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There are a LOT of French articles and interviews with Tom out there right now - and I’m working on collecting and translating them. One of them has a piece of news which is absolutely FANTASTIC if true - but I’m also very confused as to why we haven’t heard a thing about this before.

Tom is, according to an article, DIRECTING a film called The Bicycle - which will be produced by Leonardo Dicaprio!

I mean, wow. Can that really be true? Is it perhaps a short film? This is from L’Express (excerpt - the rest is just about why he’s an actor to watch and his background):

An unknown actor on the set of The Reckoning, he slapped the star Paul Bettany, who “spoke badly” of him. Starring role in Bronson he comes to blows with the director Nicolas Winding Refn. “He emphazised his own part too much on a project which I started, but I would work with him again if he asked me, without hesitation.” Too tempestuous to integrate with the theater establishment at the beginning of his career, Tom is now hailed for his seriousness: he lost 12 kilos to play a junkie in a TV movie and gained 12 kilos of muscle for  Warrior.

Warrior comes out this week, with Joel Edgerton and Nick Nolte, you’ll be able to see him in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, adapted from the novel by John le Carré, as the hero of the remake of Mad Max, directed by George Miller, and the “third” Batman from his friend Christopher Nolan for whom he has already played in Inception. He will also direct The Bicycle, produced by … Leonardo DiCaprio. “Tomorrow, the favor of the king will go to someone else,” he said. Nothing is less certain.

(Source: lexpress.fr)

One more news thingy today. Seems Tom has a new project. Here’s an excerpt from an article in NYMAG.com:

Another reason for the lack of clarity about The Stand is that Yates has been developing another project at WB: an Al Capone origin story called Cicero. Vulture now hears exclusively that Tom Hardy has attached himself to the project, which was originally written in the seventies as a TV pilot by Walon Green (the screenwriter of Sam Peckinpah’s masterpiece, The Wild Bunch) but is now being readapted as a film. And possibly more than one: There is talk that, like The Stand, it could be stretched out, with a first film only tracking the gangster up to his rise to the top of the Chicago criminal food chain; his reign and downfall would be in a subsequent film(s). In other words, Yates could be tied up with both franchises for the next ten years: This is a man who clearly likes job security.

But to make Cicero happen with Hardy, Warner Bros. has more things to rearrange. He’s attached to star in the studio’s Mad Max reboot Fury Road, which shoots next spring. Insiders tell Vulture that Yates will be discussing the possibility of shooting Cicero before Hardy has to report for duty on Fury Road.

There’s simply no end to Tom’s busy-ness. :)

I think Tom Hardy is thought of by everyone doing a movie or trying to sell a project right now. Here are the two latest examples:

POMPEII Ridley Scott reckons his new drama will give us fresh insight. ‘The series, based on Robert Harris’s bestselling book of the same name, will get under the skin of what life was like for the residents before Vesuvius erupted,’ says producer Scott. Orlando Bloom and Tom Hardy are among those being linked with the lead role of engineer Marcus Attilius in the US/Europefunded project.

And Adam Ant wants Tom to play him a movie:

As well as touring with his three-men and three-women backing band, Adam has a screenplay in production based on his autobiography, also called Stand And Deliver. “Jude Law could play me, if he put a bit of muscle on,” he says. “Tom Hardy would do a brilliant job. People have suggested Johnny Depp, but he couldn’t handle the violence.

notmyhairitisapalm asked: Here it is!

http://www.tomhardyparty.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=20&pid=8403#top_display_media

Awesome! Now that he’s all famous, maybe someone will be interested in releasing this. Here’s hoping! :)

More Tom-nerdness: it seems Tom was working on Candy Chops for many, many years, in different versions. Seems it wasn’t really a comedy at first, though… In 2003 he said this.

Hardy began work on Get a Grip, a music-oriented feature of his own making. “Get a Grip isn’t a movie like 8Mile at all. It’s actually quite the opposite. It’s a mock documentary about a white rapper. Have you seen a movie called Man Bites Dog? It’s a bit like that. We follow this one guy. It’s a sort of black and white MTV documentary about a white rapper in London. It’s all very unglamorous, and it’s just about the days leading up to his big gig. I play the rapper, but the whole thing is freestyle. We used non-actors and I directed it with my DJ.

It’s kind of a community piece. People that I know – DJs, music industry people, dancers – are all helping me. We’re keeping it in-house and trying to form a group of people, a production company. As our careers grow and develop and the team gets bigger, we can hopefully pick each other up so that, eventually, there will be a time when we can walk into a joint and stand 40-strong. It’s the same type of vibe as what Ewan McGregor and Jude Law have with Natural Nylon. We’re slowly, slowly putting things together, because there’s no longevity in just being an actor.

And I also found here that Lee Ryan from the boy band Blue was supposed to be in Candy Chops. How terribly odd.

I do hope he gets to do this some day, somehow. I keep finding new projects of his that never came to light, he’s SUCH a busy boy. I love that. (Although I was sad to see that Tom was supposed to have been in Benedict Cumberbatch’s film Third Light. I would have love to see that. Or the film where Tom was supposed to play Christopher Marlowe! THAT would have been awesome.)