Tom Hardy to Produce and Possibly Star in Comic Book Film 100 BULLETS

Comic Book Movie 100 Bullets Tom Hardy about 10 years agoby Ben Pearson

I read the first issue of Brian Azzarello's crime comic 100 Bullets years ago, but wasn't patient enough to stick with it for its 10 year run. Lasting from 1999 to 2009, the 100 issue award-winning series surrounded the mysterious Agent Graves who gave victims a handgun, 100 untraceable bullets, and information about the person who ruined their lives in an effort to see whether they'd take revenge given the chance. It seems like actor Tom Hardy was a fan of the modern noir, because according to THR, he's now involved with a film adaptation. This is the property he was teasing months ago when he said:

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.

Hardy will produce and possibly star for New Line, Warner Bros. edgier corporate sibling that's currently working on an adaptation of Neil Gaiman's Sandman with Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Four years ago, David Goyer was working on a TV adaptation of 100 Bullets for Showtime, but that project seems to have fallen through and morphed into this one. The movie version already has a script in place by writer Chris Borrelli, and though the plot is being kept under wraps, THR's sources indicate that the plan is to stick close to the source material.

Like I said, I only read one issue of this comic, so I'd love to hear from those of you who are well-versed in it about whether you think Hardy is the right guy to bring this to life. He's obviously no stranger to comic book films, starring as Bane in The Dark Knight Rises and flirting with Suicide Squad before delays shooting The Revenant caused him to drop out of that project, but I'd like to know if you think he's equipped for this particular project.