He was one of Hollywood’s undisputed handsome men, but in January 2021, and still under the restrictions and confinements caused by the pandemic, Armie Hammer which splashed him hard There were accusations of violence, sexual abuse and even cannibalism that ended his career.. At least until now, because the same actor has announced that he is returning to acting and will do so with a western titled Frontier Crucible.
The details of the film are advanced deadline informing that filming is planned Let it start this month of November in Monument Valley and Prescott, Arizona, and one of its executive producers, Dallas Sonnierdefines it as a cross between Reservoir Dogs and Bone Tomahawkwhich is not without its morbidity because precisely this second one was described as a “cannibal Western.”
Directed by S. Craig Zahler and starring Kurt Russell It was a good, slow-cooked movie in which a sheriff and a small group of volunteers try to rescue a woman. kidnapped by a tribe of Indians whose diet includes human flesh.
It has not been confirmed if Hammer will be the main protagonist, but it will have “one of the main roles” in a cast made up of Myles Clohessy, Eli Brown, Eddie Spears, Zane Holtz, Jonah Kagen and Mary Stickley. The action would take place in 1870 in Arizona and in it an ex-soldier (Clohessy) with a tragic past must ally himself with three outlaws (one of them would be Hammer’s character), a woman (Stickley) and her injured husband (Brown) to survive the hostile border landscapes.
It is the case that Sonnier was also one of the producers of the aforementioned Bone Tomahawkand as for the reins of management he will take over Travis Millsseasoned in a multitude of shorts and without special titles to remember, such as Hearth of the Gun either Texas Redin his career in the feature film.
And, on Hammer’s part, the actor has posted on Instagram some first images of him dressed as a cowboy and announcing that is back to activity.
It has been more than three years now and following the controversy, the accusations of sexual violence against the actor and the dissemination of several messages about his alleged “disturbing sexual fantasies”including cannibalism, Hammer lost several papersin The Offerminiseries about the filming of The Godfatheror in the romantic and action comedy An explosive wedding that he had to star alongside Jennifer Lopez. And Disney, owner of 20th Century Studios, had a hard time releasing Death on the Nilethe new adventure of the detective Hercule Poirot played by Kenneth Brannaghtrying to minimize the presence of the performer in the cast as much as possible from the trailers themselves.
More than a year later, the news also came to light that I was totally broke and working as a janitor in a hotel in the Cayman Islands and recently launched a podcast mocking his supposed cannibalism.
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