Killing Them Softly’s Andrew Dominik will direct the Scott-produced Netflix project, which will star Hardy as a decorated Navy Seal

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Tom Hardy and Ridley Scott are pairing up for a Navy Seal drama, funded by Netflix.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, War Party will star Hardy, with Scott’s company, Scott Free Productions, handling production. Andrew Dominik, best known for The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and Killing Them Softly, will co-write and direct. Plot details are under wraps but the film will be based on real-life events, with Hardy playing a decorated US Navy Seal.

Netflix has won what is believed to have been a highly competitive bidding war for the project, with Amazon, Lionsgate and Universal among other interested parties.

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Hardy and Scott have worked together before: Scott Free produced the actor’s BBC period drama Taboo, which was recently commissioned for a second series, and Hardy featured in Scott’s 2001 film Black Hawk Down.

Later this year Hardy will appear in Christopher Nolan’s second world war film Dunkirk. Next up for Scott is Alien: Covenant, the second instalment in his Alien prequel series, after 2012’s Prometheus. The director has also indicated that he would like to make a sequel to his 2000 film Gladiator.