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Waiter, Can I Get A Club Sandwich And A Rewrite On This Tom Hardy Film?

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday April 3, 2013 @ 4:23pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Cicero, Tom Hardy, Tom Shepherd, Warner Bros
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s why I still love movies, even though it has been so many years since I moved from the vaudeville beat at Variety to cover the talkies. Nobodies can become somebodies in the blink of an eye and it happens often enough to give anybody with talent a puncher’s chance. Warner Bros has just made a deal with Tom Shepherd to rewrite Cicero. Since this film has Tom Hardy attached to play Al Capone and is a priority studio project, this is a pretty big break for Shepherd. He has been making a living as a waiter, waiting for his writing career to take off.

John Lesher is producing Cicero, and Adam Kassan is exec producing with Leonard Ackerman. It takes a bold new look at the life of an American icon, chronicling the rise of Capone from lowly pimp to the feared gangster called Scarface, who consolidated control over Chicago, avenges the death of his brother, and attempts to protect the safety and innocence of his family.

All this good fortune happened after Shepherd wrote the script Hey, Stella!, which made last year’s Black List. READ MORE »

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Tom Hardy, Solar Pictures Tackle Post Traumatic Stress Disorder With ‘Samarkand’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday February 27, 2013 @ 7:47am PSTTags: Greg Williams, Samarkand, Solar Pictures, Tom Hardy
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE:Tom Hardy has teamed with Solar Pictures to develop Samarkand, a drama that will be directed by Greg Williams and tackles the topical hot button issue of post traumatic stress disorder.

Hardy will portray an SAS soldier returning from operations in … Read More »

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Berlin: IM Global’s Anthem Boards Tom Hardy Thriller ‘Locke’

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Thursday February 7, 2013 @ 5:12am PSTTags: Berlin Film Festival, IM Global, Tom Hardy

Berlin, February 7: IM Global specialty label Anthem will fully finance LOCKE, to be written and directed by Steven Knight (Hummingbird) and starring Tom Hardy (Inception) for Paul Webster, Joe Wright and Guy Heeley’s Shoebox Films.

Based on an original screenplay from Knight (Eastern Promises, Dirty Pretty Things) LOCKE is the story of one man’s life unraveling in a tension-fuelled ninety minute race against time. Ivan Locke has the perfect family, his dream job, and tomorrow should be the crowning moment of his career. But one phone call will force him to make a decision that will put it all on the line.

LOCKE begins production in London, England later this month. Paul Webster and Guy Heeley will produce.

IM Global, Shoebox and Knight previously collaborated on HUMMINGBIRD, to be released by Lionsgate later this year.

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Tom Hardy Teams With ‘Safe House’ Helmer Daniel Espinosa For ‘Child 44′

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday January 30, 2013 @ 12:30pm PSTTags: Big Deals Film, Daniel Espinosa, Tom Hardy
Mike Fleming

BREAKING: Tom Hardy is in talks to star in Child 44, the adaptation of the Tom Rob Smith novel that will be directed by Safe House helmer Daniel Espinosa for Scott Free. Hardy, who wrapped Mad Max: … Read More »

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Tom Hardy In Talks For ‘Animal Rescue’ As Fox Searchlight Eyes Noomi Rapace

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday December 17, 2012 @ 10:49am PSTTags: Big Deals Film, Dennis Lehane, Fox Searchlight, Michael R. Roskam, Noomi Rapace, Tom Hardy
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Fox Searchlight is in final talks with Tom Hardy to star in Animal Rescue, and is offering the female lead to Noomi Rapace. Searchlight … Read More »

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New Regency To Make ‘Splinter Cell’ With Tom Hardy

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday December 5, 2012 @ 2:13pm PSTTags: Big Deals Film, New Regency, Splinter Cell, Tom Hardy
Mike Fleming

Related: Tom Hardy Set For ‘Splinter Cell’ Movie At Ubisoft

Ubisoft® and New Regency announced that they are partnering on the forthcoming Tom Clancy’s™ Splinter Cell® film.

Ubisoft Motion Pictures, the film and television division of Ubisoft, will develop the Splinter Cell movie in close collaboration with New Regency. Ubisoft also recently announced it attached award-winning actor Tom Hardy and up-and-coming screenwriter Eric Warren Singer (“The International”) to the film.

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Tom Hardy Set For ‘Splinter Cell’ Movie At Ubisoft

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday November 14, 2012 @ 12:58pm PSTTags: Big Deals Film, Splinter Cell, Tom Hardy, Ubisoft
Mike Fleming

BREAKING: Tom Hardy has become attached to star in the film based on Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell video game, and Eric Warren Singer has been set to write the script.  The project isn’t set up at a studio yet, but is moving forward with the game universe’s France-based company Ubisoft.

Studios have been vying to make a deal for the franchise, with Warner Bros and Paramount recently rumored to be knocking on the door earlier this summer. Singer, who wrote the thriller The International, also scripted the Black List script American Bullshit, which is being made as an untitled drama that David O Russell is directing with Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper and Jeremy Renner starring.

The original game, revolves around Sam Fisher, a covert operative who so far has been put on six missions covering six installments of the game that has sold 22 million units and spawned several novels. Hardy will play Fisher. After his recent turns in Warrior, The Dark Knight Rises, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Inception, Hardy is on everybody’s most wanted list. He’ll next star in the George Miller-directed Mad Max: Fury Road and is being offered just about every movie these days, it seems.

Related: WME Signs Author Tom Clancy Read More »

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Warner Bros Working On Dual Pics On Animal Poaching And Trafficking

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday October 16, 2012 @ 1:36pm PDTTags: Leonardo DiCaprio, Sheldon Turner, Tobey Maguire, Tom Hardy, Warner Bros
Mike Fleming

Warner Bros is working on not one but two high-profile films about the illegal poaching and trafficking in endangered animals around the world. Both projects are being produced by Tobey Maguire‘s Material Pictures, Leonardo DiCaprio‘s Appian Way and Tom Hardy‘s Executive Options. I don’t know if both of these projects get made, but at a time when Hollywood studios are preoccupied with pretend crises like zombies and vampires, bravo for a major to step up and try to weave in a global problem like ivory trafficking into a drama.

The first project is being written by Up In The Air co-writer Sheldon Turner as a star vehicle for Hardy, based on an idea by the Dark Knight Rises and Warrior star. The untitled film is set in Africa and the aim is for Hardy to play a former Special Forces soldier who signs on with a friend to work in the bush, training rangers to fight off the poachers decimating the rhino and elephant populations in Zimbabwe. The soldier falls in love with the land, and the animals he is trying to save. Given his skill set, this spells bad news for the poachers. Also producing is Dean Baker, who is Hardy’s producing partner, and Paul Grey, along with Hardy, Maguire and DiCaprio. Hardy is working with Turner and producers Jennifer Klein and Dave Bartis on Everest, the Sony film that Doug Liman intends to direct, with Hardy playing British climber George Mallory and his attempts to become the first man to scale Everest and make it back alive.  Read More »

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Tom Hardy Climbing Aboard Doug Liman-Directed ‘Everest’; He’ll Play George Mallory

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday September 24, 2012 @ 4:41pm PDTTags: Doug Liman, Everest, Sheldon Turner, Sony Pictures, Tom Hardy
Mike Fleming

Tom HardyEXCLUSIVE: Tom Hardy is in early talks to star in Everest for Sony Pictures. He will play George Mallory, the climber who tried three times in the 1920s to become the first man to scale the world’s highest mountain. Doug Liman will direct the film after he completes All You Need Is Kill at Warner Bros with Tom Cruise. An adaptation of Jeffrey Archer’s book Paths Of Glory, Everest has been adapted by Sheldon Turner (Up In The Air). Jennifer Klein is producing, and Dave Bartis, Liman’s partner at Hypnotic, will also be a producer. Read More »

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Hot Red Band Trailer: ‘Lawless’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday August 21, 2012 @ 10:48pm PDTTags: Guy Pearce, Jessica Chastain, John Hillcoat, Lawless, Shia LaBeouf, Tom Hardy

The closer it gets, the better it looks. Here’s the R-rated trailer for Lawless — the John Hillcoat-directed Prohibition-Era saga written by Nick Cave and based on Matt Bondurant’s The Wettest County In The World. Tom Hardy, Shia LaBeouf and Jason Clarke are bootlegging brothers. Guy Pearce plays … Read More »

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Paramount Lands Kevin Costner To Rev Jack Ryan And ‘Without Remorse’ Pics

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday August 20, 2012 @ 6:33pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Chris Pine, Jack Ryan, Kevin Costner, Paramount Pictures, Tom Hardy, Without Remorse
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline told you two weeks ago that Paramount was courting Kevin Costner to play a key role opposite Chris Pine in the Kenneth Branagh-directed Jack Ryan film. I’m told that Costner has now accepted and they are working … Read More »

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Hot New Trailer: ‘Lawless’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Saturday July 7, 2012 @ 1:51pm PDTTags: Guy Pearce, Jessica Chastain, Lawless, The Weinstein Company, Tom Hardy

Here’s another trailer for Lawless, the Prohibition-era crime drama directed by John Hillcoat that screened this year at Cannes. Tom Hardy, Shia LaBeouf and Jason Clarke play a trio of bootlegger brothers in The Weinstein Company release that also stars Guy Pearce, Jessica Chastain and … Read More »

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‘Lawless’ Premieres As The Weinstein Company Hijacks The Cannes Red Carpet

By PETE HAMMOND | Saturday May 19, 2012 @ 5:52pm PDTTags: Cannes Film Festival, Guy Pearce, Lawless, Shia LaBeouf, The Sapphires, The Weinstein Company, Tom Hardy
Pete Hammond

It took just four days into the 65th Cannes Film Festival but The Weinstein Company officially took over Saturday scoring both of the key night’s premiere slots at the Grand Theatre Lumiere in the Official Selection and both from Australian directors. … Read More »

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Hot Trailer: Tom Hardy In ‘Lawless’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday April 24, 2012 @ 7:10pm PDTTags: Lawless, The Weinstein Co, Tom Hardy

With buzz already building for Tom Hardy‘s high-profile turn as uber-villain Bane in Warner Bros’ The Dark Knight Rises, the Weinstein Co. today unveiled the trailer for his starring vehicle, Lawless. Joining Hardy in the Depression-era crime drama are Shia LaBoeuf, Guy Pearce, Gary Oldman and Jessica Chastain.

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Fox Delays ‘This Means War’ Release

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Tuesday February 7, 2012 @ 9:50am PSTTags: Chris Pine, Reese Witherspoon, This Means War, Tom Hardy

EXCLUSIVE: Fox is waving the white flag on what is supposed to be a worth-the-price-of-admission movie which in and of itself is a rarity these days. The studio was supposed to open its ‘romantic action comedy’ This Means War on Tuesday … Read More »

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Hot International Trailer: ‘This Means War’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday December 7, 2011 @ 12:29am PSTTags: Chris Pine, McG, Reese Witherspoon, Simon Kinberg, This Means War, Tom Hardy

Chris Pine and Tom Hardy play spies who discover they’re dating the same woman — Reese Witherspoon. The decide to go at each other rather like another 20th Century Fox pairing (we’ll let you guess which one) and “may the best man win.” Occasional hilarity and physical comedy ensue. You … Read More »

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‘Warrior’ Co-Writer Lands Book Deal

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday November 30, 2011 @ 8:42am PSTTags: Anthony Tambakis, Gavin O'Connor, Jackie Gleason, Paul Newman, Renee Zellweger, Tom Hardy, Walter Tevis, Warrior
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Anthony Tambakis, who teamed with Gavin O’Connor and Cliff Dorfman to write the underrated film Warrior, has sold his novel Swimming With Bridgeport Girls to Simon & Schuster for spring 2013 publication. This comes at a time when Tambakis … Read More »

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Tom Hardy & Chris Nolan Speak About Bane

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday November 25, 2011 @ 12:19am PSTTags: Christopher Nolan, Tom Hardy

Tom Hardy speaks for the first time about taking on masked villain Bane in the third Batman installment The Dark Knight Rises. And Christopher Nolan speaks for the first time about Hardy and Bane. The duo gave the interview exclusively to UK’s Empire magazine for a special Batman/Bane edition … Read More »

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Jason Clarke Lands Kathryn Bigelow’s Bin Laden Film; Elite Cast Circling Other Roles

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday November 10, 2011 @ 12:54pm PSTTags: Guy Pearce, Idris Elba, Jason Clarke, Jennifer Ehle, Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Megan Ellison, Osama Bin Laden, Rooney Mara, Tom Hardy
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Jason Clarke is the first actor set for the Kathryn Bigelow-directed drama about the hunt for Osama Bin Laden for Sony Pictures and Megan Ellison’s Annapurna Pictures. An elite group of actors is being courted for the ensemble. I’m … Read More »

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