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Tom Hardy has made quite the career in Hollywood by playing vicious villains and he will go the bad guy route once again as he plays notorious gangster Al Capone. In the upcoming Al Capone biopic titled Fonzo, Hardy will portray the ruthless Chicago mafia boss who was nicknamed “Scarface.”
However, Hardy won’t be playing a young Capone who amassed his vast fortune during Prohibition. The 42-year-old British actor will play an aging Al Capone who is on death’s doorstep. “Once a ruthless businessman and bootlegger who ruled Chicago with an iron fist, Alfonse Capone was the most infamous and feared gangster of American lore,” the movie’s synopsis states. “At the age of 47, following nearly a decade of imprisonment, dementia rots Alfonse’s mind and his past becomes present as harrowing memories of his violent and brutal origins melt into his waking life.” Maybe Hardy will switch gears after playing this villain and play a good guy… say, maybe James Bond?
Fonzo is helmed by director and screenwriter Joshua Trank, who is best known for Chronicle and Fantastic Four. The gangster movie is reported to start production on April 2, 2018, in New Orleans, Louisiana. Instead of getting jacked like he did for his role as Bane in 2012’s The Dark Knight Rises, it looks like Hardy will have to gain some fatty weight for this role.
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