Tom Hardy has dropped some hints with the guys over at Collider that he has a secret DC project under development with Warner Bros. From the scale he's talking about it sounds like a big-budget marquee project, but apart from that we know little else.
"I actually got something cooking with Warner Bros which is also a comic book it's a DC thing which is kind of...it's really good actually, it contains elements of all kinds of stuff. From Ocean's Eleven to Batman, you can get all the wrappers out and it would be a big, really cool, technicolor, Pulp Fiction...it's a psychological fuckfest, it's absolutely awesome."
Hardy went on to say that it has a Transmetropolitan vibe but is more grounded in reality, and compared it to Michael Mann's Heat. Hardy then went on to discuss the potential for layering the story across multiple platforms, saying that it could be done on both small screen and big.
"It's not even a movie. It's already...it's real estate. It's PRIME real estate that's sitting there right under everybody's nose that no one's really thought about yet. And it goes tv and movie, it's awesome. I can't believe that nobody has even...I know they thought of it but no one has actually blown it into life yet."
As far as guesses as to what this project may be, yours is as good as ours. It was mentioned lately that Hardy was interested in a Punisher remake, but that really doesn't sound anything like what he's describing, as this is a DC project, so we can probably rule that out. If you have any scoop on this one, answers on a postcard please, or at the very least, in the comments below! For now, we'll leave you with this fan mock-up of Hardy as Frank Castle...just in case...
"I actually got something cooking with Warner Bros which is also a comic book it's a DC thing which is kind of...it's really good actually, it contains elements of all kinds of stuff. From Ocean's Eleven to Batman, you can get all the wrappers out and it would be a big, really cool, technicolor, Pulp Fiction...it's a psychological fuckfest, it's absolutely awesome."
Hardy went on to say that it has a Transmetropolitan vibe but is more grounded in reality, and compared it to Michael Mann's Heat. Hardy then went on to discuss the potential for layering the story across multiple platforms, saying that it could be done on both small screen and big.
"It's not even a movie. It's already...it's real estate. It's PRIME real estate that's sitting there right under everybody's nose that no one's really thought about yet. And it goes tv and movie, it's awesome. I can't believe that nobody has even...I know they thought of it but no one has actually blown it into life yet."
As far as guesses as to what this project may be, yours is as good as ours. It was mentioned lately that Hardy was interested in a Punisher remake, but that really doesn't sound anything like what he's describing, as this is a DC project, so we can probably rule that out. If you have any scoop on this one, answers on a postcard please, or at the very least, in the comments below! For now, we'll leave you with this fan mock-up of Hardy as Frank Castle...just in case...
