The actor became much more vague when he touched on possibly doing a DC comics property for Warner Bros. Hardy had to drop out of Suicide Squad due to a scheduling conflict, but he’s still interested in comics, and is particularly excited in what Warner Bros. might do with this unnamed property:
HARDY: I actually got something cooking with Warner Bros. which is also a comic book, it’s a DC thing which is kind of…
Oh you should really share because I’m not a journalist, no one’s recording this.
HARDY: It’s really good actually, it contains elements of all kinds of stuff. From Ocean’s Eleven, to Batman, you can get all the wrappers out and it would be a big, really cool, Technicolor, Pulp Fiction…It’s a psychological ****fest, it’s absolutely awesome. It’s as if you would take Transmetropolitan and make it happen, but it’s not that out there it’s something which is much more real world. It could be like Heat, it could be ****ing awesome. Let me tell you what it is, try and guess.
I’m not gonna guess because I have to go, because he’s gonna kill me. But I just wanna know…
HARDY: Anybody…
First, I love that Hardy name-dropped Transmetropolitan, which is one of my all-time favorite comics. However, I have no idea the property he’s referencing, so if you have any ideas (it sounds like it’s something from Vertigo or maybe even Wildstorm), Hardy became even more vague when he talked about how it might be adapted:
No, but you know what I’m saying. I’m trying to be respectful with the time. My thing is, they have a schedule through 2020 that they’ve announced movies. Is what you wanna do something that’s not on that
schedule?
HARDY: It’s not even a movie.
So it’s something you’ve seen…
HARDY: It’s already… It’s real estate, it’s PRIME real estate which is sitting there right under everybody’s nose that no one’s really thought about yet and it goes TV and movie, it’s awesome. I can’t believe that nobody has even –I know they thought of it but no one has actually blown life into it yet.
So is Hardy talking about a situation like The Dark Tower where the films and the TV shows are connected? Or is he talking about another platform entirely? Whatever it is, we might not see it for a while since the actor is in such high demand, but hopefully he’ll go on the record at some point in the future and specify what he’s talking about.