The film follows the life of this prisoner, considered Britain's most violent criminal, who has been responsible for a dozen or so cases of hostage taking while incarcerated. The film stars Tom Hardy as Michael Peterson, known from 1987 as Charles Bronson.
Bronson is a 2008 British biographical black comedy prison film directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, based on a script written by Refn and Brock Norman Brock.