Tom Hardy and Josh Trank Are Teaming Up Again For a Limited Series About The CIA

Fantastic Four and Capone director Josh Trank is reteaming with Tom Hardy for a new limited series project that will be about the CIA. After everything that happened with Fantastic Four, it looks like Hardy is the guy that has stepped up to give Trank another shot at salvaging his career.

The new series will tell the story of how the CIA came to exist and according to Trank, it will also address “capitalism versus communism.” Trank talked about the series in an interview with Collider, saying:

“I’m working on this limited series that Tom Hardy is producing and that he’s involved in and he’s very excited about, and I’m excited about, [and it’s] a story that spans decades, from right at the end of World War II and concerning the formation of the CIA, but from a point of view that hasn’t really been seen in a movie or in television before, and is just mentioned in books. It deals a lot with Castro and Cuba, and capitalism versus Communism. It’s really big. Sort of the, you know, capitalism versus communism. It’s really big.”

Hardy will not only produce the series, but he will star in it as well. The two talents seemed to have formed a good working relationship with each other and this is certainly an intriguing story to tell.

The birth of the CIA was previously covered in the Robert De Niro-directed 2006 film The Good Shepherd, which starred Matt Damon. I liked that film, but it will be interesting to see what Trank and Hardy bring to the table with their series.

The CIA project isn’t attached to a network yet. It’s just something the two are currently developing that they will eventually shop around. Trank went on to say:

“It’s really good. It’s interesting, it’s dangerous and it’s fascinating. The things I’m learning from it, it lends so much big commentary and parallel to how we ended up where we are now, and I’m fascinated by those things.”

Does this sound like a series that you’d be interested in watching?

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