Just last week we noted that Armie Hammer seems to be taking over the film world, as he’s now shooting Clint Eastwood’s J. Edgar, opposite Leo DiCaprio, will be the Prince in Relativity’s Snow White flick and is currently frontrunner to play the title character in The Lone Ranger. If all that weren’t enough, he’s now signed up for 2:22.
The film will be directed by Lightstream Pictures co-founder Paul Currie (One Perfect Day) and based on an original concept by screenwriters Todd Stein (Unbound) and Nathan Parker (Moon).
According to the press release about the movie, ‘2:22 is a clever, rollercoaster thriller that centers on Dylan (Hammer) an air traffic controller who is given a jolt when he narrowly escapes being responsible for a mid air collision between two passenger planes. Caused by a mysterious blinding light that happened at 2:22, these strange occurrences continue and lead Dylan to meet Sarah, with whom he feels inexplicably linked. Together the two discover uncanny similarities with their current predicament and a double murder committed a generation ago. With a grim fate looming, Dylan must solve the mystery of 2:22 to preserve a love whose second chance has finally come.’
Currie says, “From the moment I first read the script, I realized that 2:22 was the kind of project that is extremely rare; a film that is highly cinematic, visceral and mysterious, providing audiences a thrill ride from the first to the very last scene.”
However don’t book your tickets just yet, as the reason it’s being announced now is that they plan to go to Cannes later this month to find financing, so unless they get that, Hammer won’t have a movie to star in.