Tom Hardy Gossip

When a movie fails, there are two possible outcomes. One is that it’s bad and boring, and thus forgettable, because there is nothing about it to make an impression other than its overall badness. Or, it’s bad yet entertaining, because while it doesn’t work, it fails in some interesting way that makes it watchable even if it is, objectively, Not Good. Full Story

Tom Hardy was seen in New York today promoting Venom. Venom? Does it feel to you like Venom is a big deal? Have you been paying attention to any of the hype around it? Has there BEEN any hype around it?  I work in media, both online and broadcast. Venom hasn’t really been a conversation in my bubble. Full Story

Earlier this year we got a peek at Tom Hardy getting into character as Al Capone for the upcoming movie Fonzo. Now, we get the first look at Hardy fully made up as Capone and it’s fine. He doesn’t look anything like Capone but the overall impression is good as a gangster. Full Story

Lainey emailed me about the new Venom trailer with this note about Tom Hardy’s acting choices: “Why does he always have to play characters where you can’t understand what the f*ck he’s saying?” Tom Hardy loves to do silly voices, as he always does one. He loves silly voices like Johnny Depp loves scarves and Leonardo DiCaprio loves 23 year old models. Full Story

The last time we saw Tom Hardy and Charlotte Riley together was at Prince Harry and Royal Meghan’s wedding in May and he was bald, still working on that Al Capone movie. Tom joined Charlotte last night in London for the premiere of Swimming with Men and the hair has grown back. He looks good. As good as he’s looked in a while and she, holy sh-t, is gorgeous. Full Story

While almost everyone (except Chris Evans) from the MCU was in LA last night for the Avengers: Infinity War premiere, Tom Hardy who is Marvel-ish but not MCU proper was in Vegas at CinemaCon for the Sony presentation and the release of the new Venom trailer, with Michelle Williams and Riz Ahmed. I have no comic book background on what Venom is and why, beyond the fact that he’s a villain and may or may not be associated with Spider-Man. Full Story

Elton John is finally getting the biopic treatment, and as a sign of some goodness remaining in the universe, Justin Timberlake is not going to portray him. The movie is called Rocket Man (for now), and it will star charm machine Taron Egerton Full Story

He does it a lot. RocknRolla, Peaky Blinders, Legend, technically Inception and Dark Knight Rises, and that’s just the criminal/gangster roles I remember off the top of my head. Tom Hardy has a niche and it’s “unintelligible crime boss”. (I like Tom Hardy, he’s a great actor, but let’s not pretend like enunciation is his thing. Full Story

The teaser for Venom, the supervillain movie starring Tom Hardy, has been released and it’s certainly a series of moving images. I’m honestly not sure what to make of this. It’s just Hardy narrating about how everyone has their THING and his THING is DEMONS, and he’s Doing A Voice—because Tom Hardy ALWAYS Does A Voice, and I don’t mean putting on American accent, I mean he sounds a little like Mike Tyson—and it’s kind of funny? I don’t think it’s supposed to be funny. Full Story

Tom Hardy has been in Atlanta the last few months working on Venom. Venom is a Spider-Man villain. Apparently he starts off as Eddie Brock and some sh-t happens to him – as it does in these stories – and he becomes a bad guy. I’m not a comic book nerd so please don’t ask me to tell you more than that. Full Story

The opening scene from Saving Private Ryan is the gold standard of cinematic depiction of World War II. Recreating the Omaha Beach landing in searing detail, Steven Spielberg brought to life one of the most harrowing and horrifying chapters in that war’s history. Full Story