Tom Hardy to Topline Doug Liman’s ‘Everest’

Sony Pictures is moving forward with its big screen adaptation of Jeffrey Archer’s nonfiction book “Paths of Glory”, the story of George Mallory’s three attempts to climb Mount Everest, the last of which led to his disappearance on the mountain in 1924 at the age of 37.

According to Deadline, actor Tom Hardy has signed aboard to play the lead role in the Doug Liman-directed film.

Working from a script by Sheldon Turner, the story will follow the book’s basic storyline, which is officially described as follows:

This is the story of a man who loved two women, and one of them killed him.

Some people have dreams that are so outrageous that if they were to achieve them, their place in history would be guaranteed. Francis Drake, Robert Scott, Percy Fawcett, Charles Lindbergh, Amy Johnson, Sir Edmund Hillary and Neil Armstrong are among such individuals.

But what if one man had such a dream, and when he’d achieved it, there was no proof that he had fulfilled his ambition?

“Paths of Glory” is the story of such a man. But not until you’ve turned the last page of this extraordinary novel, will you be able to decide if George Mallory should be added to this list of legends, because if he were, another name would have to be removed.

Jennifer Klein (Pearl Harbor) and Dave Bartis (Fair Game) will produce.