Armie Hammer saddles up for a western; his first movie in years

Last Updated on November 1, 2024

Armie Hammer is looking to get back on track with his acting career despite the shocking allegations that came to light in 2021 and left him sidelined for the last three years. Hammer would recently admitthat he “kind of likes” the cannibal accusations now. He states on the premiere episode of his new podcast, “It’s wild. I’m not going to lie; I kind of like the cannibal stuff now.” 

Deadline now reports that Hammer already has his comeback project lined up with the Western film Frontier Crucible. The movie will be starring The Punisher star Thomas Jane and is produced by Bone Tomahawk and Dragged Across Concrete producer Dallas Sonnier. The movie is independently-financed and production is set to take off next month in Monument Valley and Prescott, Arizona.

In Frontier Crucible, Hammer is said to be playing one of the “key roles” in the film, although no other details have been unveiled. The cast that joins Jane and Hammer will include Myles Clohessy (The Pendragon Cycle), Eli Brown (Run Hide Fight), Eddie Spears (Yellowstone), Zane Holtz (Hunter Killer), as well as singer/songwriter Jonah Kagen and Australian up-and-comer Mary Stickley.

Sonnier said this film is a cross between Reservoir Dogs and Bone Tomahawk. Per Deadline, the film takes place in the Arizona Territory of the 1870s and “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 recently started his own podcast, titled The Armie HammerTime Podcast and spoke about the elephant in the room with his first guest, Tom Arnold. He would explain, “The accusations are the thing that make so much noise. Like, what makes more noise? ‘Armie Hammer is a cannibal’ or ‘Armie Hammer might not be a cannibal?’ The cannibal thing makes more noise and you don’t get an apology tour in this world. Like, someone says something about you, everyone believes it, and they move on with their lives to whatever it is they’re focused on, because they’ve got their own lives.”