Back in March 2010, Up In The Air co-writer Sheldon Turner locked in his directorial debut, By Virtue Fall, which he also scripted. He’s been trying to find the right pair of lead actors and with Eric Bana already in place, it appears he’s found the second name in Armie Hammer.
Fall will find the Social Network/J. Edgar star as an ATF agent framed for a crime he didn’t commit. Sent down to a maximum-security stockade, he escapes to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, he surv… Hang on, no, that’s turned into the start of The A-Team.
He is sent to a tough prison, but doesn’t escape: instead, he uses his time in the stir to become a total hard nut and swears revenge on the person responsible for ruining his life, his former partner (Bana).
The new film will apparently offer a very different Hammer from the driven Winklevoss twins and the passionate Clyde Tolson as seen in the Hoover biopic: according to Deadline, he’s going to be training up and shaving his noggin to be a badass.
Before that, though, he’ll be seen as the Prince in **Mirror Mirror **and is also set to play the title role in The Lone Ranger, which is in the process of recruiting most of the actors who originally agreed to be in the film before Disney shut it down. So Ruth Wilson, Tom Wilkinson, Barry Pepper, Helena Bonham Carter, Dwight Yoakum and James Badge Dale are all reportedly now back in talks to star alongside Hammer and Johnny Depp. With director Gore Verbinski and producer Jerry Bruckheimer slicing the budget down, Ranger is set to kick off shooting in February.