It looks like we could be set for a massive time jump when the period drama eventually returns. <\/p>
It\u2019s already been more than four years since Tom Hardy\u2019s period drama Taboo aired on BBC One, but it sounds as though ambitious plans are still afoot for a follow-up.<\/p>\n
Hardy\u2019s other commitments \u2013 including his work on the upcoming Venom 2<\/a> \u2013 have significantly delayed the follow-up season but he claims that the show is still \u201creally, really important\u201d to him.<\/p>\n And it looks like the series could go in some crazy new directions when it eventually does return, with Hardy teasing that several ideas were still on the table.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s taken a lot of thinking, because I really enjoyed the first one and I want to be really fulfilled by the second one,\u201d he told Esquire<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re still playing with ideas: you could go linear, a continuation of time, or we could drop prior to London or we could quantum-leap through time! I don\u2019t know whether to go orthodox \u2013 there\u2019s a series of that already written \u2013 but I don\u2019t know if that\u2019s the right way to go.\u201d<\/p> The first series, set in 1814, told the story of James Delaney, an Englishman who returned to London with 14 stolen diamonds following his father\u2019s death, after more than a decade in Africa.<\/p>\n Written by Hardy alongside his father Chips and Peaky Blinders<\/a> creator Steven Knight, the series explored the corruption of 19th century London from the perspective of the Delaney family \u2013 but it looks like we could be set for a change of scenery in season two.<\/p>\n \u201cIn my head I was thinking, \u2018Let\u2019s say they get to America, they get to Canada, fast-forward to 1968, the Tet Offensive, the Vietnam War, look at the CIA, the Viet Cong, the French in Saigon\u2026.\u201d he said. \u201cTake the Delaney family tree out in the jungle, and recreate the same family dynamics that were happening in London but with new people, thinking about how history and corruption repeats itself.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s still Taboo, it\u2019s still period, but it\u2019s the \u201960s,\u201d he added. \u201cThere\u2019s something fun about that. Or do we go back to the 1800s? The Napoleonic Wars? The American War of Independence?\u2019 But nothing\u2019s crossed my heart and mind and desk where I\u2019ve gone \u2018That\u2019s it!\u2019 so I\u2019m hanging fire.\u201d<\/p>\n Whatever avenue Hardy eventually decides on, it seems safe to say that Taboo season two can\u2019t come soon enough.<\/p>\n It looks like we could be set for a massive time jump when the period drama eventually returns. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":3016,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/08\/tom-hardy-considering-dramatic-new-direction-for-taboo-season-2-as-he-reveals-one-version-is-already-written.jpg",2000,1334,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/08\/tom-hardy-considering-dramatic-new-direction-for-taboo-season-2-as-he-reveals-one-version-is-already-written-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/08\/tom-hardy-considering-dramatic-new-direction-for-taboo-season-2-as-he-reveals-one-version-is-already-written-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/08\/tom-hardy-considering-dramatic-new-direction-for-taboo-season-2-as-he-reveals-one-version-is-already-written-768x512.jpg",768,512,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/08\/tom-hardy-considering-dramatic-new-direction-for-taboo-season-2-as-he-reveals-one-version-is-already-written-1024x683.jpg",800,534,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/08\/tom-hardy-considering-dramatic-new-direction-for-taboo-season-2-as-he-reveals-one-version-is-already-written-1536x1025.jpg",1536,1025,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/08\/tom-hardy-considering-dramatic-new-direction-for-taboo-season-2-as-he-reveals-one-version-is-already-written.jpg",2000,1334,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"It looks like we could be set for a massive time jump when the period drama eventually returns.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/3015"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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