The acclaimed Vertigo comic book series 100 Bullets is very cinematic. Agent Graves suddenly appearing in the lives of all different types of people to hand them a briefcase filled with a photo of the person that killed their loved ones, a gun and 100 untraceable bullets seems like something out of an Alfred Hitchcock movie.
It's no surprise then that a film adaptation of the comic by Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso is now in the works. Tom Hardy and New Line are looking to bring 100 Bullets to the big screen. Hardy will produce the project, along with his producing partner Dean Baker via their company Hardy Son & Baker, and he also has "an eye to star," The Hollywood Reporter first reported.
The movie will also feature a script from Chris Borrelli, who last penned the screenplay for this year's horror thriller The Vatican Tapes. The plot of the 100 Bullets film is being kept under wraps right now, "but insiders say the plan is to stay true to the comic," according to The Hollywood Reporter.
100 Bullets ran for 100 issues from 1999 to 2009 under the DC Comics imprint Vertigo. Warner Bros. was in charge of the development and production of Vertigo titles until June of this year when New Line, a unit of Warner Bros. Entertainment since 2008, absorbed those movie titles, including the film adaptation of Neil Gaiman's comic book series The Sandman.
Hardy is, of course, no stranger to DC Entertainment himself. The British actor famously starred as Bane in the 2012 Batman movie The Dark Knight Rises. He was last seen as the titular character in May's Mad Max: Fury Road.
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