Armie Hammer has been having difficulty capitalising on his breakout role in The Social Network, with the likes of J. Edgar, Mirror Mirror and The Lone Ranger have had mixed success. Now he’s switch tacks slightly as Variety reports that he’s signed up for a psychological thriller called Mine.
Hammer will be ‘a soldier who, after a failed assassination mission, finds himself stranded in the desert. Exposed to the elements, he must survive the dangers of the desert while also battling the psychological toll of the treacherous situation’
The Conjuring’s Peter Safran is producing, while Hammer will exec produce.
The movie is set to shoot this autumn, presumably wrapping before Hammer has to go off and promote his next movie, a film version of The Man from U.N.C.L.E., where he’s playing Russian agent Illya Kuryakin.