Tom Hardy And WB Are "Cooking" A Comic Book Adaptation

We recently found out that despite having to drop out of David Ayer's Suicide Squad due to scheduling conflicts, Tom Hardy was still very much interested in starring in yet another film based on a comic, more specifically Marvel's Punisher. Now however, it looks like the actor's bond with DC hasn't exactly faded away.

HARDY: I actually got something cooking with Warner Bros. which is also a comic book, it’s a DC thing which is kind of…

Oh you should really share because I’m not a journalist, no one’s recording this.

HARDY: 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.

I’m not gonna guess because I have to go, because he’s gonna kill me. But I just wanna know…

HARDY: Anybody…

Transmetropolitan is late 90's Vertigo imprint written by Warren Ellis (Excalibur) and with art by Darick Robertson (The Boys) that focused on a gonzo reporter called Spider Jerusalem that lived in The City, a futuristic, weird, and chaotic place filled with "cultures, subcultures, life forms, and technologies" that serves as a backdrop for Spider's writing.

Not sure what kind of project Hardy and Warner Bros. are collaborating on, but it certainly sounds promising.

The continued to be coy about the subject and teased that it won't be a film.

No, but you know what I’m saying. I’m trying to be respectful with the time. My thing is, they have a schedule through 2020 that they’ve announced movies. Is what you wanna do something that’s not on that schedule?

HARDY: It’s not even a movie.

So it’s something you’ve seen…

HARDY: It’s already… 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.

What kind of property do you think the actor and studio are cooking, and it isn't a film, then what? a TV series? Netflix?

Source - Collider

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