Collider has done a good job spreading out their interview session with Tom Hardy as he’s out promoting next week’s new release Mad Max: Fury Road. Last we checked in he gave details on why he had to drop out of David Ayer‘s Suicide Squad along with saying he’d like to star as The Punisher, but now he’s talking about a DC Comics property he’s “cooking with Warner Bros.” but he’s only teasing us, not giving us the entire picture:
It’s really good actually, it contains elements of all kinds of stuff. From Ocean’s Eleven, to Batman, you can get all the wrappers out and it would be a big, really cool, Technicolor, Pulp Fiction… It’s a psychological fuckfest, it’s absolutely awesome. It’s as if you would take “Transmetropolitan” and make it happen, but it’s not that out there it’s something which is much more real world. It could be like Heat, it could be fucking awesome. Let me tell you what it is, try and guess.
Interested?
[amz asin=”B009POHIE8″ size=”small”]”Transmetropolitan” is a comic series created by Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson set in the 23rd century and following a cynical journalist working as an investigative reporter and it sounds rather dark and, as Hardy says, “out there”. But if it’s like that, but isn’t that, what could it be… Hardy elaborates while at the same time giving us nothing:
It’s real estate, it’s PRIME real estate which is sitting there right under everybody’s nose that no one’s really thought about yet and it goes TV and movie, it’s awesome. I can’t believe that nobody has even -I know they thought of it but no one has actually blown life into it yet.
Truthfully, this sounds like something that most likely won’t come to pass. I know that sounds cynical, but we’ve seen studios try and pull this off before, most recently with the adaptation of Stephen King‘s “The Dark Tower” series, but it’s such a big risk that unless there’s a way to do it cheap, I fear a studio would always balk at the prospect of investing so much money.
Then again, if this is as grounded in reality as Hardy suggests, name-checking the likes of Pulp Fiction, Ocean’s Eleven and Heat, perhaps it doesn’t require a ton of visual effects and can be made a little cheaper. Let’s keep our fingers crossed and hopefully Hardy will be asked to elaborate sooner than later.
