Tom Hiddleston's Hank Williams Biopic Has Flopped Horribly

He might be in the running for 007, but that doesn’t mean that Tom Hiddleston is immune to the dreaded flop.

‘I Saw The Light’, in which Hiddleston played troubled country music legend Hank Williams, has flopped in rather epic fashion.

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According to box office data, it made a paltry £17,000 from its opening weekend in the UK.

It’s not fared too well in the US, either.

It opening across the country in April, and despite Williams’ grandeur in the US music scene, clearly Hiddleston’s portrayal of him wasn’t a draw.

The movie’s limited first-week opening in a handful of cities earned it just $45,000, but things failed to improve on its nationwide opening, making an average of just $1000 per screen from 741 cinemas.

To make matters worse, it then suffered a massive second week decline, meaning that so far it’s earned just $1.6 million (about £1 million) worldwide from its £9 million budget.

And tragically, it also sounds like the 'Thor’ star put his all into it too, describing it as 'the hardest thing I’ve ever done’.

“I really sharpened my untrained and amateur interest in psychology,” he told A.V. Club.

“I had to try and study the psychology of this man—his self-destructive instincts, his demons—and get to the bottom of who he was. Addiction is not the problem. Addiction is a symptom of something, and I tried to understand why he was so self-destructive.

“On top of that, to sing and to play like he did, and to inhabit his charisma and his gift and his genius, and then the physical transformation on top of it - any one of those things would be challenging to take on, but to do all of them at the same time was a sort of perfect storm.”

Not for the box office, it would seem.

Directed by veteran producer Marc Abraham, only his second ever time behind the camera, it also starred fellow Marvel alumnus Elizabeth Olsen and charted Williams rise to fame and sudden death at the age of just 29.

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