The Armie Hammer comeback is in full swing. Just days after launching his podcast, The Armie HammerTime Podcast, the Lone Ranger actor has landed his first major film role since sexual abuse allegations derailed his career three years ago. Deadline reports Hammer will have a role in Frontier Crucible, a new western that also features The Predator star Thomas Jane.
Frontier Crucible will find Hammer in a “key role” alongside Jane, Myles Clohessy (The Pendragon Cycle), Eli Brown (Run Hide Fight), Eddie Spears (Yellowstone) and Zane Holtz (Hunter Killer), singer/songwriter Jonah Kagen and Australian newcomer Mary Stickley. The film will be directed by Travis Mills (The Pendragon Cycle) and adapted by Harry Whittington from the 1961 western novel Desert Stake-Out. Shazam! DP Maxime Alexandre will lens the picture.
Pitched as “Reservoir Dogs meets Bone Tomahawk“, and “set in the Arizona Territory of the 1870s, the film will follow a former soldier (Clohessy) with a tragic past who is thrown into an uneasy alliance with three outlaws (Jane, Hammer and Kagen), a beautiful woman (Stickley), and her wounded husband (Brown), in an attempt to survive the elements and hostiles of the western frontier.”
Hammer was an A-lister with roles in The Social Network, The Man from UNCLE, and The Lone Ranger before sexual assault allegations set all of that on fire in 2021. Although Hammer denied the claims, and an LAPD investigation led to nothing, it still cost him a number of projects and his representation. He has not featured in a film since Death On the Nile in 2022.
Hammer posted an image with the script on his IG account, which you can see below. What do you think of Hammer’s Hollywood comeback?
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