Tom Hardy Goes Outlaw Biker for 'Sons of Anarchy' Producer (GET THE BIG PICTURE)

"Let's get one thing straight, Tom Hardy was born and bred to be a top tier action star.

"Here's hoping roles in rom coms like This Means War will be an afterthought, while the actor opts to portray bad ass villains like Bane in The Dark Knight Rises or a tough guy bootlegger in period pieces like Wettest County. Hardy has grabbed a new role for Sons of Anarchy exec-producer Jon Linson playing an outlaw biker during the 60's in a currently untitled film, Variety reports.

"The script that's being written by Mark L. Smith (Vacancy) at the moment has Hardy slated for this lead role that sounds far more promising by the description below. I'm thinking it's more action-drama than just straight up action. “Story… centers on a wounded Vietnam veteran who returns home to San Francisco at the height of unrest of 1969. Amid clashing cultures of the Haight-Ashbury district, he emerges to become the leader of California’s most violent outlaw biker club.”


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Tom Hardy Prepares to Play Al Capone (Fan Share)

Tom Hardy reveals his Al Capone preparation

Tom Hardy’s career just keeps moving onwards and upwards and he is now set to play the infamous gangster Al Capone, in the new movie based on his rise to power titled Cicero. Tom has been discussing how he has been getting himself in to the right mindset for the part and that he has been watching a lot of old gangster movies in a bid to portray Al Capone convincingly.

Hardy explained, "I’ve been working with Warner Bros, watching their gangster films, the ones with James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart and Edward G. Robinson. It’s interesting to get them, and a bit of Capone, into the bloodstream. The idea isn’t to remake those films but to get a flavour of them as we explore Capone’s career as a racketeer. The idea at the moment is of doing a trilogy of films, but nothing is set. Everyone is just talking and exploring."

Tom Hardy has three movies out this year, all of which look set to be impressive movies. This Means War is set to be released on February 17, while The Dark Knight Rises, which sees Tom playing the villain Bane, is released on July 20, with Wettest County being released on August 31. Tom Hardy was recently confirmed to be playing the role of Mad Max in the remake of the hit Mel Gibson movie. Cicero is set to begin production in 2013.

Round-up: Anticipating Oscar voters' passion play (HitFix)

Also: Defending 'The Artist' and delaying 'Wettest County'

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Will Michael Fassbender's work in "Shame" attract enough passion votes for an Oscar nod?

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The words "passion vote" get repeated with numbing frequency in the Oscar prediction racket, as pundits try to separate the niche contenders who inspire fierce devotion from the broadly agreeable ones who appear to be nobody's favorite. Year after year, we convince ourselves the former are in a more advantageous position; year after year, films like "Frost/Nixon" somehow get nominated. Mark Harris addresses this dichotomy in his column this week, acknowledging the films and actors that seem primed for passion votes (Fassbender, Swinton, "Margaret"), while wondering if they have enough support to overcome the Academy's dutiful tendency to reward dull familiarity and hard work ("an A-for-effort nomination for Leonardo DiCaprio" about sums it up). [Grantland]

Anne Thompson talks to WGA nominee John Logan, whose diverse 2011 accomplishments include "Hugo," "Rango" and "Coriolanus." [Thompson on Hollywood]

The venerable David Thomson closes his long-running Biographical Dictionary series at The Guardian with an entry on Michael Fassbender. [The Guardian]

Stephanie Zacharek tells the detractors why she loves "The Artist," despite it being "allegedly the Philistine's choice for movie of the year." [Slate]

Richard Brody bemoans the flawed foreign-language Oscar selection process, suggests the same sensible alternative many of us have called for. [New Yorker]

The release of "The Wettest County in the World," one of our most anticipated of 2012, has been pushed back to August. No worse than April, surely. [LA Times] 

Steven Soderbergh on "Haywire," and why he likes killing movie stars. [The Independent]

R. Kurt Osenlund weighs up the Oscar potential of "The Tree of Life." [Slant]

Marc Lee on the sort-of-campaign that just won't die: an Oscar for Uggie! I'm still entirely on board. [The Telegraph]

Elton John, the man who stands to make "Gnomeo and Juliet" an Academy Award nominee, talks to Steve Pond about his film work. [The Odds]

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