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Tom & John Hillcoat together again?


Director John Hillcoat’s next film is apparently called 999 (or Triple Nine) and according to a leaked document concerning the sales and status of a lot of forthcoming films, Tom is part of the cast. Or considered for the cast, I don’t know. The leak is mentioned here, so it’s real, but might be out of date (seems it might be from Jan-Feb). Still, Tom & Benicio del Toro sounds brilliant. 

999

Director: JOHN HILLCOAT

ACTIVE HIGH-PRIORITY

Cast: Tom Hardy, Benicio del Toro, maybe Chris Hemsworth

The story line has been described by Mr Hillcoat in two different ways:

1. It revolves around a family of Jewish Russian mobsters, where the real power resides in the hands of a woman whose partner is imprisoned in a Russian gulag. Hillcoat describes it as a contemporary look at “where criminals are at right now, from the Jewish Russian mob to the cartels in the street.”

2. Triple Nine is financed and we’re trying to put a cast together, but it’s very ambitious and it’s a big ensemble. Trying to work with people’s schedules is exponentially harder than with your typical two-hander. It’s a contemporary crime thriller that looks at the crime landscape from the top right down to the bottom.

[I suggest it might be a little like Traffic] A little bit like Traffic, though that was specific to the parallel story between Mexico and the impact in America. And that was focusing in on two individuals and Triple Nine does not, it’s more of a tapestry. There is a protagonist, though the lines are blurred.

Of course, with Tom’s busy schedule, I have no clue when this would happen…

(Source: stohl.de)

charlidos:

I’ve compiled the bits of film with Tom Hardy in Sergeant Slaughter My Big Brother that didn’t end up in the finished product. Found in a couple of different showreels, so there’s no sound.

It’s such a pity these bits aren’t in the film, I want to know what happened! :(

Reblogging myself here - and referring to my last post. So this footage isn’t from Sergeant Slaughter… but from the trailer/promo called Bin Man which has then went on to become the upcoming film Samarkand. 

In other words, this is a little preview to Samarkand! And we WILL get to know what happens. :)

Turns out, these photos are not really part of Sergeant Slaughter My Big Brother, as I thought before. In fact, they are stills from a trailer/promo Greg Williams & Tom Hardy did called Bin Man. The Bin Man trailer/promo is how they sold Samarkand as a feature film!

I’d seen Bin Man mentioned before, but the clues didn’t fall into place until I saw this site:

We designed, propped, and supplied all art dept personel for this promotional shoot, which went on to be Greg Williams and Tom Hardy project Samarkand.

Still no word on when Samarkand might get filmed, though. But I found a quote from the producer Bobby Panescu:

I met [Tom Hardy] last year at Cannes. He will not only be the lead actor, he’ll also co-produce alongside Greg Williams and myself. It will shoot in England and Qatar. The movie deals with PTSD syndrome (Posttraumatic Stress Disorder). A British SAS special forces soldier returns from Iraq and develop this syndrome, starting a war alone.

Tom Hardy went to Botswana (and other countries, probably) in January this year to film a documentary. It’s been a little unclear what it’s about and what it’s called. First, it was supposedly what originally was his trip down the river Congo, called Tom Hardy’s African Adventure. It’s also been known as Tom Hardy’s African Conservation.

But the latest info I’ve found on this is from a guy who’s doing the score for the documentary: Nick Harvey. According to him, this project is now called Tom Hardy’s War on Poaching (and will be shown on UK’s ITV1). This intrigues me and makes me wonder if it’s a prelude to those two planned anti-poaching films (with Leonardo Dicaprio and Tobey Maquire), or if it’s instead of them… I’m hoping for the former! And I’m guessing this documentary will be the next project we’ll see from Tom - I’m guessing it’ll be aired this year.

(Photos are thanks to tomhardy.org)

You seem to want to work with Tom Hardy, you have two films coming up.  
Yes, Tom Hardy is an incredible actor. I saw him in the movie “Wuthering Heights” six years ago, and I was just so blown away by him and his energy and charisma, he’s like nobody else. I met him two years ago. We connected from the first minutes, and we’ve been trying to do something to do together. I read something I like: ‘What about this?’ We’re both busy doing other things. Then I read “Animal Rescue” (based on the Dennis Lehane Boston noir, Fox Searchlight), and he read it, we both loved it. We are prepping, we start on Monday, in Brooklyn with “Bullhead“‘s amazing Michael Roskam and Matthias Schoenaerts.

Will you also star with Hardy in Daniel Espinosa’s ‘Child 44,’ to shoot in Budapest this summer?
 Yes, that was sent to both of us: ‘This might be it, we’ll do it together.’ 

- Noomi Rapace on why she wants to work with Tom. (And I do think Child 44 will be filmed in Prague. Or maybe both Prague and Budapest. There was an article about how Ridley Scott is going to spend a LOT of money in The Czech Republic because of this film…)

(Source: blogs.indiewire.com)

Anonymous asked: hey im a massive fan of this website and tom hardy! i just wanted to ask if you know if tom is shooting locke? i mean it says he is filming it on IMDB but i havent seen any set photos and he is the only person on the cast list. i no he is shooting animal rescue in a couple of weeks but i just wanted to know because i think that locke sounds really good :) thank you Mesdaq Madni you can find me on facebook and twitter :)

Well, I’m not sure about Locke. But I’ve seen a few people the past week or so saying they’ve seen Tom filming around London. It was supposed to be a short shoot, so it could be.

I think Tom’s gone to NYC and Brooklyn now to film Animal Rescue. Noomi Rapace mentioned in an interview a couple of days ago that she was going to go to NYC to start filming the day after. 

Here’s what she said:

I live in London but I’m going to be in New York for two months now because I’m doing a movie there. After that, I’m doing a movie in Prague so I’m not going be home until August. The movie I’m doing in New York is called “Animal Rescue.” It’s with Tom Hardy and a fantastic Belgian filmmaker called Michael Roskam, who did “Bullhead.” Fantastic movie. And it’s an amazing script by Dennis Lehane. I’m leaving L.A. to start that tomorrow.


The film in Prague should be Child 44! So that’s what Tom’s doing too for the next 5 months. :)

I only just now realised something about this second part of Sergeant Slaughter My Big Brother (directed by Greg Williams), depicted in the photos above, This part of the short film wasn’t included in the final edit, and it struck me that it’s most likely because of the Samarkand project.

Samarkand is a story about a man returning to the UK from a war zone in the Middle East, with PTSD. And SSMBB was about a guy who joined the foreign legion and who - in the part we haven’t seen - returned looking a LOT worse for wear. Maybe homeless, definitely psychologically damaged.

My theory is that they left this out from the short film, in order to make it into a feature film, i.e. Samarkand. :)

Another project for Tom: Samarkand. This one isn’t new, though, since was mentioned when Tom made his trip to Afghanistan last year with Olly Williams - brother of Greg Williams (who took all these amazing photos of Tom). I’m glad it’s definitely in the works! It will be Greg’s first feature film.

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 the Middle East. Suffering from PTSD, he has a most difficult time reintegrating from the battlefield back into society. The script was written by Greg and Olly Williams, brothers who developed the picture with Hardy and Solar Pictures’ Bobby Paunescu.

(Source: deadline.com)

Latest news from IndieWire is that Belgian actor Matthias Schoenaerts is joining Tom & Noomi in Animal Rescue, the film shooting this spring in New York. It’s looking better and better, this film. I’ve loved Matthias in what I’ve seen (Rust & Bone, Bullhead), and he’s been compared to Tom, so this will be interesting indeed. 

We chatted with Schoenaerts yesterday afternoon, just before the Césars, and he shared with us what his plans for the New Year will be. “I’ll be shooting in New York with Michael Roskam, we’re shooting his first American feature film,” Schoenaerts said. “I have a supporting role in that, and I really look forward to it.” The movie in question is “Animal Rescue,” which locked up Tom Hardy and Noomi Rapace in the lead roles last month, with the Fox Searchlight production gearing up for a spring shoot.

Based on a short story by Dennis Lehane (“Mystic River,” “Gone Baby Gone”), the story follows a lonely New York bartender, caught in the midst of a bad heist and a killing, who rescues a puppy from a garbage can and becomes the target of the dog’s abusive and mentally unstable former owner. Rapace will play Nadia, who has a scar across her neck, who crosses paths with the bartender. There’s no word just yet on Schoenaerts’ part, but with the actor already making an impression on arthouse screens, this will undoubtedly bring his immense skills to a more mainstream crowd.

(Source: blogs.indiewire.com)

According to a Swedish paper, interviewing Daniel Espinosa who will be directing Child 44, not only is Tom Hardy & Noomi Rapace starring in the upcoming film, but also Gary Oldman! Can this be true? That would be absolutely brilliant! And just proves that Tom & Gary simply MUST work together at all time. *g*

Right now  [Daniel Espinosa] is in Sweden, preparing the filming of Child 44 starring Noomi Rapace, Gary Oldman and Tom Hardy. Producer is Ridley Scott.

(Source: aftonbladet.se)

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