Cicero (Tom Hardy Speaks)

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Tom Hardy has spoken to the Daily Mail about his upcomingrole as Al Capone in Cicero.

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Hardy will play the infamous gangster after he has finishedshooting Mad Max: Fury Road.

He told Daily Mail: "I’ve been working with WarnerBros, watching their gangster films — the ones with James Cagney, HumphreyBogart and Edward G. Robinson," naming The Petrified Forest, The PublicEnemy and Little Caesar as examples.

"It’s interesting to get them, and a bit of Capone,into the bloodstream… The idea isn’t to remake those films but to get a flavourof them as we explore Capone’s career as a racketeer."

On the status of the movie (which is set to be directed byHarry Potter's David Yates), Hardy added: "The idea at the moment is ofdoing a trilogy of films, but nothing is set. Everyone is just talking andexploring."

Tom Hardy will next be seen in This Means War, beforeappearing as Bane in The Dark Knight Rises.