Tom Hardy Out; Jake Gyllenhaal Offered to Lead SUICIDE SQUAD

By Christopher M.

The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that Tom Hardy has essentially dropped out of David Ayer’s Suicide Squad vacating the role of Rick Flagg, leader of the team.

Hardy originally signed onto the role alongside Will Smith as Deadshot, Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn, Jared Leto as The Joker, Jai Courtney as Captain Boomerang and more recently, Viola Davis as Amanda Waller.

It’s expected we could even more DC Comics rogues in the film, including Jesse Eisenberg’s Lex Luthor.

Jake got ripped for Southpaw.

Apparently, scheduling has become a bit of an issue as the shoot will conflict with his other project The Revenant.

Along with his promotional press tour for Mad Max: Fury Road that would be happening at the same time as the film would be shooting in Toronto.

That is seemingly a bigger priority as it’s being directed by Birdman‘s Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and would see Hardy reunite with his Inception co-star Leonardo DiCaprio.

Birdman just earned nine Academy Award nominations so any project coming from Inarritu is going to have major heat. I guess you can’t blame Hardy for chasing an awards-level movie like The Revenant.

The studio has sent out an offer to actor Jake Gyllenhaal and they are interested in him taking over the role of Rick Flagg, but it’s unknown at this point if he’ll take it.

Considering his fan-favorite performance in last year’s Nightcrawler and his upcoming boxing pic Southpaw, I’m sure fans would embrace this recasting.

Jake also previously worked with Ayer on the L.A. cop drama End of Watch.

Jake also played a convincing serial killer in The Shoes’ music video for Time To Dance.