Armie Hammer to Return to Acting in Western 'Frontier Crucible,' First Project Since 2021 Allegations

Armie Hammer is acting again.

The 38-year-old Call Me By Your Name star, who hasn’t acted in more than three years following the 2021 sexual assault allegations, is set to return with a western, Frontier Crucible, via Deadline.

Filming is due to begin in December in Monument Valley and Prescott, Arizona.

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Armie will play one of the “key roles” in Frontier Crucible alongside Thomas Jane, Myles Clohessy, Eli Brown, Eddie Spears and Zane Holtz, singer/songwriter Jonah Kagen and Australian newcomer Mary Stickley.

Armie also posted an image on Instagram of him with the film’s script.

Here’s a plot summary: “Pitched by Sonnier as Reservoir Dogs meets Bone Tomahawk, and set in the Arizona Territory of the 1870s, the film will follow a former soldier (Clohessy) with a tragic past who is thrown into an uneasy alliance with three outlaws (Jane, Hammer and Kagen), a beautiful woman (Stickley), and her wounded husband (Brown), in an attempt to survive the elements and hostiles of the western frontier.”

The film will be directed by Travis Mills and adapted from the 1961 western novel Desert Stake-Out by Harry Whittington.

In 2021, multiple women came forward with claims of abuse against the actor, who denied the allegations but was dropped by his publicist and talent agency. After an investigation by the LA County District Attorney and LAPD, they declined to pursue criminal charges against him, citing insufficient evidence. Find out what his mother said about the allegations over the summer.