Tom Hardy, Christopher Nolan, Kenneth Branagh Start Work on ‘Dunkirk’ – Cast List and Plot Details

SHOWBIZ JUNKIES
BY REBECCA MURRAY ON MAY 23, 2016

Tom Hardy at the Moet British Independent Film Awards (Photo by Ben A. Pruchnie / Getty Images for The Moet British Independent Film Awards)

Warner Bros Pictures announced filming is now underway on the dramatic movie Dunkirk from writer/director Christopher Nolan (Interstellar, The Dark Knight trilogy). The action thriller stars Tom Hardy (Mad Mad: Fury Road, The Revenant), Mark Rylance (Bridge of Spies), Kenneth Branagh (Hamlet), Cillian Murphy (Inception, Scarecrow in The Dark Knight trilogy), newcomer Fionn Whitehead, Aneurin Barnard, One Direction’s Harry Styles, James D’Arcy, Jack Lowden, Barry Keoghan and Tom Glynn-Carney. Nolan and Emma Thomas are producing and Jake Myers is executive producing. Warner Bros is targeting a July 21, 2017 theatrical release.

The Plot: Dunkirk opens as hundreds of thousands of British and Allied troops are surrounded by enemy forces. Trapped on the beach with their backs to the sea they face an impossible situation as the enemy closes in.

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Movie Review: Tom Hardy on road to stardom in ‘Locke

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SUNDAY, MAY 25, 2014
By Christopher Kompanek
Special to the Washington Post



NEW YORK — “It will be over quickly,” Steven Knight told Tom Hardy. The writer-director remembers saying that to his prospective star as a way of convincing him to take part in his experimental project, “Locke,” a film that takes place in real time as the title character makes a fateful 85-minute drive. “You’ll only feel a tiny prick,” Hardy chimes in playfully.

Knight and Hardy met for the first time in November 2012 to discuss another film, but by February of the following year, they were filming “Locke.” “Tom loves theater and challenges and mad ideas, so I went and wrote it with Tom in mind,” Knight says.

The “mad idea” was making a film consisting solely of a man fielding phone calls while driving. Save for some exterior shots, the camera would remain focused on Hardy’s face. “There’s something about phone calls where people are saying one thing but their faces are saying something else, which is such a gift,” Knight enthuses. “It makes you look clever. Just trying to imitate the surreal way that people talk and the way that they jumble everything up and then just one line of poetry and then jumble everything up again and say the opposite of what they mean.”

Hardy first caught Knight’s (and most of the country’s) attention as Eames, the quick-witted forger with a biting sense of humor in the 2010 sci-fi thriller “Inception,” which starred Leonardo DiCaprio. “I was terrified because it was Leo. You can’t battle against somebody like that for screen time,” Hardy recalls. “I thought, I’m just going to give him whatever he needs, and it took a lot of a load off.” He learned that the more an actor gives of himself to other actors and the audience, the better he looks. He extrapolates that thought to life itself. “The more generous a person is in any environment, the more there is to be received.”

Hardy puffs an e-cigarette as he speaks, while sporting a T-shirt that exposes his several tattoos. He also regularly flashes a boyish grin, and he draws on this duality of hard and soft to craft characters that are difficult to ignore. “There’s no particular formula or process for me. I do like to mix some ‘Taxi Driver’ with Disney World,” the 36-year-old English actor says of his process. He has particular disdain for the word “thespian,” and the idea of method acting bores him, though he is known to deeply inhabit some of his roles.

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In "Locke," Tom Hardy Only Needs a Car and a Camera to Prove He's the Best Actor Alive

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BY MATT BARONE | APR 25, 2014 | 9:42 AM



Directed by British screenwriter turned shotcaller Steven Knight, Locke is the epitome of cinematic minimalism. Hardy plays Ivan Locke, a construction manager who gets into the driver's seat of his BMW the night before he's supposed to oversee the biggest concrete pour in Europe's history. But that's the last thing on Locke's mind. As his wife and teenage son call him on the BMW's dashboard phone system, Locke heads down the M5 motorway en route to London, where an older woman he had a one-night stand with is about to give birth to their out-of-wedlock baby. And for nearly 85 minutes straight, Knight's cameras remain inside the car and focus on Locke as he battles through a whirlwind of emotions and comes to terms with the awful way he's about to rip his family apart, not to mention put his successful career in jeopardy.

Indeed, Locke is simply Tom Hardy in a car for a little less than 90 minutes, and it's amazingly captivating and intense. Behind the camera, Knight does a fine job adding unforeseen dimensions and raw energy to his single, claustrophobic location. But let's not get it twisted—Tom Hardy is the film's undeniable MVP.

Nearly matching the beguiling brilliance of his strange Bane voice, Hardy gives Ivan Locke a somewhat exaggerated but consistently pitch-perfect Welsh accent. Why? Hell if I know, but it's an inspired choice, one that exemplifies Hardy's singular risk-taking decisions as an actor. He sports a scruffy beard that undercuts his natural-born handsomeness, lending the character a jovial-neighbor-next-door appeal that's absent in every role he's played before Ivan Locke. He owns all of Knight the screenwriter's dialogue, transmitting an array of feeling, from overwhelming sadness to on-edge anger and manufactured calmness, through little more than facial expressions.

There's a point in Locke where the film nearly jumps the shark, or, for a more appropriate metaphor, crashes the figurative car. Knight mixes pieces of Locke's back-story into his phone conversations, hinting at a painful relationship with his now-deceased father. In the beginning of his trip, Locke swigs medicine to fight a head cold, and after one swallow too many, he begins to imagine that his dad is riding in the BMW's backseat. Fortunately, there isn't an actor playing Locke's own Dexter-like "dark passenger"—Hardy just talks to himself in the rear-view mirror.

It's a potentially silly move on Knight's part, and had he cast a lesser actor to pull off such inherently goofy scenes, Knight could have derailed the entire production. Hardy, however, taps back into the skill he employed to turn Charles Bronson's straight-to-the-camera monologues into towering moments of sheer force, though that specific talent is downplayed in Locke. In Knight's vehicle, he makes his character's fiery but overcooked talk of joining his pops in heaven sound beautifully wrenching.

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Tom Hardy to star in The Outsider (SKY NEWS)

Hardy is set to star as an American soldier in 'The Outsider', which will mark the English-language debut of Japanese director Takashi Miike.

The 35-year-old actor - who received the BAFTA Rising Star Award for his role in 'Inception' in 2010 - is rumoured to play an American soldier in the upcoming film, set in post-World War II Japan and following an American expatriate who becomes a Yakuza enforcer (gangster), according to Deadline.com

The epic film - which was originally being developed by Warner Bros. - will mark the English-language debut of Japanese director Takashi Miike and will be based on an original idea by John Linson.

The Andrew Baldwin script was passed over to Silver Pictures last November and is being independently funded. Filming is expected to kick off early next year in Japan.

Meanwhile, Tom is also wanted for a Sir Elton John biopic entitled 'Rocketman'.

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Tom Hardy Surprises Cancer Patient Kayleigh Duff With Dream Date by Tanya Chen (E!)

You're not dreaming, lady! The Inception hunk is really sitting next to you. 

Tom Hardy turned a young mom's fantasy into reality on Tuesday. After appearing on a British talk show to speak about her rare liver cancer diagnosis, Kayleigh Duff revealed that meeting the fellow Brit was on the top of her wish list.

Fortunately for the 23-year-old, the sister of Hardy's fiancée Charlotte Riley happened to catch the program that day and immediately enacted a plan to surprise the deserving mother with a dream date of a lifetime, with the aid of Duff's friend Katie Birch.

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James McAvoy: At the Movies: ‘Trance’ is Eye-catching

By Megan Bianco

We’ve had a few films already this year with surprising plot twists like Side Effects, Stoker and The Place Beyond the Pines, and Trance follows suit effectively. Boyle’s fast-paced, flashy style and Rick Smith’s score fit Joe Ahearne and John Hodge’s script memorably and intriguingly. McAvoy proves that he is capable of playing nice guys and bad guys, while Dawson carries the film just fine as one of 2013’s smartest characters thus far. What Inception did for dreams on screen, Trance does for memories.

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Tom Hardy Climbing Aboard Doug Liman-Directed ‘Everest’; He’ll Play George Mallory By MIKE FLEMING | Monday September 24, 2012 @ 7:41pm EDT (DEADLINE NEW YORK)

EXCLUSIVE: Tom Hardy is in early talks to star in Everest for Sony Pictures. He will play George Mallory, the climber who tried three times in the 1920s to become the first man to scale the world’s highest mountain. Doug Liman will direct the film after he completes All You Need Is Kill at Warner Bros with Tom Cruise.

An adaptation of Jeffrey Archer’s book Paths Of Glory, Everest has been adapted by Sheldon Turner (Up In The Air). Jennifer Klein is producing, and Dave Bartis, Liman’s partner at Hypnotic, will also be a producer.

Liman, the Bourne Identity and Mr. And Mrs. Smith helmer who is himself an avid climber and fan of the Mallory story, has an actor who is a strong match for the intensity that burned in Mallory to get to the top of the mountain and beat another great climber, Australian George Finch (the grandfather of actor Peter Finch). Everest has been scaled many times since, but it is still dangerous–there are plenty of bodies near the final summit of those who got close but failed–but in Mallory’s time, it was like trying to become the first man on the moon.

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Tom Hardy: Ranking His 6 Recent Roles September 22, 2012 10:11 am Andy Wong (WHATCULTURE)

Tom Hardy has only recently begun to grace our big screens with his presence on a regular basis and solidify himself as a rising star to watch. Though appearing in many TV series, miniseries, and films in the British entertainment industry, it wasn’t until a few short years ago when his fame exploded and sent him flying straight into Hollywood with the help of a little dream. Hardy follows the trend of the attractively-immature actor we see nowadays taking the film industry by storm. He doesn’t have the old Hollywood class that is usually present in male actors and is not too concerned about his image. Instead he brings a youthful, more modern, and fresh approach that oozes of charm and dare I say, swag.

6. Tuck Hansen (This Means War)

Tuck was probably the character with the least intricacies on this list. He was a hopeless romantic, which practically covers the entire misunderstood-slick-loner-softy type I mentioned before to a certain degree. With what he was given, I think Hardy did wonderfully. He was awkward when he needed to be and he was hopeless when he needed to be. That being said, he lacked chemistry with Chris Pine, Reese Witherspoon, and even his son in the film. I didn’t buy for a second the “falling out” he had with Pine’s character. He really only had chemistry with his own thoughts, which is a feat in itself, but not something to aim for in a character driven film. In the end, it was just a forgettable role.

5. Eames (Inception)

He was a misunderstood loner – not the “emo” type mind you, just that he was misunderstood as a loner – as he preferred working alone and through illusions while he was also a slick softy as his friendly rivalry with Arthur showed. He was quick-witted, clever, and the recipe for a popular character. He easily stuck out from the large cast with the help of a little charisma, but seeing as how he wasn’t as well known as Leonardo DiCaprio for example, no one really thought too much about him. Not much else I can say.

4. Ricki Tarr (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy)

Like Inception, Hardy’s character is part of an ensemble cast making it hard to stand out. However, he does so easily in this film due to the nature and look of his character. Tarr’s infatuation with the character Irina romanticizes a film in drastic need of light – or any sort of emotion on that. His naive, almost childish demeanor sharply contrasts that of any other character, making him a sort of oasis in the desert of grit.

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Happy Birthday, Tom Hardy! Celebrate His 35th

Edward Thomas "Tom" Hardy is an English actor. Some of his most notable film roles include Star Trek: Nemesis, RocknRolla, Bronson, Warrior, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, This Means War, and Inception, ... Wikipedia

Born: September 15, 1977 (age 35), Hammersmith
Height: 5' 10" (1.78 m)
Spouse: Sarah Ward (m. 1999–2004)
Children: Louis Thomas Hardy
Parents: Anne Hardy, Edward "Chips" Hardy





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Gerard Butler and Tom Hardy - together - Oh, my, my, my

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Diehard Tom Hardy fans will point to performances like this, in 2008′s RocknRolla. At a crucial point in the movie, on Handsome Bob’s (Hardy) last night of freedom, he ends up confessing that he’s actually gay and has a crush on his friend One-Two (Butler). It’s a tender, realistic scene that makes us ache for poor Bob. And then they end up slow-dancing at the end!

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Tom Hardy - Tom Hardy To Drive Across Siberia For Charity (CONTACT MUSIC)

28 February 2012 12:12

British actor Tom Hardy is preparing to brave icy conditions as he drives across Siberia to raise money for a homeless charity.

The Inception star is a patron of U.K. organisation Flack, which helps the homeless by involving them in the production of a monthly magazine, and he is aiming to raise $48,000 (£30,000) by embarking on a journey across the isolated Russian region.

Hardy has set up an internet donation page on Justgiving.com and he's urging fans to donate whatever they can to help.

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Review: Menacing Tom Hardy gives 'The Take' brutal bite, on Encore

By Curt Wagner RedEye

8:01 p.m. CST, December 1, 2011

Keep your eyes on Tom Hardy. Before the Brit starred in films like "Inception" or this year's "Warrior," he scorched the small screen as thuggish Freddie Jackson in the 2009 British miniseries "The Take" (8 p.m. Friday, Encore; 3.5 stars).

His unblinking, brutish presence has turned a rather traditional and ultra-violent crime drama into something exceedingly watchable and suspenseful. Encore is presenting the miniseries as an original for the network, premiering each of the four parts at 8 p.m. Dec. 2, 9, 16 and 23.

As the story opens, thuggish Freddie is picked up from prison in the 1980s by his cousin, Jimmy (Shaun Evans, also terrific). Freddie brings Jimmy into the crime business, where they do a little of this and a little of that for mob boss Ozzy (Brian Cox), who is serving a prison sentence himself.

But where Freddie shows absolutely no conscience and never misses the chance to use murder, betrayal or smashing beer bottle into a goodfella’s face, the smarter Jimmy talks thing out, settling disputes in a gentler way. Without spoiling too much, alliances shift in surprising ways over the 10 years covered by the miniseries.

We also meet the sisters Freddie and Jimmy marry. Jackie (Kierston Wareing) is Freddie’s long-suffering pill popper wife, while Jimmy’s gal, Maggie (Charlotte Riley), manages to keep her senses even if she, too, suffers from her man’s chosen profession. Both actresses are exceptional in the roles that you’ve probably seen in any number of mob movies.

Familiar characters like that and a fourth-hour payoff that doesn’t quite match the buildup are the main problems with “The Take,” which is adapted from a popular British novel by Martina Cole.

But Hardy and the supporting cast deliver. I can’t wait to see him bring that same menace to the role of baddie Bane in Christopher Nolan’s “The Dark Knight Rises” next year.

Chicago Tribune