Legend (2015 film) Legend (2015 film) Legend is a 2015 biographical crime thriller film written and directed by American film director Brian Helgeland. It is adapted from John Pearson's book "The Profession of Violence: The Rise and Fall of the Kray Twins", which deals with the rise and fall of the Kray twins; the relationship that bound them together, and charts their gruesome career to their downfall and imprisonment for life in 1969. This is Helgeland's fifth feature film. Tom Hardy, Emily Browning, David Thewlis and Christopher Eccleston star with Chazz Palminteri, Paul Bettany, Tara Fitzgerald and Taron Egerton as well as singer
John Pearson (author) Legend of the Kray Twins". In 2010 Pearson put up for auction more than 160 previously unseen letters and photographs from the Kray twins. The items sold for £20,780. Another of Pearson's books, "The Gamblers", is an account of the group of gamblers who made up what was known as the Clermont Set, including John Aspinall, James Goldsmith and Lord Lucan. Warner Bros. purchased the film rights to the book in 2006. "The Gamblers" was made into a two-part TV drama, "Lucan", starring Rory Kinnear and Christopher Eccleston, broadcast on ITV1 in December 2013. Pearson's book "Facades" was the first