What I wanted to do was take a character and throw him into that madness that was going on at the time. Knight also discussed his inspirations for creating Hardy's character and said: "In that year, the East India Company had their monopoly taken away by the British crown, so not only did you have conflict between the crown and the biggest multinational conglomerate the world has ever seen, you also had all of these international conflicts as well.
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If he was basing the series on a real historical figure, he wouldn't have had such flexibility.
He explained that the show was originally slated to be set in another period, but the "monopoly" of the East India Company in 1814 led him to pursue that setting. In an interview with Yahoo TV, Taboo co-creator Steven Knight discussed his inspirations for Taboo and why he gravitated to this specific era in history. Yes, the East India Company and the disputed land on the series are real, but the actual plot of the dark FX series is fictional. Given that historical context, you may think that Taboo is based on a true story, but the plight of Tom Hardy's James Delaney was actually created for the TV series. 10, chronicles James Keziah Delaney's return to London from Africa to claim his inheritance, which puts him in conflict with the East India Company.
The series, which premieres on Tuesday, Jan. The new FX series Taboo, however, is not your average period piece.
If asked to imagine a British period piece, one would probably conjure up Elizabeth Bennet taking a turn about the room, the Crawley family concealing a scandal, or even a shivering Dickens character.
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