'Mad Max' actor is producing with an eye to
star in the adaptation of the gritty comic.
New Line and Tom Hardy are loading up on 100
Bullets.
In the first move since assuming oversight of DC
Entertainment’s Vertigo comics imprint from
corporate parent Warner Bros., New Line is
developing an adaptation of the acclaimed comic
by Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso.
Hardy, who played villain Bane in The Dark Knight
Rises as well as starred in this summer’s Mad
Max: Fury Road, is on board to produce the
adaptation with an eye to star. He will produce
with Dean Baker via the duo’s Hardy Son &
Baker production shingle.
The project is already down the line in
development, having a script by Chris Borrelli,
whose credits include the recent supernatural
horror movie The Vatican Tapes.
Running for 100 issues from 1999 to 2009, the
acclaimed comic centered on an enigmatic man
named Agent Graves as he presents different
people, for reasons unknown, with a gun, the
identity of the person who ruined their lives …
and a hundred rounds of untraceable
ammunition.
Over the course of the series emerged a large
crime saga that won accolades in the form of
Eisner and Harvey Awards for Azzarello, Risso
and the comic.
The plot for movie is being kept locked in a
briefcase but insiders say the plan is to stay true
to the comic.
Geoff Johns and Adam Schlagman are
overseeing for DC while Richard Brener, Walter
Hamada and Dave Neustadter run point for New
Line.
In a reshuffling of the slate that occurred in late
June, New Line absorbed production and
development of DC’s Vertigo, the imprint that
tends to be edgier, creator-focused and
multigenre when compared with DC Comics
proper, the home of four-color heroes such as
Batman, Wonder Woman and the Flash.
New Line is overseeing the adaptation of
Sandman, the Vertigo title created by Neil
Gaiman that has Joseph Gordon-Levitt involved
as star and director but that was already in
active development at Warners when the transfer
occurred. 100 Bullets is the first Vertigo feature
project to actively move forward in any way
since New Line took over the imprint.
The project was previously in the chamber to be
a television series with David Goyer involved and
was also being developed as a movie by Akiva
Goldsman 's Weed Road.
Hardy’s Fury Road has grossed over $372 million
worldwide for Warners. He next will reunite with
his Inception co-star Leonardo DiCaprio for
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu 's revenge Western,
Revenant , and also plays twin gangsters in
Working Title’s crime drama Legend .
He and Hardy Son & Baker are currently
producing Taboo for FX and BBC One in
partnership with Ridley Scott and Scott Free
London.
star in the adaptation of the gritty comic.
New Line and Tom Hardy are loading up on 100
Bullets.
In the first move since assuming oversight of DC
Entertainment’s Vertigo comics imprint from
corporate parent Warner Bros., New Line is
developing an adaptation of the acclaimed comic
by Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso.
Hardy, who played villain Bane in The Dark Knight
Rises as well as starred in this summer’s Mad
Max: Fury Road, is on board to produce the
adaptation with an eye to star. He will produce
with Dean Baker via the duo’s Hardy Son &
Baker production shingle.
The project is already down the line in
development, having a script by Chris Borrelli,
whose credits include the recent supernatural
horror movie The Vatican Tapes.
Running for 100 issues from 1999 to 2009, the
acclaimed comic centered on an enigmatic man
named Agent Graves as he presents different
people, for reasons unknown, with a gun, the
identity of the person who ruined their lives …
and a hundred rounds of untraceable
ammunition.
Over the course of the series emerged a large
crime saga that won accolades in the form of
Eisner and Harvey Awards for Azzarello, Risso
and the comic.
The plot for movie is being kept locked in a
briefcase but insiders say the plan is to stay true
to the comic.
Geoff Johns and Adam Schlagman are
overseeing for DC while Richard Brener, Walter
Hamada and Dave Neustadter run point for New
Line.
In a reshuffling of the slate that occurred in late
June, New Line absorbed production and
development of DC’s Vertigo, the imprint that
tends to be edgier, creator-focused and
multigenre when compared with DC Comics
proper, the home of four-color heroes such as
Batman, Wonder Woman and the Flash.
New Line is overseeing the adaptation of
Sandman, the Vertigo title created by Neil
Gaiman that has Joseph Gordon-Levitt involved
as star and director but that was already in
active development at Warners when the transfer
occurred. 100 Bullets is the first Vertigo feature
project to actively move forward in any way
since New Line took over the imprint.
The project was previously in the chamber to be
a television series with David Goyer involved and
was also being developed as a movie by Akiva
Goldsman 's Weed Road.
Hardy’s Fury Road has grossed over $372 million
worldwide for Warners. He next will reunite with
his Inception co-star Leonardo DiCaprio for
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu 's revenge Western,
Revenant , and also plays twin gangsters in
Working Title’s crime drama Legend .
He and Hardy Son & Baker are currently
producing Taboo for FX and BBC One in
partnership with Ridley Scott and Scott Free
London.
