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Josh Trank , the director behind 2015 ’s much - malignedFantastic Four , has confirmed his Al Capone dramaFonzois set for release later this year . News of the projection first broke back in 2016 when it was reported thatMad Max : Eumenides RoadandVenomleadTom Hardy would asterisk as the ill-famed Chicago mobster . It was also confirmed that unlike many an Al Capone film before it ( likeThe Untouchables ) that centre on his heyday , Fonzo would focalize on Capone ’s distressing net day when the mobster was repulse mad by neurosyphilis before dying at the young age of 48 .
Not much more was heard about the output for a while until last class , when it was reported that severalother gifted actors would be join theFonzocastalongside Hardy , include Kyle MacLachlan ( Twin Peaks , Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. ) as Capone ’s doctor , Linda Cardellini ( Avengers : Age of Ultron , The Curse of La Llorona ) as his wife Mae , and Matt Dillon ( There ’s Something About Mary , The House That Jack Built ) as his best match Johnny . Soon after , Hardy deal the world to a sneak peep of himselflooking very convincing as an ail Al Caponein a photo he post on Instagram .
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NowTrankhas announced thatFonzowill be released at some level afterward this year . Posting from his Twitter account , the director had this to say of both his upcoming new movie and his past attempt :
“ loser was a gift . It drive me to walk an honest path , and I ’m way happier today than I ever was before . I have a photographic film out later this yr , asterisk Tom Hardy , called FONZO that I wrote , directed , and edited . We had so much fun making it & it ’s my best workplace as a filmmaker . ”
Fonzolooks like it could be a dandy repercussion film for Trank too . The time period of Capone ’s liveliness on which the film will focus is certainly full of interesting and relatively unmined field matter , and he ’s got a keen cast onboard to boot . There could n’t be a better star than Hardy for the moving-picture show , either . He ’s have plenty of experience taking on the role of substantial - life gangsters , having antecedently flirt Charles Bronson in the 2008 offence biopicBronsonand the Kray twins in 2015’sLegend . With two motion picture that invite wildly different critical responses to his name so far , it ’ll definitely be interesting to see how Trank’sFonzoturns out .
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