Throughout his twenty-year movie career, He also featured in Inception (2009), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), and even The Dark Knight Rises (2012), two of which were with Christopher Nolan.

Hardy has now earned a reputation as a leading man, starring in Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) as the titular Max Rockatansky and as both Eddie Brock and Venom in Sony's Venom movies. The actor has also received acting accolades, earning an Academy Award nomination for The Revenant (2015), a Critics' Choice Award for Mad Max: Fury Road, and a Rising Star BAFTA. One of Hardy's most significant critical accomplishments, however, has been ignored for over a decade.

The Warrior Spin-Off Has Been Long-Delayed

It Has Been 14 Years Since Warrior Was Released

Over a decade after Hardy's Hardy's best movies, but a sequel never came to fruition since it failed to reach profitability at the box office.

In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, O'Connor explained what led to the long delay between the movie and its spin-off. Though he described the show as "ionately alive in my bloodstream," several streaming networks have turned away from the project, and the director still cannot explain why. He is continuing to look for a network that can host his Warriors show, so he has no intentions of giving up on the series. Check out his quote below:

When we set it up, it was at Paramount+. We wrote a script, and then, for whatever reason, they decided they wanted to go in a different direction. What happened is all unexplainable to me. But I had a script at this point, and it’s very representative of what the series is going to be. It introduces all the characters except for one. HBO Max then said they wanted to do it, and so we pivoted to HBO Max. And then, for whatever reason, they decided they didn’t want to do it. They were going in a different direction. So I need to find a home, man. Excluding the movie Warrior, if there’s any project I’ve ever had that is so ionately alive in my bloodstream, it’s this TV series. So I’m hoping I find the right home for it.

The DNA of the movie Warrior was two brothers on a collision course to fight each other in the Sparta tournament. So the series is called Warriors because we took that idea for two men and two women. They’re all fighters, but I hook you into their life fights outside of the cage. We’re going to explore their stories as they’re on a collision course to fight each other at Sparta. So that’s the idea, and I hope we can find a home, because I so believe in this show and what it could be. There’s nothing like it on television, so hopefully someone can see what I have in my head.

Our Take On Warriors' Long Delay

It Should Not Come As A Surprise

Unfortunately, it is not entirely surprising that the spin-off is struggling to gain traction, given the box office disappointment of the original 2011 movie. The movie earned just $23 million against a $25 million budget, which is painfully far from profitability. Just as the film failed to draw attention, a show could easily struggle to gain traction among audiences. No matter how critically renowned it is, networks will be understandably reticent to greenlight a spin-off. After all, no streaming platform wants to risk spending on developing a show, only to see it face poor viewership.

If the original movie ever becomes a streaming giant, then a spin-off could be greenlit.

HBO Max and Paramount+ have already turned down the idea of a Warrior show, but other networks could take advantage of the opportunity. Even if they do show some interest, it would still not be a guarantee that this show ever completes development. It has been 14 years since the initial release, so even the initial interest could have faded. If the original movie ever becomes a streaming giant, then a spin-off could be greenlit, but as it stands, the Warrior spin-off is a difficult pitch to make.

Source: THR