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Armie Hammer is returning to acting.
Hammer, 39, stars in the trailer for his new Western movie, Frontier Crucible, which marks the actor’s first movie since he returned to living Los Angeles in 2024 and began working in films again following a series of allegations of physical and sexual abuse made against him in 2021 that stalled his acting career.
The Call Me By Your Name actor plays an outlaw among a group of travelers in the Old West who team up with a cowboy named Merrick Beckford (Myles Clohessy) on a dangerous journey. The group conflicts with a nearby Apache tribe after they accidentally kill one of the Indigenous people’s scouts.
“A desperately needed wagon full of medical supplies falls victim to an Apache attack. The only man who can guide it through to its destination is Merrick Beckford, but in order to get there he’ll need to enlist the help of a trio of dangerous outlaws hell-bent on survival,” the movie’s synopsis reads. “When they accidentally kill an Apache scout, all bets are off and survival is the name of the game in director Travis Mills’s western thriller.”
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The movie also stars Ryan Masson, Thomas Jane, Mary Stickley, William H. Macy, Eddie Spears, Joshua Odjick, Zane Holtz and Eli Brown. Its trailer released almost exactly one year after Hammer posted photos of himself holding the movie’s script, writing he was “back in the saddle” as reports of his casting emerged. (Hammer appears to have scrubbed his entire Instagram page, save for sharing Frontier Crucible’s trailer, after its release.)
Hammer’s career stalled when allegations of physical and sexual abuse were made against him in 2021. The Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office declined to prosecute Hammer for at least one alleged sexual assault in May 2023, citing “insufficient evidence to charge Mr. Hammer with a crime” at that time.
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Since Hammer returned to living in L.A. in 2024, he started a podcast and landed a role in the upcoming movie titled Citizen Vigilante (the movie’s original title was The Dark Knight.) He also stars as an Afghanistan and Iraq war veteran struggling with PTSD in the upcoming movie titled Night Driver, as Deadline reported in July.
Frontier Crucible is in theaters and available on digital Dec. 5.
