Webal capone (left) in real life and tom hardy (right) as capone in the josh trank movie. However, the idea that capone was faking his dementia. Webover the decades, the stories of mobster al capone and lawmen eliot ness have been subjected to literary license and hollywood exaggeration. Webgeraldo rivera attempted to prove the myth to be a fact in a 1986 tv special where he cracked open a safe that previously belonged to capone. Webunsurprisingly, trank did some spinning of his own in inventing his version of aging mob boss. Let's separate the fact and fiction below. Webal capone's fictional son tony, glimpsed periodically through the movie as a young child, plays a big role in how the movie tracks his loosening grip on reality. Webbut who could possibly be the equal and opposing nemesis of al scarface capone, the brutal, charming villain who lorded over chicago, perhaps the most notorious gangster in. Weba major element of the new capone movie starring tom hardy is the gangster's estranged son. But this isn't exactly true to al capone's real life. Webtom hardy stars as the infamous mob boss exiled to florida to live out his final years in a haze of dementia punctuated by violent visions of his past in josh trank's. Webtom hardy gives a primal performance as al capone in his final days in the drama capone, a wild but also redemptive vehicle for director josh trank.
