Tom Hardy To Play Al Capone In New Movie ‘Fonzo’ From Josh Trank

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Tom Hardy To Play Al Capone In New Movie ‘Fonzo’ From Josh Trank

Tom Hardy is attached to play all-time American gangster Al Capone in Fonzo, a new project written and to be directed by Josh Trank. Russell Ackerman and John Schoenfelder of Addictive Pictures and Lawrence Bender are producing the pic, which centers on Capone in the final days of his life. The real-life Capone died in 1947 at age 48.

CAA and WME Global are repping U.S. rights and Bloom is selling international at the upcoming American Film Market.

The pic, now in prepoduction centers on Alfonse Capone, the ruthless businessman and bootlegger who ruled Chicago with an iron fist before being famously taken down by Eliot Ness. After nearly a decade of imprisonment, dementia rots his mind and his past becomes present as harrowing memories of his violent and brutal origins melt into his waking life.

Trank most recently directed Fantastic Four at Fox after scoring with his debut feature Chronicle. Hardy is next up in Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk and Taboo, the FX/BBC One eight-part series produced by Ridley Scott due in 2017.

Trank is repped by WME, Management 360 and attorney Mitch Smelkinson. Hardy is with CAA and United Agents in the UK.

http://deadline.com/2016/10/tom-hardy-al-capone-movie-fonzo-josh-trank-1201845089/

 

[Black Narcissus]

So much for fanboys claiming Trank would never work with good talent again.

lol

 

[brandeezy89]

Josh has survived the Blacklist

 

[Arachnerd]

Yes to Tom Hardy as Capone.

Ehhhh to Josh Trank directing. Although Fan4stic was not fully his fault, so I'll give him a chance with this.

 

[Boom]

So I guess David Yates' Cicero is dead.

 

[Neno_Kos]

everybody deserves second chance, but josh trank chance come too soon for me to find it deserving.

 

[psylockolussus]

Get that film going, Josh Trank! And maybe we will see the original cut of Fant4stic somedayif it is another masterpiece like Chronicle!

 

[Consona]

So much for fanboys claiming Trank would never work with good talent again.

lol

 

[Sawyer]

Like I'm not attracted to Capone enough already.

 

[Loden Greatstorm]

Now this should be good!

 

[NotSoLongAgo]

Get that film going, Josh Trank! And maybe we will see the original cut of Fant4stic somedayif it is another masterpiece like Chronicle!

Ahh, the magical trank cut. I wonder if this movie will have one too?

 

[dude stannis]

Well that's a lucky shot, hope he doesn't blow it.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

Josh Trank got a job. I was wondering when that would happen. Wonder what the budget will be?

BTW, there is no good cut of Fantastic Four. Anyone who thinks so is deluding themselves.

 

[Guts]

The best Trank can do is to hope this movie won't be the thing nobody wanted.

 

[Kyle]

Ahh, the magical trank cut. I wonder if this movie will have one too?

After what FOX did to Daredevil, it wouldn't surprise me. That director's cut took YEARS to come out. Here the most glaring thing is the movie is literally cut in half. The first half was fantastic. The second half was the worst pile of dog crap I've ever seen. Unsure which half Trank is responsible for or if he filmed it in order and shot the second half while inebriated, but that's why that movie is so hard for me to watch - the beginning is promising, then it turns on you. It's like if Harvey Two-Face made a film, Harvey made the first part and Two-Face made the second to torture you.

 

[dude stannis]

I think the difference is Fantastic Four got destroyed during if not before filming. What the film would've been is anyone's guess. I haven't seen Chronicle, but if Joe Carnahan is singing the guy's praises and Tom Hardy is willing to work with him after the whole debacle, then I certainly don't wish ill on the guy.

 

[Alex Murphy]

I think the difference is Fantastic Four got destroyed during if not before filming. What the film would've been is anyone's guess. I haven't seen Chronicle, but if Joe Carnahan is singing the guy's praises and Tom Hardy is willing to work with him after the whole debacle, then I certainly don't wish ill on the guy.

Correct that very soon.

 

[dude stannis]

Correct that very soon.

Sooner than you think.

 

[Zarex]

The problem was not with Trank or FOX alone but the fact that no one involved in the production had any interest in making a Fantastic Four film. He proved he had talent with Chronicle, so hopefully Josh will take advantage of his second chance.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

The problem was not with Trank or FOX alone but the fact that no one involved in the production had any interest in making a Fantastic Four film. He proved he had talent with Chronicle, so hopefully Josh will take advantage of his second chance.

I agree the root problem was them not wanting to make a real Fantastic Four movie in the first place.

Well Josh Trank bought the bad attention on himself. I hope he learns to stay away from Twitter opening weekend and learns that big budget filmmaking isn't for the faint of heart.

 

[TheVileOne]

So much for fanboys claiming Trank would never work with good talent again.

lol

Should they give him a medal or something?

 

[Black Narcissus]

Should they give him a medal or something?

Nah, just delusional fanboys.

 

[Sawyer]

The problem was not with Trank or FOX alone but the fact that no one involved in the production had any interest in making a Fantastic Four film. He proved he had talent with Chronicle, so hopefully Josh will take advantage of his second chance.

Then it's significantly more on FOX than Trank. They're the gatekeepers of that property, not Trank. If a filmmaker comes in with a pitch for the franchise and it's... whatever that ended up being, I would think it's the studio's job, if they intend to do justice to the property, to say "Thanks, but no thanks." Trank may not have done F4 any favors, but it really starts at the top. And that's taking into account where he was-- and really still is-- in his career. You had a young filmmaker find a certain level of success with a reasonably low-budgeted film, before being thrown into the blockbuster CBM spotlight. I feel like there needs to be a certain level of hours accumulated before looking at someone that green and saying they're your guy. To me, it all boils down to FOX seemingly valuing keeping the rights over actually pushing for quality.

And I really just think fanboys get much too vindictive about filmmakers that they think have slighted them. "Oh, ______ made a bad [enter franchise name here] sequel? Burn his career down." It's just a bit much sometimes. Robert Rodriguez has been thoroughly mediocre to bad for at least a decade now and I'd love to see him really deliver something with that James Cameron movie. Zack Snyder has been playing a very dangerous game with the future of DC characters on film, but I'd rather see him just do other stuff than get locked out entirely.

 

[C. Lee]

Stuff likes this just intensifies the idea that HOLLYWOOD is a weird ****ing place that has no relation with the real world. In what other place can a guy get a high paying job....and then fight with the staff, lose the company hundreds of millions of dollars, bad mouth the company he worked for....and then have another company offer him the same type of job? Replace movie director with MACY's store manager, do the same damn thing, and the next job you hear him getting is flipping burgers at the corner HENRY'S FOOD TRUCK BURGERS.

 

[TheVileOne]

Nah, just delusional fanboys.

It's not the fault of delusional fanboys that the man almost kamikaze'ed his career.