Tim Palen is more than just Lionsgate’s president of theatrical marketing — he also shoots many of the studio’s posters himself, such as last week’s attention-getting, blood-soaked portrait of a nude Paz De La Huerta for Lionsgate’s horror film Nurse 3D. There’s also a lot of blood and exposed skin in Palen’s photos of the cast of the studio’s September 9 fighter drama Warrior, which stars Tom Hardy and Joel Edgerton as brothers pitted against each other in the world of mixed martial arts. Today, Vulture premieres some of those arty black-and-white shots of Hardy, Edgerton, and some of the film’s other actors (many of whom are also real MMA fighters); these portraits and more have been compiled into a 128-page book, The Men of Warrior, which precedes the film on bookshelves August 9.
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Bronson and Inception actor, Tom Hardy, will play Al Capone in Cicero, an origins story on the Chicago crime boss’s rise to power, according to New York magazine’s Vulture blog.
Harry Potter director David Yates is set to direct the film for Warner Bros, which is rumoured to be the first of a franchise. If so, it will likely cover Capone’s childhood in New York, his teenage years as a member of the infamous Five Points Gang and his move to the southside Chicago suburb of Cicero, where he made millions running illegal speakeasies during Prohibition.
Capone’s life story has already inspired a number of Hollywood adaptations. Rod Steiger took a pop at the role in Richard Wilson’s 1959 biopic, Robert De Niro gathered his guns for 1987’s The Untouchables, Howard Hughes’s Scarface (1932) was loosely based on Capone’s life and was later adapted by Brian De Palma for his 1983 re-make, starring Al Pacino.
