Armie Hammer’s comeback is selecting up steam after nabbing the starring function in Uwe Boll’s newest movie, “The Darkish Knight.”
Hammer is ready to play the crime-fighting titular character within the vigilante thriller, which is scheduled to start principal pictures in Croatia on Jan. 27.
The embattled actor, who noticed his profession come to a halt in 2021 following allegations of sexual misconduct, lately returned to work in Travis Mills’ forthcoming western “Frontier Crucible,” which additionally stars Thomas Jane and William H. Macy.
Following a prolonged probe, Los Angeles prosecutors in 2023 declined to cost the actor with any crime.
Previous to the allegations, Hammer starred in such high-profile pics as Gore Verbinski’s “The Lone Ranger” alongside Johnny Depp, Man Ritchie’s “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.” with Henry Cavill and Luca Guadagnino’s “Name Me by Your Title” with Timothée Chalamet.
In a latest podcast interview, Hammer mentioned that his performing profession has picked up a lot that he’s began to show jobs down. “My dance card’s getting fairly full,” he mentioned. “That first job that I turned down after 4 years of this shit, I imply, it was the perfect feeling I’ve ever had.”
In “The Darkish Knight,” based mostly on an authentic script by Boll, Hammer performs Sanders, who takes justice into his personal fingers as he units out to search out criminals. Whereas his campaign transforms him right into a social media sensation and a hero within the eyes of the general public, the native police chief sees him as a menace to society and goals to take him down.
“The story of ‘The Darkish Knight’ couldn’t be a extra present matter, and I’m excited to convey it to life with this glorious solid,” mentioned Boll, whose latest movies embrace the crime drama “First Shift” and the forthcoming migrant disaster thriller “Run.”
Whereas the brand new movie’s acquainted title may conjure photos of a sure caped crusader, government producer Michael Roesch identified that “our film could be very totally different from Chris Nolan’s film, so there is no such thing as a hazard of confusion.”
“With Armie Hammer within the lead function and extra nice actors to be introduced quickly, and with an impressive script, we’re excited to construct up on the nice response we acquired for ‘First Shift’ and ‘Run,’ and may have one other robust film quickly,” Roesch added.
Representatives for Hammer didn’t instantly reply to Selection‘s request for remark.
“First Shift,” starring Gino Anthony Pesi and Kristen Renton, grew to become a shock hit on Paramount+ in December, beginning at No. 2 within the charts. “Run,” starring three-time Emmy and Tony winner Amanda Plummer, James Russo, Ulrich Thomsen and Oscar nominee Barkhad Abdi, is being dealt with internationally by UTA Impartial Movie Group and is at the moment in negotiations for a U.S. launch.
“The Darkish Knight” marks Boll’s thirty seventh movie. The prolific director’s record of credit consists of big-budget motion motion pictures like “Within the Title of the King” with Jason Statham, cult favorites “Postal” and the “Rampage” trilogy, and such socially aware movies as “Assault on Darfur” and “Assault on Wall Avenue.”
“The Darkish Knight” is produced by Boll together with Roesch as government producer. Boll is once more working along with his common collaborators, together with DP Mathias Neumann, line producer Boris Velican and editor Ethan Maniquis.
Tunnel Publish in Santa Monica is dealing with post-production on the function.
