Armie Hammer has revealed he has returned to making movies, three years after his cannibalism scandal imploded his career.
The actor, 38, who was at the peak of his fame, fell from grace when a series of disturbing allegations were made against him by multiple women, who accused him of violent abuse and harboring cannibalism fantasies.
The Call Me By Your Name actor shared photos from his latest project, a Western film called Frontier Crucible, his first since the controversy imploded his career.
In photos posted to his Instagram on Wednesday, Hammer posed on a boulder with the script and a cowboy hat on his head.
In the third and final photo of the series, he shared a shot of the script sitting on a boulder.
Armie Hammer has revealed he has returned to making movies, three years after his cannibalism scandal imploded his career; pictured 2019
‘Back in the saddle,’ he captioned the post.
Deadline reports the film will begin shooting in November in Monument Valley and Prescott, Arizona.
The film, which also stars Thomas Jane and is being directed by Travis Mills, is an adaptation of Harry Whittington’s 1961 western book Desert Stake-Out.
According to the outlet, it was pitched by producer Dallas Sonnier as Reservoir Dogs meets Bone Tomahawk.
The movie will take place in the 1870s in the Arizona Territory and centers around a former soldier with a tragic past who forges a tenuous alliance with three outlaws, a beautiful woman, and her injured husband. Together, they all try and survive the western frontier.
Hammer will play one of the outlaws opposite Thomas Jane, Myles Clohessy, Eli Brown, Eddie Spears, Zane Holtz, Jonah Kagen, and Mary Stickley.
It has been two years since Hammer was last seen on screen, with his latest credit being the 2022 film Death on the Nile, a movie that was shot in 2019.
The new film comes after Hammer announced the launch of his own podcast, The Armie HammerTime Podcast.
The first episode, which features fellow actor Tom Arnold, sees the Call Me By Your Name star address his various controversies, from cannibalism to his financial woes.
Hammer will play one of the outlaws opposite Thomas Jane, Myles Clohessy, Eli Brown, Eddie Spears, Zane Holtz, Jonah Kagen, and Mary Stickley
The actor, who was at the peak of his fame, fell from grace in 2021 when a series of disturbing allegations were made against him by multiple women, who accused him of violent abuse and harboring cannibalism fantasies.
He has repeatedly denied the allegations however the fallout surrounding the scandal has seen Armie’s Hollywood career all but vanish.
Armie, who is a scion of the ultra wealthy family behind Occidental Petroleum and Arm & Hammer baking soda products, had been under investigation for sexual assault since February 2021 after his ex-girlfriend, Effie Angelova, 26, accused him of ‘violently’ raping and abusing her in 2017.
He denied the accusations of rape through his attorney and said all of his sexual encounters were ‘completely consensual, discussed and agreed upon in advance and mutually participatory’.
Several other women came forward and accused Hammer of being interested in kinky sex and cannibalism in the wake of Effie’s claims.
Hammer, who was at the peak of his fame, fell from grace when a series of disturbing allegations were made against him by multiple women, who accused him of violent abuse and harboring cannibalism fantasies; pictured 2021
The star, who first made his name playing both the Winklevoss twins in The Social Network, was dropped by his personal publicist and former agency as well as multiple projects following the allegations.
Hammer also stepped down from a role in Jennifer Lopez’s film Shotgun Wedding, but maintained his innocence.
‘I’m not responding to these bulls***t claims but in light of the vicious and spurious online attacks against me, I cannot in good conscience now leave my children for four months to shoot a film in the Dominican Republic,’ he said in a statement to DailyMail.
The actor subsequently claimed he tried to commit suicide in the Cayman Islands, where he got a job selling timeshares, following the backlash.
He admitted he was emotionally abusive towards his former partners, but blamed his actions on being traumatized by a youth pastor who allegedly sexually abused him when he was 13.
Hammer’s former partners Paige Lorenze and Courtney Vucekovich then also accused him of being physically and emotionally abusive while they were together.
Armie was not charged by the LA County District Attorney, and has since made attempts to restart his career.
