'Elysium' star Sharlto Copley to get heroic in 'Hardcore'

By Jeff Sneider LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - After playing the villain in Spike Lee's "Oldboy" and Neill Blomkamp's "Elysium," Sharlto Copley has signed on to play the hero in "Hardcore," an inventive first-person POV action movie that will be written and directed by Ilya Naishuller and produced by his fellow Russian filmmaker Timur Bekmambetov, TheWrap has learned. Naishuller is an up-and-coming director whose short film, "Bad Motherfucker," has already earned nearly 23 million YouTube and Vimeo views since it debuted this spring. ...



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