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 multi-genre when compared to DC Comics, the home of four-color heroes such as Batman and Wonder Woman and Flash. The project’s script is by Chris Borrelli, writer of the recent horror film The Vatican Tapes.
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Tom Hardy is set to produce and possibly star in New Line’s adaptation of the revenge comic “100 Bullets”, an individual with knowledge of the project told TheWrap.
Tom Hardy is producing the video game adaptation Splinter Cell, with an eye to starring as well. Additionally, New Line is still the studio that is reportedly housing Shazam!
Hardy had teased work on a DC movie a while ago while promoting Mad Max: Fury Road, after having to drop out of Suicide Squad. New Line Cinema, a subsidiary of Warner Bros.
It’s really good actually, it contains elements of all kinds of stuff. However, this story gradually expands into something far more complex-which in Hollywood terms translates into ample opportunity for sequels. It could be like Heat, it could be f–ing awesome.
The comic, created by Eduardo Risso and Brian Azzarello, ran for 100 issues between 1999 and 2009, and centres 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”.
All we know about the proposed direction for the 100 Bullets movie is that it will “remain true to the comic”.
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100 Bullets joins Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s adaptation of Sandman as a part of the Vertigo line-up that the Warner subsidiary will oversee.
