Tom Hardy played a DC villain, almost played a DC badass and wants to play…a Marvel anti-hero.
Hardy is burning through the post-apocalypse in Mad Max: Fury Road this summer. He had to drop out of playing Rick Flagg in the supervillain team-up movie Suicide Squad due to a scheduling conflict.
When asked about possible comic book roles, Hardy went for a Marvel icon:
“I want the Punisher. I want the Punisher or Splinter Cell, I want something, I don’t what I want,” he told Collider.
“”I’m not big enough to be the Punisher, I’m 5’9”
Frank Castle. I would love it. Is that him, isn’t it.”
Three actors have played the Marvel vigilante:
Dolph Lundgren in 1989.
Thomas Jane in the 2004 version.
Ray Stevenson in Punisher War Zone in 2008.
Mad Max: Fury Road opens May 15th.
By Editor