The dust has even settled from his performance in Christopher Nolan's incredible Dunkirk, but actor Tom Hardy has already announced his next project. The 39-year-old is going to produce and star in the adaptation of the novel My War Gone By, I Miss It So.
The 1999 book, written by English journalist and war correspondent Anthony Loyd, details the horrors of the Bosnian War, and the mental health and drug dependency issues that Loyd suffered.
The synopsis on Amazon reads: "Nothing can prepare you for the account of war that Loyd gives. His harrowing stories from the battlefields show humanity at its worst and best, witnessed through the grim tragedies played out daily in the city, streets, and mountain villages of Bosnia and Chechnya."
Photo of Anthony taken in 1999. Credit: PA
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Hardy has told Variety:
"I was struck by Anthony's work and words, experiences, and for me his is an
important voice and an important book."
Gavin O'Connor has signed up to direct the dark film, who's worked with Hardy before in the 2011 sport drama Warrior. O'Connor has also told the entertainment site: "Anthony's memoir was love at first page - a portrait of war like I'd never read before. An up-close-and-personal account of a heroin junkie reporting from the front lines of Bosnia - the bloodiest conflict Europe has witnessed since the Second World War - who uses the high of war to kick his drug habit. It's a book written with both fists.
"It's Anthony's Apocalypse Now. I feel privileged and honoured for the opportunity to bring the book to the movies."
Credit: PA
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Loyd set off to Bosnia with a very vague plan of covering the war, but got lucky and began selling photographs of the conflict to anyone who'd buy them. When a French correspondent was injured in a claymore mine blast, they asked if Anthony could fill in until a replacement was sent. The Times then put him on a retainer and he was sent to cover other war zones, including Kosovo, Chechnya, Afghanistan, Sierra Leone and Iraq.
Hardy is no stranger to playing a character set in a war environment; his motion picture debut was in Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down and he's also appeared in the HBO mini-series Band of Brothers.
The new project doesn't have a release date, but his next appearance will be in Star Wars: The Last Jedi as a First Order Stormtrooper. Further down the line, it'll also be interesting to see how he tackles the Marvel villain of Eddie Brock, better known as Venom, one of Spider-Man's arch-enemies. While that movie doesn't yet have a title, it's expected to be released next year.
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