Tom Hardy to star as Al Capone in Josh Trank's 'Fonzo'

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By Darian Scalamoni

            Many have wondered what was next in line for Josh Trank following his epic collapse of a blockbuster, Fantastic Four. The reboot of the popular comic-book team was a failure in every sense of the word critically and cinematically. A combination of studio interference and the bad behavior that was reported cost him and he tanked a whole superhero franchise with one movie. Now, The Playlist reports that he finally has another project on the horizon, something incredibly different, a movie about Al Capone starring Tom Hardy.

            Hardy has signed up to play Capone in the film set to be helmed by Trank titled, Fonzo. The movie will take a unique focus as it shows Capone at age 47 following nearly a decade of being imprisoned as dementia begins to set in and deteriorate the mind of the once feared gangster. This sounds like a great project not only for Trank but also for Tom Hardy to star. He’s been waiting to play Capone for a while and was prepping to play him in a movie called Cicero that is still in development and was brewing at Warner Bros. with David Yates attached to direct.

            Trank is best known not only for Fantastic Four but was once incredibly wanted as a filmmaker following his found-footage thriller, Chronicle that starred Dane DeHaan and Michael B. Jordan. After FF, he was set to direct a Star Wars anthology film but was since dropped because of his rumored behavior on set.

            Hardy has plenty of projects upcoming including starring in Christopher Nolan’s WWII film, Dunkirk as well as a new FX drama, Taboo. Also, he is set to play the British explorer, Ernest Shackleton in a biopic and reprise his role as Max Rockatansky in the sequel to the popular Mad Max franchise in Mad Max: The Wasteland.