The Hollywood actor has seen his career go into freefall amid controversy over graphic messages allegedly sent to several women over social media.
Armie Hammer has been dropped from Amma Asante’s Cold War thriller The Billion Dollar Spy for Walden Media, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.
Based on a real-life story, The Billion Dollar Spy was to have Hammer star as Brad Reid, a fresh arrival at the Moscow station of the CIA, where he’s approached by Soviet engineer Adolf Tolkachev, played by Mads Mikkelsen.
But that was before Hammer’s career went into freefall amid controversy over graphic messages he allegedly sent several women over social media.
Earlier, Hammer exited The Offer, a Paramount+ series about the making of The Godfather. Before that, he resigned from Lionsgate action-comedy Shotgun Wedding, which would have paired him with Jennifer Lopez. Josh Duhamel replaced him in the movie.
Walden Media’s president and CEO Frank Smith and executive vp of development and production Naia Cucukov will executive produce Billion Dollar Spy. The film will go into production in 2021 in Eastern Europe.