The 40-year-old star may have missed out on 007 after Daniel Craig decided to stay on for one more James Bond movie, but his offers are still coming in for other projects.
Now directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah have revealed they are seeking the likes of Hardy and Channing Tatum to star opposite Eddie Murphy in Beverly Hills Cop 4 as the villain.
Appearing on chat show The World Turns, the filmmakers admitted they had help a ‘sort of audition for Eddie Murphy’, according to JoBlo.
They added that Beverly Hills Cop 4 will be shot mainly in Detroit on a budget of $50 million.
The Dunkirk star is at 4/1 and has been backed by Christopher Nolan – who is tipped as a future Bond director – to star as 007.
He said: “He’d be amazing. He really would.”