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Legend is a 2015 British-French biographical crime drama set in London, directed and written by Brian Helgeland. Its cast includes Chazz Palminteri, Christopher Eccleston, Colin Morgan and David Thewlis, with cinematography by Dick Pope, a score by Carter Burwell, and make-up design by Christine Blundell. Tom Hardy served as an executive producer alongside Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner and Brian Oliver, who produced the film for Cross Creek Pictures, StudioCanal and Working Title Films.
Distributed by Universal Pictures and later by Netflix, Legend runs 132 minutes. It was made on a budget of $25 million and took in $42,972,994 at the box office.
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Film · TMDB
7.1Suave, charming and volatile, Reggie Kray and his unstable twin brother Ronnie start to leave their mark on the London underworld in the 1960s. Using violence to get what they want, the siblings orchestrate robberies and murders while running nightclubs and protection rackets. With police Detective Leonard "Nipper" Read hot on their heels, the brothers continue their rapid rise to power and achieve tabloid notoriety.
Cast
- Tom Hardy as Ronald Kray / Reginald Kray
- Emily Browning as Frances Shea
- Christopher Eccleston as Leonard 'Nipper' Read
- David Thewlis as Leslie Payne
- Taron Egerton as Mad Teddy Smith
- Chazz Palminteri as Angelo Bruno
Themes
- gangster
- biography
- based on true story
- twins
- aggressive
- cautionary
- dramatic
- foreboding
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Ratings
IMDb
6.9/10
218,527 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
60%
Metacritic
55/100
- Year
- 2015
- Runtime
- 132 min
- Genres
- Biography, Crime, Drama
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- 6 wins & 12 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Brian Helgeland
- Screenplay by
- Brian Helgeland
- Based on
- The Profession of Violence , (1972 book), by John Pearson
- Produced by
- Tim Bevan Eric Fellner Chris Clark Quentin Curtis Brian Oliver
- Starring
- Tom Hardy Emily Browning David Thewlis Duffy Christopher Eccleston Chazz Palminteri
- Cinematography
- Dick Pope
- Edited by
- Peter McNulty
- Music by
- Carter Burwell
- Production companies
- Cross Creek Pictures StudioCanal Working Title Films Anton Capital Entertainment
- Distributed by
- StudioCanal (International) Universal Pictures (US)
- Release dates
- 3 September 2015 ( 2015-09-03 ) (London) 9 September 2015 ( 2015-09-09 ) (UK) 20 November 2015 ( 2015-11-20 ) (US) 20 January 2016 ( 2016-01-20 ) (France)
- Running time
- 131 minutes
- Countries
- United Kingdom France United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $25 million
- Box office
- $43 million
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- LGBTQ-related film
- Country of origin
- France
- Original language
- English language
- Director
- Brian Helgeland
- Screenwriter
- Brian Helgeland
- Cast member
- Duffy
- Composer
- Carter Burwell
- Producer
- Brian Oliver
- Production company
- Working Title Films
- Cinematographer
- Dick Pope
- Narrative location
- London
- Duration
- 131
- FilmAffinity ID
- 530574
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Image
- Legend Film logo.svg
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- publication date
- 2015-10-08
- distributed by
- Netflix
- title
- Legend
- social media followers
- 1976
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- review score
- 60%
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Encyclopedic overview
Legend is a 2015 biographical gangster film written and directed by Brian Helgeland, adapted from John Pearson's 1972 book The Profession of Violence: The Rise and Fall of the Kray Twins. The film follows the Kray twins' career and relationship together through their convictions for murder and sentencing to life imprisonment in 1969. Tom Hardy plays both Reggie and Ron Kray in a dual role.
The film also stars Emily Browning, David Thewlis and Christopher Eccleston, with Colin Morgan, Chazz Palminteri, Paul Bettany, Tara Fitzgerald, Taron Egerton and Duffy in supporting roles.
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