In the first move since taking oversight of DC Entertainment’s Vertigo comics line from corporate sibling Warner Bros., New Line is developing an adaptation of the acclaimed comic-book series by Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso. Hardy, who played villain Bane in The Dark Knight Rises, will produce with Dean Baker via the duo’s Hardy Son & Baker production company. The plot for the movie is being kept secret, but insiders say the plan is to stay true to the comic. Running for 100 issues from 1999 to 2009, the comic book series centers 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.
Hardy will reunite with his Inception co-star Leonardo DiCaprio for Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's revenge Western, The Revenant, and also plays twin gangsters The Kray Brothers in the upcoming crime drama Legend.