Armie Hammer To Loom Over Tom Cruise in 'Man from U.N.C.L.E.'
Like so few before him, Armie Hammer has successfully transitioned from being "the Facebook movie twins" to "guy towering beside 50-year-old A-lister."
New 'Lone Ranger' Trailer: Johnny Depp Talks to a Horse, Buries People
Well, a Step Brothers sequel continues to elude us, but by the looks of this latest trailer, Armie Hammer, Johnny Depp, and director Gore Verbinski will be providing some surprising consolation with The Lone Ranger. Like Step Brothers, it seems this too involves a mentally-deranged man burying another, only for the thought-dead one to come back to life; then they become best friends and wear funny hats and masks. Sadly, unlike Step Brothers, Lone Ranger and Tonto do not appear to invoke boats nor hoes. Just trains. So much train.
First 'Lone Ranger' Trailer Very Enthusiastic About Trains
The first trailer for Disney's re-imagining of The Lone Ranger is here. If you like seeing Johnny Depp with a bird on his head, you are going to like it quite a bit. But if you like trains, oh man, you are going to be best friends with this thing. You and this trailer are going to play trains all day, every day, after school, because trains are the best. So says Tom Wilkinson:
Here Are More Photos of Johnny Depp Wearing a Bird
Well, we won't be seeing Johnny Depp in a Wes Anderson film, but we sure will see him wearing a bird like a hat. Here are some further reminders of that in some new stills from Disney's The Lone Ranger, starring Armie Hammer in the title role and Depp as a Kirby Sattler-inspired Tonto. Also pictured below: horsies! And the heavily-implied indication that the bird-hat will change/emote. Because of course it will.
First Look at 'Lone Ranger': Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer Play Cowboys & Bird Heads
As tweeted by producer Jerry Bruckheimer, here's a first look at stars Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer in Disney's The Lone Ranger. Going with the studio's "if it ain't broke..." methodology that has thus far produced four Pirates movies and counting, the film once again sees Depp as a kooky guy with face paint, a headband, and long, adorned hair. But this time Depp wears a bird as a hat! Because he's Tonto, and he wanted to make sure he looked slightly wackier than Mel Gibson's Native American getup from Maverick.
Still, you can see in Depp's eyes he's not too keen on Hammer wearing something as competitively flashy as an ascot--even a purposely understated one. Depp's Ego Raven will soon be furiously pecking that off, so don't look for it in the poster.
'Mirror Mirror' Continues Looking Like TV Movie with International Trailer
If the first Mirror Mirror trailer was the one asserting, "We are the wacky Snow White, not the one with the droopy, terrifying Silver Surfer," this is the trailer that reiterates, "Did we mention we've got Nathan Lane, every noise we could squeeze out of World's Zaniest Sound Effects, Vol. 2, and the twin from Social Network acting like a fucking dog? Honestly, we even got real dwarves actually doing that stand-on-each-other's-shoulders-to-look-like-a-normal-sized-man routine you only see in cartoons. That's how little anyone involved took this seriously."
'Mirror Mirror' Trailer: Other 'Snow White' Movie Shows It's the Wacky One
Last week, Universal's Snow White and the Huntsman trailer showed up and surprised everyone by looking really interesting and fairly beautiful. Now a trailer for Relativity Media's Mirror Mirror has shown up, and since, as the Snow White tale informs us, only one can be fairest of them all, this film is apparently going to settle for being the hammiest Julia Roberts comedy of them all. While The Fall director Tarsem Singh does bring to the film some of his signature lavish visuals, he also brought along scenes of Nathan Lane turning into a cockroach, Armie Hammer acting like a doggy, Julia Roberts chewing so much scenery, and actual dwarves delivering lines like "Snow way!" and "Say hello to my little friend!" It's pretty bad.
If Snow White and the Huntsman is our gritty, serious Snow White, then this is our Joel Schumacher Snow White that casts Arnold Schwarzenegger as Mr. Freeze (metaphorically speaking):
Tarsem Singh's Snow White Film Has New Photos, Still Maybe No Title
Like a visit to a fancy strip club, when watching a film by Tarsem Singh (The Cell, The Fall), the eye-catching visuals are paramount and, if Vince Vaughn suddenly shows up, well, that's just a not-entirely-unexpected bonus. Singh's next, Immortals, has so far seemed a bit lacking image-wise, at least in that it looks to be constructed entirely of dirt and someone's nightmares of 300, but after that he has a still-untitled retelling of the Snow White tale, and that appears to be stepping the visuals back up to the lurid, technicolor get-ups we've come to expect from the director. People, Yahoo, and EW have all just posted new stills from that fairy tale film, so let's take a look and make some premature judgements if this will be a better Snow White than the one where Kristen Stewart sulks around in armor.
'J. Edgar' Trailer: DiCaprio Does His Hoover Impression
Alright, Leonardo DiCaprio. If, throughout Clint Eastwood's Hoover biopic J. Edgar, you manage to keep your voice as serious sounding as it is in this trailer, fine, we'll let Eddie Murphy give you that Academy Award you want so bad. But we're really going to be listening that you don't drop your serious voice, so you'd better fucking nail it. Solemn to the brim, Leo.
Larry David Playing Mannish, Nazi-esque Nun, and More
- The rumor that Larry David was in talks to join The Three Stooges has ended up being a reality, and he's closing a deal to cross-dress and play a nun named Mother Mengele. I suppose that makes at least as much sense as the rest of the casting.
- Guy Pearce has been confirmed for a role in Ridley Scott's sort-of-prequel to Alien, Prometheus. Still unconfirmed: aliens.
- Armie Hammer will star in 2:22, playing an air traffic controller unraveling the mystery behind a strange, blinding light that almost made him crash a couple planes into each other at 2:22. Probably just an asshole with a laser pointer, dude.
- Thor's Chris Hemsworth is reportedly the frontrunner to take over the Snow White and the Huntsman lead that was vacated by Viggo Mortensen and turned down by Hugh Jackman. You might want to take a real close look at if there might be a reason no one wants to take this girl to prom, Chris.
- Bryan Cranston is attached to play the mayor of Los Angeles in Adam Shankman's Rock of Ages adaptation, which is probably a step down from being leader of Euromerica?
Armie Hammer the Lone Ranger Now?
With Ryan Gosling now seemingly out of the running, it's looking like the Winklevoss twins might be who gets the honor of receiving second-billing as a title character, with Variety reporting The Social Network's Armie Hammer is in early talks to play the Lone Ranger opposite Johnny Depp's Tonto in Gore Verbinski's third Depp-fueled franchise starter. If he gets it, it's a meaty role that will make Hammer a known name (assuming his princely role in one of the upcoming Snow Whites doesn't already) and gives the combination of Aryan good looks and an authoritative bro-voice yet another defining victory in success-making. Congratulations, Armie. Your dad's Volvo dealership's loss is the acting world's gain.
See How 'The Social Network' Copy and Pasted Winklevoss Faces
Curious how David Fincher and Friends managed to get single human Armie Hammer to play both Winklevoss twins in The Social Network? Then want to watch this New York Magazine featurette on the process, and all your questions will be answered. The secret, it turns out? Computers! And trippy electronic music:
Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar Hoover Biopic Has DiCaprio, Dench, Hammer, and Maybe Theron
Boy, is Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar Hoover biopic starting to sound like a movie or what? We've already had confirmation that Leonardo DiCaprio will play the titular FBI director, with Social Network twin Armie Hammer taking on Hoover's assistant/lover Clyde Tolson (sorry, Joaquin, you are too fake crazy); now Eastwood has added that Judi Dench is also involved, while Charlize Theron is unsigned but likely for the part of Hoover's personal secretary. Dench's role is still unknown, and a joke about her playing Hoover doesn't work because I already said DiCaprio is Hoover. Oh well. Next time.
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Batman and Wonder Woman Roles Filled by Model, Male Prefect
Good news! Two new cast members have joined Justice League of America! The bad news is you've probably never heard of them, unless you've by chance spent some time viewing their modeling work or knife/weapony collections (respectively).
From AICN comes word that Australian model Megan Gale has been cast as Wonder Woman. Can you believe I thought she was just a model, when it turns out she's a model(slash)actress? How novel! With such mixed talents, she'll definitely add as much to this production as she will to the gene pool. I wonder if she sings, too...
Standing at 6'5", the young and handsome Armie Hammer seems like an ideal choice to play an early Batman. Surely, his prior roles as "Abercrombie Boy" and "Male Prefect" have prepared him for the brooding, iconic superhero. And according to his IMDB profile, he collects knives and other weaponry, and is an amateur magician. So he's probably about as normal as that kid you knew in college who collected swords and practiced magic (i.e., a freakish socio-tard).
With the news I've heard so far, I'm guessing JLA will rank somewhere between Daredevil and Roger Corman's Fantastic Four.
