He is booming with projects these days )) Ernest Shackleton project

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Since he dropped out of Everest looks like Mr. Hardy is getting a shot at a somewhat similar role, seem he enjoys working in extreme elements - did it start with his trips o Siberia?

I do see he is striving for more heroic figures to portray.

I do see he is striving for more heroic figures to portray.

I have the feelings that his character in Taboo is pretty much the ultimate anti-hero (mad, bad and dangerous to know). So this would be a nice change for him and for the audience.

He signs up for a lot of projects that never come to pass (The Outsider, Everest, Rocketman), so I'll hold my breath about this and the Don McCullin film until they actually go into production.



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Yes, but this one will be entirely financed by StudioCanal apparently. The fact that there is already some fixed source of financing is a good sign (even if it doesn't automatically mean that the project will enter in production). I think that he dropped out of Everest so financing and production issues were not really at work here. Personally, I'm not that keen on Rocketman, Cicero and Splinter Cell so I guess that for me, the successful completion of these projects do not really matter. I'm not familiar with the Outsider movie though: is it the movie which was supposed to be directed by Bigelow (i.e. True American)? I really hope that this collaboration with Bigelow will result in something concrete some day, mostly because the role and the theme are potentially very rich in terms of meaning and relevance.

I'm also quite interested in the McCullin and Samarkand projects: both seem to touch important and vital issues. While nothing is sure as far as the completion of these projects is concerned, I think that we should keep in mind that Taboo actually took four years to go into production. So sometimes, some projects happen but in a slower pace than we expect. Plus, there is the Steven Knight untitled project to consider (he said that it will go in production quite soon) so I guess that Hardy will get something substantial on his plate quite soon (even if I'm wary of Knight after the Peaky Blinders debacle).

In any case, these few projects we are hearing about in the last months are interesting in the sense that it gives us insights about the roles Hardy is now interested in.

Was it the director's fault or the screenplay? Hmmm.


Probably both. Afredson tried to grasp late 60ies/early 70ies nostalgia while neglecting the content. The scriptwriter tried to condense a quite rich material into two hours. Not a good combination I suppose but critics seemed to like it for some reason (but TBH, I rarely agree with the critics so...)

They should still make this film about Mallory

Yes but sadly, because of the Everest film, I don't think that they will do a film about it any time soon.

Everest film which turned out well below average.

It seems that Hardy is very lucky in terms of escaping very bad movies (cough*Suicide Squad* cough). 

That was the Japanese yakuza bloodfest

 Ah the one featuring Jared Leto? Dear God.

What was the debacle?

The dreadful ''writing'' of Series 3. The ''Russian'' characters are marvels in that regard. 

Good lord. Jared Leto is now in the TH role in The Outsider? Did they cast him before Suicide Squad came out. Oh that would have been such a incredible movie with TH and the original director. Sigh.

I enjoyed TTSS but then I never read the book. My philosophy is if you haven't read the book and they make the movie never read the book until after the movie or you are 99% likely to be disappointed if you loved the book.

I wonder if there are some movies that improved upon the book.

The only time I broke my rule it worked out - The Year of Living Dangerously. The movie, though it played with the plot line somewhat, I felt it captured the spirit and essence of the book and made it even sexier, the background music was very effective, it is in my brain now as I type this. One of Peter Weir's better movies.

The other was Clockwork Orange but it doesn't quite count because I was too young to see the movie when it came out. Also pleased with the result as it is one of my all time favourite movies.

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