First rumored over the summer, Tom Hardy appears to be fully on board for what may be his first true leading man gig playing the notorious Al Capone in Cicero, from uber-hot director David Yates(Harry Potter). Envisioned as a trilogy, Cicero would follow the gangster's violent rise to power, and his fall from grace in the post-Prohibition era. While talking to TheDailyMail, Hardy reveals that he and Warner Brothers are already hard at work getting him ready to play the criminal icon....
Hardy: "I’ve been working with Warner Bros, watching their gangster films — the ones with James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart and Edward G. Robinson"
He also mentioned movies like The Public Enemy and Little Caesar as those he's studying up on. Good choices, and if he brings even a fraction of what James Cagney and Edward Robinson did, this could be the role that finally puts him over the top. This being a Warner Brothers flick, there's no guarantee Cicero will even see the light of day, as they've been going over the budgets of all their movies with a scalpel lately. So how much they are willing to invest is going to depend a lot on Hardy's 2012.
Let's face it, a lot of people are expecting Hardy to be a star, but he hasn't exactly lived up to it yet. Bronson and Inception really put people on to him, but his first true leading man test in Warrior turned out to be an epic disappointment at the box office. The Dark Knight Rises will increase his profile dramatically, and the recently moved The Wettest County should also draw a few eyeballs his way. Hardy will spend the bulk of the year shooting the Mad Max flick, Fury Road. Probably the best test for his box office potential will come in February with This Means War, the action comedy he's headlining with Chris Pine and Reese Witherspoon.
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