Tom Hardy's career is certainly on the rise. Sure he's be acting for over a decade, beginning with a pair of credits in the war genre (Band of Brothers and Black Hawk Down), but with Inception, Warrior and Tinker Tailor Solider Spy already in his back pocket and This Means War (opposite Chris Pine and Reese Witherspoon), Wettest County (opposite Guy Pearce and Shia LaBeouf) and that little Christopher Nolan Batman movie hitting theaters this year, what's next for Mr. Hardy?
We know he'll play infamous gangster, Al Capone, once he's finished filming Mad Max: Fury Road, the fourth movie in the Mad Max franchise that co-stars Charlize Theron.
Harry Potter director David Yates will direct Hardy in Cicero, n Capone biopic of sorts. Not much has been revealed about the movie until now, when Hardy spoke with UK news site Mail Online.
"I've been working with Warner Bros., watching their gangster films – the ones with James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart and Edward G. Robinson."
He named The Petrified Forest, The Public Enemy and Little Caesar as examples.
"It's interesting to get them, and a bit of Capone, into the bloodstream. The idea isn't to remake those films but to get a flavor of them as we explore Capone's career as a racketeer."
The movie is still in the pre-planning stage, with Hardy adding, "The idea at the moment is of doing a trilogy of films, but nothing is set. Everyone is just talking."
Would you be interested in seeing three movies about Al Capone? Not even the most beloved of gangster movies (The Godfather) could pull off a trilogy.
