Wednesday Link-A-Mania

• Tom Hardy tells The Hollywood Reporter where he got the inspiration for Bane’s accent in The Dark Knight Rises: “The choice of the accent is actually a man called Bartley Gorman, who was a bare knuckle fighter. A Romani gypsy. Which I wanted to underpin the Latin, but a Romani Latin opposed to Latino. His particular accent is very specific, which was a gypsy accent. So that’s why it was difficult to understand. But once you tune into it, you get it. I hope.”

• The Hunger Games helmer Gary Ross is in talks with Disney to direct the big screen version of Peter And The Starcatchers, a prequel to Peter Pan written by Dave Barry and Ridley Pierson. [via The Hollywood Reporter]

• Following the fiasco of John Carter, director Andrew Stanton is heading back to familiar territory – Pixar has announced that he’s going to direct a sequel to Finding Nemo. Which was something he often said that he was unwilling to do. Until about three or four months ago, clearly… [via Deadline]

• Amanda Plummer (The Fisher King, Pulp Fiction) has been cast in the role of Wiress in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. [via EW.com]

• The New York Times speculates that China – which has a quota on how many foreign films it allows to be shown in its cinemas per year – may be reluctant to screen Iron Man 3 with the Mandarin as the villain.

• Bossa Studios has released a trailer for Merlin: The Game which will launch this Autumn to coincide with the show’s fifth series. [via Cultbox]

• The Walking Dead #100 sells out on its first day of release to become the biggest-selling comic based on initial sales since 1997 when Image Comics/Top Cow’s The Darkness #11 was released. [via Mania]