He’s the odds-on favourite to play the next James Bond, but Tom Hardy will fit in another villainous role before he dons that iconic tux.

Deadline reported back in October 2016 that the 42-year-old British actor was set to play legendary gangster Al Capone in Josh Trank's (Chronicle, Fantastic Four) upcoming movie Fonzo.

And now a local paper for New Orleans,The Times-Picayune, has revealed that the film is set to start production in the Big Easy on 2 April, according to the city’s film office.

The plot is set to cover Capone’s later years, as “dementia rots [Capone’s] mind and his past becomes present as harrowing memories of his violent and brutal origins melt into his waking life”.

He died in 1947 at the age of 48. He spent eight years in prison for tax evasion and contempt of court, before developing the mental condition paresis, caused by syphilis. He spent his last seven years living in his Florida mansion.

The full synopsis reads: "Once a ruthless businessman and bootlegger who ruled Chicago with an iron fist, Alfonse Capone was the most infamous and feared gangster of American lore.

"At the age of 47, following nearly a decade of imprisonment, dementia rots Alfonse's mind and his past becomes present as harrowing memories of his violent and brutal origins melt into his waking life."

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