Tom Hardy Eyed For 'Apocalypse' Role In X-MEN: APOCALYPSE

Tom Hardy Eyed For 'Apocalypse' Role In X-MEN: APOCALYPSE

Bryan Singer is back on board X-Men: Apocalypse, and now it seems the first name has emerged for who he wants to play the titular villain. It's a man familiar with playing comic book bad guys in fact; The Dark Knight Rises' Tom Hardy. Read on for details...

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By JoshWilding - Oct 17, 2014 04:10 PM EST
Filed Under: X-Men: Apocalypse
Source: The Wrap

Tom Hardy is very much in demand right now, as he fields offers for both Marvel's Doctor Strange and DC Comics' Suicide Squad. However, The Wrap now reports that the former is looking very unlikely due to that fact that he is fielding an offer from 20th Century Fox to play Apocalypse in X-Men: Apocalypse, Bryan Singer's highly anticipated follow-up to X-Men: Days of Future Past. It's far from a done deal at this point of course, but it's an exciting prospect, especially when you think back to his take on Bane in The Dark Knight Rises. As both Suicide Squad and X-Men: Apocalypse come out in the same year, he'll likely be forced to choose one or the other and the former sounds more like a sure thing right now. Who would you guys most like to see Hardy play?
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MrBlackJack
MrBlackJack - 10/17/2014, 4:24 PM
Seriously, what the hell is going on?
Abary
Abary - 10/17/2014, 4:24 PM
Hardy is being considered for every comic book movie now.
DaVinci31
DaVinci31 - 10/17/2014, 4:26 PM


noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
MrBlackJack
MrBlackJack - 10/17/2014, 4:27 PM
I'm going to have a brain aneurism if the studios don't come out and address all these rumors soon.
MrBlackJack
MrBlackJack - 10/17/2014, 4:27 PM
I rather see him as Deathstroke though, but this would be great casting nonetheless.
staypuffed
staypuffed - 10/17/2014, 4:28 PM
I'm not sold on Hardy being in Suicide Squad as he's already been a character in a DC property (but I suppose that didn't stop Chris Evans being Captain America after Human Torch)... so this would be cool.
staypuffed
staypuffed - 10/17/2014, 4:29 PM
Oh my God, Hardy as Deathstroke would be epic!
MisterBatfleck
MisterBatfleck - 10/17/2014, 4:46 PM
Apocalypse with Bane's voice?

GIVE IT TO ME.
MrCBM56
MrCBM56 - 10/17/2014, 4:50 PM
I'll rather have him in this than suicide squad. He would own as Apocalypse.
TheBuoyWonder
TheBuoyWonder - 10/17/2014, 4:50 PM
"You merely adopted being a mutant, I was born as it, moulded by it"
"Actually we were all born as mutants, that's kind of the point"
"Oh. THEN I WILL BREAK YOU!"
ALegendaryPanda
ALegendaryPanda - 10/17/2014, 4:51 PM
Suicide Squad with David Ayer or Apocalypse! This is absolute insanity!
niceguyeddie
niceguyeddie - 10/17/2014, 4:52 PM
I always thought he would make a good wolverine if they rebooted xmen.
DaVinci31
DaVinci31 - 10/17/2014, 4:53 PM
I would agree with your statement, but it's all about perception, @staypuffed. I have a feeling, because of the names attached to these projects, the DCCU is going to be vastly dissimilar to that of the one that was presented in MOS, and by extension (due to the crew Snyder had around him), the TDK Franchise's tone.



I'm anticipating the upcoming Suicide Squad film to be a lot more colorful, within a more peculiar environment, and should thus be encouraging as a comic book fan, to see such names as Will Smith, Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, and of course, Tom hardy, be presumably attached to.
Bekss
Bekss - 10/17/2014, 4:54 PM




MarkyMarkRises
MarkyMarkRises - 10/17/2014, 4:56 PM


But damn, everybody loves Tommy
BritishMonkey
BritishMonkey - 10/17/2014, 4:57 PM
Rumours! Nothing but rumours everywhere.
TwiztidThorn
TwiztidThorn - 10/17/2014, 4:58 PM
I really hope this isn't true.
DaVinci31
DaVinci31 - 10/17/2014, 5:01 PM
By the way, the image above, with the response to @staypuffed, should have been a Suicide Squad image.
ALegendaryPanda
ALegendaryPanda - 10/17/2014, 5:01 PM
So what I'm wondering is...

Is this gonna be a motion capture role? Or would Tom Hardy actually be wearing an Apocalypse costume?
JasonBlue
JasonBlue - 10/17/2014, 5:01 PM
JoJo1982
JoJo1982 - 10/17/2014, 5:02 PM
What the F!?!
JasonBlue
JasonBlue - 10/17/2014, 5:03 PM
I want to see an X-Men Musical... They already have the talent...
TheDarkPassenger
TheDarkPassenger - 10/17/2014, 5:04 PM
Nah, make him Deathstroke.
staypuffed
staypuffed - 10/17/2014, 5:07 PM
@DaVinci31
Yeah, I'm hoping that the DCCU feels different to the Dark Knight trilogy (it most likely will). I could take or leave that line-up of Suicide Squad actors, except for Margot Robbie. If WB do not cast her as Harley Quinn it would be a massive waste.

Speaking of DCCU and waste... I'm still waiting for WB to announce that Bryan Cranston's playing Commissioner Gordon. If that doesn't happen, then it's criminal!
JatevinM
JatevinM - 10/17/2014, 5:08 PM
CAN WE NOT!!!!!
JamesMan
JamesMan - 10/17/2014, 5:09 PM
TOM HARDY IS
SuperCat
SuperCat - 10/17/2014, 5:13 PM
Hardy is ubiquitous!
Deschain99
Deschain99 - 10/17/2014, 5:16 PM
WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MrCBM56
MrCBM56 - 10/17/2014, 5:20 PM
LMAO @SuperCat. I see you've been upping your vocab the last couple threads or so.
Desrow
Desrow - 10/17/2014, 5:21 PM
Hardy is such a great talent, I will not mad at all if he end being Apocalypse instead Deadshot or Deathstroke.
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