One of the titles that stylistically rocked the house at Sundance, Bronson by Danish helmler Nicolas Winding Refn, works has a biopic despite the fact that there is very little biographical elements to push the narrative forward. Tom Hardy, plays the psychopath prisoner and delivers one of those eye-brow lifting performances – I mentioned how impressed I was by the relatively new actor transformation with my post Sundance thoughts. I imagine that Magnolia’s buyers might have sought out the project to build another of their Shooter Series slate (is it wishful thinking to hope we see this reoccur for the 2009/10 calender year).
In 1974, a hot headed 19 year old named Michael Peterson decided he wanted to make a name for himself and so, with a homemade sawed-off shotgun and a head full of dreams he attempted to rob a post office. Swiftly apprehended and originally sentenced to 7 years in jail, Peterson has subsequently been behind bars for 34 years, 30 of which have been spent in solitary confinement. During that time, Michael Petersen, the boy, faded away and ‘Charles Bronson,’ his superstar alter ego, took center stage.