Tom Hardy set for DC/Vertigo adaptation 100 Bullets for New Line Cinema

That’s because Hardy will reportedly produce and possibly star in 100 Bullets, a film adaptation of Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso’s acclaimed Vertigo series.

Running for 100 issues – figure that – Azzarello and Risso’s gritty noir centers around the enigmatic Agent Graves, who spontaneously appears at random to citizens and offers them a loaded gun and the name of the person who ruined their lives.

At the moment, THR says Hardy is only committed to producing 100 Bullets ” with an eye to star”. Are you excited by the prospect of a 100 Bullets film?

Geoff Johns and Adam Schlagman are overseeing for DC while Richard Brener, Walter Hamada and Dave Neustadter run point for New Line. This would be New Line’s first stab at a Vertigo film, after news broke this year that the studio would oversee all movies based on the DC Comics imprint. (Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s big screen version of Neil Gaiman‘s Sandman was already well into development at the time.) The Vertigo books feature more creator-driven, edgier stories outside of the main DC superhero genre, which Warner Bros. still handles with the likes of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and Suicide Squad. Graves gives them the opportunity to take revenge by providing a handgun, 100 bullets, and documentation about the primary target responsible for their woes.

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.

He and Hardy Son & Baker are now producing Taboo for FX and BBC One in partnership with Ridley Scott and Scott Free London. Borrelli is repped by APA and DMG.