EXCLUSIVE: Armie Hammer‘s return to acting, Frontier Crucible, will be on sale at next week’s European Film Market with Voltage Pictures.
Oscar nominee William H. Macy, Thomas Jane, Myles Clohessy, Eli Brown, Eddie Spears, Zane Holtz, Ryan Masson and Australian newcomer Mary Stickley also star in the movie, which is currently in post-production.
Dallas Sonnier’s Bonfire Legend is behind the film which is directed by Travis Mills (The Pendragon Cycle) and adapted from the 1961 western novel Desert Stake-Out by Harry Whittington.
Pitched by producer Sonnier (Bone Tomahawk) as Reservoir Dogs meets Bone Tomahawk, and set in the Arizona Territory of the 1870s, the film follows a former soldier (Clohessy) with a tragic past who is thrown into an uneasy alliance with three outlaws (Jane, Hammer and Masson), a beautiful woman (Stickley), and her wounded husband (Brown), in an attempt to survive the elements and hostiles of the western frontier.
As we previously revealed, this is the comeback movie of Call Me By Your Name and The Social Network actor Hammer who hasn’t acted in a film or series since his career was derailed three years ago by allegations of abuse. Investigations into the allegations were later dropped by authorities.
David Guglielmo and Lillian Campbell are producing with Mills. Dallas Sonnier and Amanda Presmyk are executive-producing for Bonfire Legend alongside Jane and his producing partner Courtney Lauren Penn for Renegade Entertainment, and Sefton Fincham. Preston Poulter is executive-producing and financing the picture with Bonfire Legend. Guglielmo is also handling casting
