Tom Hardy will play Al Capone in a new film focusing on the final years of the Chicago mobster’s life.
Capone has been portrayed on screen many times before, most famously by Robert De Niro in The Untouchables and Rod Steiger in Al Capone.
Capone, who died in 1947 at the age of 48, had spent eight years in prison for tax evasion and contempt of court.
Hardy has been cast as Capone before: in 2011, he signed up to play the gangster in Cicero, which was reportedly intended to be the first in a series of films.