Gavin O’Connor — who did right by Hardy with the mixed martial arts family drama Warrior from 2011 — will get behind the camera for the presumably soon-to-be-retitled My War Gone By, I Miss It So.
This new project sounds like a Stefon SNL sketch, but with sadness and personal trauma instead of nightclubs: “Tom Hardy’s newest project is My War Gone By, I Miss It So, and this movie has everything — the Bosnian War, paternal estrangement, heroin addiction, and that thing where the psychical scars from witnessing divorce at a young age never fully heal.”
He’s currently appearing in Dunkirk, where he spends the entire film stuffed into a cramped cockpit while frantically evading death from above.
It‘s a brutal, demanding character study, and what’s more, it may be just the role Hardy needs.