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Tom Hardy disappears into a bathrobe, a tommy gun, and the wreckage of Al Capone’s mind.

Josh Trank posted the first trailer for “Capone” on his Twitter account on April 15, 2020, his first new footage as a director since 2015’s “Fantastic Four.” The two-minute preview skips the Chicago rise entirely and drops viewers straight into Capone’s final year at his Florida estate, where dementia and paranoia have taken over. Vertical Entertainment is skipping theaters altogether and sending the film straight to a 48-hour VOD rental.

• Trank released the trailer via Twitter on April 15, 2020, ahead of the film’s scheduled digital release on May 12, 2020.
• Tom Hardy plays a 47-year-old Capone wrecked by neurosyphilis and severe dementia, nearly a decade removed from federal prison, rather than the younger mob boss of Chicago legend.
• Vertical Entertainment is releasing “Capone” as a 48-hour VOD rental instead of a theatrical run, a direct result of the nationwide theater shutdowns.

A Gangster Movie With No Gangster Action

What’s striking about the footage is what it leaves out. There’s no Chicago, no speakeasies, no St. Valentine’s Day Massacre — just an old man in a bathrobe wandering his own mansion. Hardy’s Capone rasps through scenes in a ruined voice, clutching a tommy gun at points, but the violence in this trailer is almost entirely internal: hallucinations, fractured memory, and a mind that can no longer separate the past from the present.

Common Sense Media’s breakdown of the footage notes the film leans into Capone’s physical collapse rather than his criminal empire, following him through the last months of his life rather than the decade that made him famous. That’s a deliberate swing away from the genre’s usual playbook, closer in spirit to a character study than a crime saga.

The Ten Million Dollar Question

The trailer’s connective thread is money — specifically, a rumored $10 million Capone is said to have buried somewhere on his property and can no longer locate. Family members, associates, and men who appear to be surveillance operatives all circle him, watching for a slip that might reveal where it’s hidden. It gives the film a plot engine even as Capone himself becomes less and less reliable as a narrator of his own life.

Clad in bathrobes, rasping in a gravelly voice, and clutching a tommy gun, Hardy’s Capone struggles with paranoid hallucinations while the whereabouts of a purported $10 million fortune remain a mystery even to him.

That premise turns the mansion into something closer to a haunted house than a hideout, with Capone’s own memories functioning as the real threat stalking the hallways.

The Supporting Cast Around Hardy

Linda Cardellini plays Mae Capone, his wife, who appears in the trailer trying to manage a man no longer fully present. Matt Dillon shows up as Johnny, an old associate, and Kyle MacLachlan plays the physician tasked with monitoring Capone’s declining health. Noel Fisher also has a role in the film, part of an ensemble built to surround Hardy’s performance rather than compete with it.

The choice to build the film around a shrinking, deteriorating figure rather than a rampaging crime boss is a gamble, and it’s one Trank is taking with his first film since the much-maligned “Fantastic Four” reboot. For a director looking to reset his career, “Capone” is a very different kind of comeback vehicle than a splashy franchise entry — for more on what studios still have in the pipeline this year, see The Only Big Movies Left That Still May Come Out In 2020.

Streaming Instead of the Multiplex

With theaters shut down nationwide, Vertical Entertainment opted to send “Capone” directly to VOD on May 12, 2020, as a 48-hour rental rather than delay it indefinitely. It’s the same pandemic-driven playbook other 2020 releases scrambled to adopt, and “Capone” joins a small wave of films — including AVA (2020) Trailer | Jessica Chastain Assassin Action Thriller Movie — that went straight to living rooms instead of waiting out closures.

For Trank, that means his return behind the camera won’t get a big-screen debut, but it also means “Capone” reaches audiences on May 12 without competing for a reopening date nobody could predict in April 2020.