflects on His 'Sons of Anarchy' Ride at Final Premiere

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
11:40 AM PST 09/08/2014 by Rebecca Ford

Charlie Hunnam, Katey Sagal and Kurt Sutter

"It was like going to an Ivy League school with Kurt Sutter being the mad professor"

It was the beginning of the end on Saturday night ,when the stars of FX's hit show Sons of Anarchy gathered for the final season premiere party in Hollywood.

The motorcycle drama will air its seventh and final season beginning on Sept. 9, but the stars of the show — including Charlie Hunnam, Katey Sagal, Theo Rossi and Kim Coates — haven't quite come to grips with the fact that the show is ending its long run.

"We're still in the middle of it," said Rossi of the show, which is currently shooting episode nine. "I think in December, when it's stops airing, that's when I'll realize it's over. But there have been little things that have happened that make me realize we're near the end."

Rossi, who has been on Sons of Anarchy since season one, says he grew up on the show. "My entire life has changed," he said at the premier at the TCL Chinese Theater. "I've become a different person, a better actor. I've learned to produce, being surrounded by people like [showrunner] Kurt [Sutter] and [executive producer] Paris Barclay. I've become a better human being, gotten involved with seven or eight charities."

Rossi wasn't the only actor reflecting on what the show has done for him as an actor. Hunnam, who stars as Jax, the leader of the motorcycle gang, says he had to get past some very tough struggles in the early seasons of the show.

"The first season for me was a total write-off in terms of acting because I was completely consumed with trying to do the accent, which I'd never done before," he told THR. "It really contained me and controlled me so that I wasn't free to make the moves I wanted to make as an actor. By midway through season two, I think I got that under control."

"I think I'm a much better actor than I was at the beginning of the show," he added. "It was like going to an Ivy League school with Kurt Sutter being the mad professor that pushes us all to do our best work. Now I feel like I'm graduating with the confidence of that education, and I'm excited to go make some films."

Hunnam, who starred in Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim, will next be seen in Crimson Peak and recently signed on to play King Arthur in Guy Ritchie's upcoming film.


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‘Sons of Anarchy' spoilers: More on Charlie Hunnam’s Jax, ‘Black Widower’

CARTERMATT
August 11, 2014



FX has just unveiled some of the first details regarding the “Sons of Anarchy” season 7 premiere, and there are two adjectives that we can use to describe them: Short, and effective. It doesn’t give you anything more than what you need to know, and that is perfectly fine with us given how excited we are right now.

Let us start here first of all with the title of “Black Widower,” and just how awesome that is in itself. Sometimes showrunner Kurt Sutter goes obscure with his titles, or chooses them from another language in a way that makes this show feel like T.S. Eliot. This one is easy to decipher: Jax Teller is alone and without Tara, he is going to go down an epic path of revenge. It’s a nice little twist on the common Black Widow motif, and it is certainly appropriate.

FX never reveals much in the way of a synopsis for this show … and this time is no exception:

“In the wake of Tara’s death, Jax makes vengeance a club priority.”

Surely, you knew this to be true already, thanks mostly to everything that you have probably seen and heard from Sutter and others. Kurt wrote this episode, and it is directed by none other that executive producer and frequent director Paris Barclay, who has a habit of being at the helm for premieres.


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'Sons of Anarchy' Season 7 Premiere & Spoilers: No Happy Ending but Redemption for Series Ending Says Maggie Siff

LATINOS POST
By Rizza Sta. Ana (media@latinospost.com) | First Posted: Jun 25, 2014 06:54 AM EDT



Actress Maggie Siff has a lot to thank for as she recently rang her 40th birthday on June 21st, International Business Times said. Apart from the fact that her character, Dr. Tara Knowles in the hit FX series "Sons of Anarchy," earned her a newfound fame on television, the brunette will currently take time to enjoy the series in its final season as a fan, and a new mom at that.

Siff's character, who was killed off by Katie Sagal's matriarch role in the previous season's cliffhanger, was grateful for the fact that she can sit back and not care in the world about working as she will be busy caring for her newborn baby Lucy. When she was asked about whether anyone in the show would have a happy ending in the final season, she told ZapIt.com in an interview that she has not bothered to read the script for the final season.

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"It's an interesting question. It's hard to imagine 'Sons of Anarchy' ending happily but I can imagine some kind of redemption for some people along the way, maybe," she said. 

If she is referring to redemption for her character's death at the hands of her husband's mother Gemma, which is played to delicious consistency by Sagal, then it would be a nice parting gift to fans, especially those who have sympathized with Siff's character in the previous season. IBTimes said, in Season Six, Tara had to fake both a pregnancy and a miscarriage just to keep her family away from SAMCRO and Charming. However, the morally-compromised doctor was not able to carry out her plans when she was found dead in a kitchen sink with a carving fork in her head.

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Martin Freeman: The Shocking ‘Fargo’ Finale: Creator Noah Hawley Breaks Down the Epic Bloodbath (SPOILERS)

THE DAILY BEAST
ByKEVIN FALLON

FX’s pitch-perfect 10-episode TV adaptation of ‘Fargo’ came to a bloody conclusion Tuesday. The show’s creator and writer, Noah Hawley, breaks down the brilliant finale.

Well, there was no wood chipper.

But you betcha that the explosive finale of FX’s Fargo limited series wasn’t lacking in spewed blood, comeuppance, and the kind of understated intensity that’s made the risky adaptation of the Coen Brothers film classic at once menacing and suspenseful, pulpy and fun, and—in turn—cable’s must-watch drama of this past spring.

The high-octane finale featured retribution, surprising acts of heroism, expected deaths in unexpected fashions, and even a snowmobile chase scene. (WARNING: Stop reading here if you have not seen Tuesday night’s Fargo finale. SPOILERS lie ahead.)

We get what appears to be a climax about halfway through the episode when Billy Bob Thornton’s hitman Lorne Malvo and Martin Freeman’s in-over-his-head insurance salesman turned prime suspect Lester Nygaard finally reunite. Whether you considered them heroes, villains, antiheroes, protagonists, or antagonists depended on the episode and, frankly, your mood. 

Regardless, that their reunion ended so unexpectedly was satisfying given how atypical the season-long cat-and-mouse chase between the two characters was—they started out strangers, became complicit partners in crime, and, eventually, enemies in their own right. At the end of the adrenaline-packed scene, they both end up getting away.

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Sons of Anarchy: Charlie Hunnam Arrives On Set On A Motorcycle

 JUST JARED



Charlie Hunnam rides his motorcycle to the set of his hit show Sons of Anarchy on Wednesday afternoon (June 4) in Los Angeles.

The 34-year-old actor is currently hard at work on the seventh and final season of the FX series and it was just announced recently that rocker Marilyn Manson is going to be joining the cast!

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Martin Freeman, Benedict Cumberbatch compete against each other for Critics Choice Awards

LOS ANGELES TIMES
MEREDITH BLAKE
May 28, 2014

BEST ACTOR IN A MOVIE OR MINI-SERIES

David Bradley, "An Adventure in Space and Time" (BBC America)

Benedict Cumberbatch, "Sherlock: His Last Vow" (PBS)

Chiwetel Ejiofor, "Dancing on the Edge" (Starz)

Martin Freeman, "Fargo" (FX)

Mark Ruffalo, "The Normal Heart" (HBO)

Billy Bob Thornton, "Fargo" (FX)

The Broadcast Television Journalists Assn. announced nominations for the 4th Annual Critics' Choice Television Awards on Wednesday. "Fargo," "Masters of Sex," "The Good Wife," "The Big Bang Theory" and "The Normal Heart" were the most-nominated programs of the year, with five nods apiece.

Other programs picking up multiple nominations include "Orange Is the New Black," "Sherlock: His Last Vow," "The Americans" and "Breaking Bad."

On the strength of the limited series "Fargo," adapted from the Coen brothers' 1996 movie, the offbeat comedy "Louie" and the Cold War drama "The Americans," FX has the most nominations of any network. It is followed closely by awards heavyweight HBO (18), which scored nods for the film adaptation of Larry Kramer's play "The Normal Heart" as well as fantasy epic "Game of Thrones," political satire "Veep," Brooklyn-set "Girls," tech-world comedy "Silicon Valley" and gay drama series "Looking."


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(video) Martin Freeman and Billy Bob Thornton in the first seven minutes of ‘Fargo’

HERO FIX
By Kevin Melrose, Comic Book Resources   Saturday, Apr 5, 2014 3:02 PM



CBR) If, despite the stellar cast, you’re still skeptical of "Fargo," the upcoming television adaptation of Joel and Ethan Coen’s acclaimed 1996 film, then FX may have something that will ease your mind: the first seven minutes of the series.

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Teaser trailers for Fargo TV series, starring Billy Bob Thornton, Martin Freeman and Oliver Platt in stellar comic cast

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By CANDACE SUTTON
PUBLISHED: 02:05 EST, 17 March 2014 | UPDATED: 12:42 EST, 17 March 2014



Two men struggle with a sack out on a windswept frozen lake until one protests, in deaf sign language, that the hole in the ice is too small, and the other grasps the leg of the body protruding from the bag and signs, 'guy's too fat'.

The solution? Get a chainsaw.

A truck rumbles along a frozen highway, and as it passes an icy breeze loosens the snow on the side bank to reveal a pair of human nostrils protruding from the drift.

Soothing piped music is playing as a man pushing a shopping trolley along the aisle of a hardware store throws in his purchases: an axe, duct tape, a crow bar, a hunting knife, boxes of ammunition, and a rifle bag.

The Coens acted as producers of the new ten-episode TV series, which was developed by screenwriter Noah Hawley (Bones),and stars Martin Freeman as Lester Nygaard, a man who has his life drastically changed when he encounters a mysterious man who arrives in town.

Billy Bob Thornton, a Coen brothers favourite, plays Lorne Malvo, a boastful and manipulative crook who FBI agents Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele are obsessed with tracking down.

In one of the teasers, the scene where the 'fishermen' who speak sign language as they attempt to stuff a body down an ice hole, would seem to reference the famous scene in the original film when Marge happens upon one of the hit men feeding the body of the other into a woodchipper.

In the FX spin-off, Freeman as Nygaard plays a henpecked insurance salesman who is based loosely on the Macy role.

The series also stars Oliver Platt (The Big C) and Bob Odenkirk (‘Better Call Saul’ in Breaking Bad), Kate Walsh (Greys Anatomy), and tom Hank's son Colin Hanks (Mad Men, Orange County and Parkland). 

The dark humour and Midwest setting remains, but the series has an entirely new plot. It was filmed in Canada and premiers in the US on April 15.

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‘Sherlock’ Star Martin Freeman Joins FX’s ‘Fargo’

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September 26th, 2013
Blair Marnell

One of the reasons that producing “Sherlock” is so difficult is that its stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman are heavily in demand for movies. However, Freeman has just signed up for a new TV miniseries… it just won’t be on British television.

Freeman has been cast as the co-lead of FX’s “Fargo” miniseries, opposite Billy Bob Thornton. The new ten episode miniseries is inspired by Joel and Ethan Coen’s Fargo feature film; with the Coen brothers on board the miniseries as executive producers.

The central character will be Freeman’s Lester Nygaard, “a small town insurance salesman henpecked by his wife, whose life is changed when a mysterious stranger, Lorne Malvo (Thornton), comes to town.”

Reportedly the “Fargo” miniseries will feature brand new characters and a new case while maintaining the original setting. That said, Freeman’s character sounds very similar to the one played by William H. Macy in the Fargo feature film.


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RICHARD ARMITAGE WANTS TO ACT IN A FILM WITHOUT SPECIAL EFFECTS (FAN SHARE) BY: ELIZABETH DARRELL

After spending months and months acting opposite a green screen, it makes sense that actors woud get tired of it and want to act opposite real people in real settings. Richard Armitage, who plays Thorin Oakenshield in the Hobbit films, was recently interviewed by the Independent and spoke of his desire to act in movies without any special effects.

He said, "I've spent the past two years in a special FX environment for The Hobbit. I also need to find something where I'm not fighting or inflicting violence on someone, as a lot of the roles I've had, such as Lucas North in Spooks and Guy of Gisborne in Robin Hood, have involved that. I don't know why that's been the case!"

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